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[PATCH] docs/system/bootindex: Make it clear that s390x can also boot fr


From: Thomas Huth
Subject: [PATCH] docs/system/bootindex: Make it clear that s390x can also boot from virtio-net
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2024 11:55:06 +0100

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>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
---
 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
-- 
2.47.0




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