Bug 506616

Summary:	EASYFIX [qemu netboot] Eliminate 3 second delay on PXE boot
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Warren Togami <wtogami>
Component:	etherboot	Assignee:	Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	low
Version:	rawhide	CC:	dwmw2, ehabkost, gcosta, itamar, jaswinder, markmc, virt-maint
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Fixed In Version:	5.4.4-16.fc11	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Description Warren Togami 2009-06-18 00:08:18 UTC

Currently if you ask qemu-kvm to netboot, it always delays 3 seconds, unnecessarily asking if you really want to netboot.  This 3 second delay can be eliminated by generating a new Etherboot zrom with the delay configured to a negative value.

http://rom-o-matic.net/etherboot/etherboot-5.4.4/contrib/rom-o-matic/build.php?version=5.4.4&F=&arch=i386&nic=rtl8139%3Artl8139+--+[0x10ec%2C0x8139]&ofmt=Binary+ROM+Image%28.zrom%29&A=Configure

ASK_BOOT=-1 (defaults to 3)

This will generate a new .zrom to replace:
/usr/share/etherboot/rtl8139.zrom

Comment 1 Mark McLoughlin 2009-06-19 16:46:01 UTC

Okay, pushing to updates-testing - please test and update bodhi

* Fri Jun 19 2009 Mark McLoughlin <markmc> - 5.4.4-15
- Disable ASK_BOOT (bug #506616)

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2009-06-19 16:46:35 UTC

etherboot-5.4.4-15.fc11 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 11.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/etherboot-5.4.4-15.fc11

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2009-06-24 19:21:57 UTC

etherboot-5.4.4-15.fc11 has been pushed to the Fedora 11 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update etherboot'.  You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F11/FEDORA-2009-6863

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2009-06-27 02:58:31 UTC

etherboot-5.4.4-16.fc11 has been pushed to the Fedora 11 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update etherboot'.  You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F11/FEDORA-2009-7024

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2009-07-02 05:41:53 UTC

etherboot-5.4.4-16.fc11 has been pushed to the Fedora 11 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 6 Warren Togami 2009-08-31 19:54:40 UTC

The F-12 qemu with gPXE seems to have regressed and added two or three separate delays during netboot.

+ qemu-kvm -hda /dev/null -boot n -m 256 -net nic,model=rtl8139 -net tap,script=/usr/sbin/examplebridge-ifup

gPXE (http://etherboot.org) - 00:00.0 C900 PCI2.10 INT19 C900
Press CTRL-B to configure gPXE (PCI 00:00.0)...

*** delay of ~3 seconds ***

Press F12 for boot menu

*** delay of ~2 seconds ***

Press N to skip booting from gPXE (PCI 00:00.1)...

*** delay of ~3 seconds ***

The last prompt, if you press N it seems to skip the delay but it goes ahead and boots via gPXE anyway.  This prompt seems to be both incorrect and also with no purpose.

In these cases, you have requested -boot n so why is it second guessing the user with delays?

Comment 7 Mark McLoughlin 2009-09-03 12:16:18 UTC

Warren, please file a new F-12 bug. Thanks