On 19 October 2012 15:21, Anthony Liguori <[email protected]> wrote: > David Gibson <[email protected]> writes: >> That's true to an extent. However, I vehemently disagree that it's >> arbitrary which one gets the new option. Neither -boot nor bootindex= >> alter any persistent data now and they should not suddenly start doing >> so. > > That's not true. > > For the PC, -boot modifies the CMOS memory. If we persisted CMOS, then > -boot would cause a persistent modification in the boot order.
That would be a bug you'd need to fix if we persisted CMOS :-) -- PMM
