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    pc: Make -no-fd-bootchk stick across boot order changes · e1123015
    Markus Armbruster authored
    Option -no-fd-bootchk asks the BIOS to attempt booting from a floppy
    even when the boot sector signature isn't there, by setting a bit in
    RTC CMOS.  It was added back in 2006 (commit 52ca8d6a).
    
    Two years later, commit 0ecdffbb added monitor command boot_set.
    Implemented by new function pc_boot_set().  It unconditionally clears
    the floppy signature bit in CMOS.
    
    Commit e0f084bf added -boot option once to automatically change the
    boot order on first reset.  Reuses pc_boot_set(), thus also clears the
    floppy signature bit.  Commit d9346e81
    
     took care to preserve this
    behavior.
    
    Thus, -no-fd-bootchk applies to any number of boots.  Except it
    applies just to the first boot with -boot once, and never after
    boot_set.  Weird.  Make it stick instead: set the bit according to
    -no-fd-bootchk in pc_boot_set().
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMarkus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarAnthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
    Message-id: 1371208516-7857-6-git-send-email-armbru@redhat.com
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAnthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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