From: Thomas Huth Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2024 10:55:06 +0000 (+0100) Subject: docs/system/bootindex: Make it clear that s390x can also boot from virtio-net X-Git-Tag: v9.2.0-rc1~6^2~7 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=b8c5fdc6588f82d95807be0eb2215d215a3ba16e;p=thirdparty%2Fqemu.git docs/system/bootindex: Make it clear that s390x can also boot from virtio-net Let's make it clear that s390x can also boot from virtio-net, to avoid that people think that s390x can only boot from disk devices. Reported-by: Boris Fiuczynski Message-ID: <20241111105506.264640-1-thuth@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Prasad Pandit Reviewed-by: Boris Fiuczynski Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth --- diff --git a/docs/system/bootindex.rst b/docs/system/bootindex.rst index 988f7b3beb9..5e1b33ee22b 100644 --- a/docs/system/bootindex.rst +++ b/docs/system/bootindex.rst @@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ booting. For instance, the x86 PC BIOS boot specification allows only one disk to be bootable. If boot from disk fails for some reason, the x86 BIOS won't retry booting from other disk. It can still try to boot from floppy or net, though. In the case of s390x BIOS, the BIOS will try up to -8 total devices, any number of which may be disks. +8 total devices, any number of which may be disks or virtio-net devices. Sometimes, firmware cannot map the device path QEMU wants firmware to boot from to a boot method. It doesn't happen for devices the firmware