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From 5a0451f82a143dbaa0f75543a75c8e4560ac477f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2024 11:55:06 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 03/10] docs/system/bootindex: Make it clear that s390x can
also boot from virtio-net
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RH-Author: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
RH-MergeRequest: 298: [c9s] Fixes for the new s390x "boot order" feature
RH-Jira: RHEL-68440
RH-Acked-by: Cédric Le Goater <clg@redhat.com>
RH-Acked-by: Miroslav Rezanina <mrezanin@redhat.com>
RH-Commit: [2/8] 2921f4532ad7b0891dea251a4d768776170c6271 (thuth/qemu-kvm-cs9)
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 <fiuczy@linux.ibm.com>
Message-ID: <20241111105506.264640-1-thuth@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Prasad Pandit <pjp@fedoraproject.org>
Reviewed-by: Boris Fiuczynski <fiuczy@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
(cherry picked from commit b8c5fdc6588f82d95807be0eb2215d215a3ba16e)
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docs/system/bootindex.rst | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/docs/system/bootindex.rst b/docs/system/bootindex.rst
index 988f7b3beb..5e1b33ee22 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
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2.39.3