Boot Options - GUI Update

[Samuel Mendoza-Jonas]

On Mon, 2019-05-20 at 15:51 -0500, Jandra A wrote:

Commenting on some of these from the Petitboot perspective and from existing
BMC's that implement this. I'm assuming based on the terminology that this
is the "boot mode" functionality that implements what are usually called
IPMI boot device overrides - if not nevermind! :)

> QUESTIONS: 
> Does Boot Mode apply to Linux based systems? (SME)

Boot Mode does apply to Linux based systems. I wonder if this was just a confusion of terminology.

> Do we have a way of informing users that a reboot is complete? (SME)
> On the ‘Network’ option in Boot Source, where is the remote source over a network defined? / How is a user informed of it or change it? (SME / user)

If this is referring to forcing booting from the network, then this is
determined by your network environment, not the BMC. (Although you could be
tricky and perform PXE requests to find out what it is).

> What does ‘Default’ refer to in Boot Source? (SME)

I'm assuming this is "no boot mode override", but an OpenBMC person probably
wants to confirm that.

> Still need to understand the value of ‘next boot’ and how it would be used (user)

"Next boot" would be a boot mode override applied only at the next time the
system boots right? Either from a reboot or power on.

> Is 'single user mode' the same as Regular, Safe, or Setup? (SME)

I suspect this is related to the confusion in question 1 - single user mode has
nothing to do with IPMI overrides / "boot mode".

> Should we support boot to PXE? (SME / user)

We already do :)

Cheers,
Sam