Hi! A friend of mine has tried a PXE floppy (build from the new etherboot 5.3.12) to load PXELINUX.0; a menu voice of the pxelinux.cfg use the LOCALBOOT statement. Selecting this statement, the PC retry to boot from the floppy... is this normal? The user expected that LOCALBOOT would have tried the NEXT boot device (ie CDROM or HD), not the FIRST boot device (the floppy)... (note: this has been tried this on a couple of PC...) Bye! -- Paolo Salvan _______________________________ X v i s i o n Via Vigonovese 123A 35127 - Padova - Italy +39 049 8709427 tel +39 049 8709426 fax www.xvision.it
Michael_E_Brown at Dell.com
2005-Jan-25 22:23 UTC
[syslinux] PXE floppy, PXELINUX and LOCALBOOT
Sounds about right to me... The localboot option just throws control back to the BIOS so that it can try its normal boot order. If the normal boot order is floppy-first, then that is what you are going to get. Sounds like you need some sort of comboot chainloader to read from the HDD and not the localboot option. -- Michael> -----Original Message----- > From: syslinux-bounces at zytor.com > [mailto:syslinux-bounces at zytor.com] On Behalf Of Paolo Salvan > Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 4:21 PM > To: syslinux at zytor.com > Subject: [syslinux] PXE floppy, PXELINUX and LOCALBOOT > > > Hi! > > A friend of mine has tried a PXE floppy (build from the new etherboot > 5.3.12) to load PXELINUX.0; a menu voice of the pxelinux.cfg use the > LOCALBOOT statement. > Selecting this statement, the PC retry to boot from the floppy... is > this normal? > The user expected that LOCALBOOT would have tried the NEXT > boot device > (ie CDROM or HD), not the FIRST boot device (the floppy)... > > (note: this has been tried this on a couple of PC...) > > Bye! > > -- > Paolo Salvan > _______________________________ > X v i s i o n > Via Vigonovese 123A > 35127 - Padova - Italy > +39 049 8709427 tel > +39 049 8709426 fax > www.xvision.it > > _______________________________________________ > SYSLINUX mailing list > Submissions to SYSLINUX at zytor.com > Unsubscribe or set options at: > http://www.zytor.com/mailman/listinfo/syslinux > Please do not send private replies to mailing list traffic. > >
> A friend of mine has tried a PXE floppy (build from the new etherboot > 5.3.12) to load PXELINUX.0; a menu voice of the pxelinux.cfg use the > LOCALBOOT statement. > Selecting this statement, the PC retry to boot from the floppy... is > this normal? > The user expected that LOCALBOOT would have tried the NEXT boot device > (ie CDROM or HD), not the FIRST boot device (the floppy)...Not an answer to your question but maybe interesting for you: Are you aware of chain.c32? You can boot from your hard disk with this com32 module. Cheers Alex
Paolo Salvan wrote:> Hi! > > A friend of mine has tried a PXE floppy (build from the new etherboot > 5.3.12) to load PXELINUX.0; a menu voice of the pxelinux.cfg use the > LOCALBOOT statement. > Selecting this statement, the PC retry to boot from the floppy... is > this normal? > The user expected that LOCALBOOT would have tried the NEXT boot device > (ie CDROM or HD), not the FIRST boot device (the floppy)... > > (note: this has been tried this on a couple of PC...It's not possible to go to the "next device" once you have booted from a disk drive (floppy or hard disk.) -hpa
Michael_E_Brown at Dell.com wrote:> Sounds about right to me... > > The localboot option just throws control back to the BIOS so that it can > try its normal boot order. If the normal boot order is floppy-first, > then that is what you are going to get. Sounds like you need some sort > of comboot chainloader to read from the HDD and not the localboot > option.This is of course exactly what chain.c32 is for. label hd0 kernel chain.c32 append hd0 -hpa