Bug 1164701 - cant select the 10th device to boot
Summary: cant select the 10th device to boot
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Classification: Red Hat
Component: seabios
Version: 7.1
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
low
low
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Gerd Hoffmann
QA Contact: Virtualization Bugs
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Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks: 1205117
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2014-11-17 08:07 UTC by mazhang
Modified: 2019-03-26 14:37 UTC (History)
7 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Clone Of:
: 1205117 (view as bug list)
Environment:
Last Closed: 2015-04-28 09:53:25 UTC
Target Upstream Version:
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commandline (2.84 KB, text/plain)
2014-11-17 08:07 UTC, mazhang
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Description mazhang 2014-11-17 08:07:11 UTC
Created attachment 958186 [details]
commandline

Description of problem:
Cant select the 10th device to boot

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

Host:
qemu-img-rhev-2.1.2-7.el7.x86_64
qemu-kvm-tools-rhev-2.1.2-7.el7.x86_64
ipxe-roms-qemu-20130517-6.gitc4bce43.el7.noarch
qemu-kvm-common-rhev-2.1.2-7.el7.x86_64
qemu-kvm-rhev-debuginfo-2.1.2-7.el7.x86_64
libvirt-daemon-driver-qemu-1.2.8-5.el7.x86_64
qemu-kvm-rhev-2.1.2-7.el7.x86_64
seabios-1.7.5-5.el7.x86_64
seabios-bin-1.7.5-5.el7.noarch
kernel-3.10.0-200.el7.x86_64

Guest:
RHEL7/win2012r2

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Boot vm with 16 bootable devices.

2.Press F12, then try select the 10th device.

3.

Actual results:
Try press "1" + "0" to boot the 10th device, but after press "1", guest boot from the first device.

Expected results:
Boot from the 10th device, like press "1" + "0" guest boot after press enter.

Additional info:

Comment 3 Gerd Hoffmann 2015-04-27 12:49:06 UTC
What is the use case?

Comment 4 mazhang 2015-04-28 06:21:06 UTC
Just found this problem, if it not worth to fix, please close as wontfix.

Thanks,
Mazhang.

Comment 5 Gerd Hoffmann 2015-04-28 09:53:25 UTC
(In reply to mazhang from comment #4)
> Just found this problem, if it not worth to fix, please close as wontfix.

Typically the number of boot devices to choose from is just two: between system disk and install/recovery media.

Something like five (disk1 / disk2 / cdrom / usbstick / nic) being actually used is very rare already, but still works fine, even with room for more devices.

One can use bootindex to put the devices you want actually use to the top of the list, that should be enough in practice.

Finally there will be the option to use ovmf (7.2+) which has a more advanced boot menu and should be able to handle lots of devices just fine.


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