[Engine-devel] Remove the 'bootable' flag for disks

[Ewoud Kohl van Wijngaarden]

On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 12:31:20PM +0300, Yaniv Kaul wrote:
> I fail to see its value. What purpose does it serve?
> The only 'useful' place is in the run once the boot order - as we
> only define as the boot sequence 'Hard Disk' without mentioning
> which disk.
> We can clearly replace 'Hard Disk' with the list of all disks (and
> let the guest decide) and deprecate that flag ASAP, or we can have
> the list of disks in that list (and deprecate that flag).

+1. It's the wrong way of modeling the boot relation which makes user
interfaces very confusing. You can see this in places like foreman which
has to show a help text explaining it.