I am having difficulty trying to figure out how to get a computer to boot from it's local disk automatically after the pxe menu times out. I installed syslinux-3.11-4 with yum onto CentOS 5.5 It boots to the local disk if I select Local from the menu and press enter but it never times out and boots localy. The AUTOBOOT message doesn't appear either. Which instructions in the PXELINUX Wiki (http://syslinux.zytor.com/wiki/index.php/PXELINUX) am I not understanding correctly? Here's my files and directory structure: /tftboot/menu.c32 /tftboot/menu.cfg /tftboot/pxelinux.0 /tftboot/CentOS5.5-netboot-vmlinuz /tftboot/CentOS5.5-netboot-initrd.img /tftboot/memdisk Here's my /tftboot/pxelinux.cfg/default file: default menu.c32 menu.cfg prompt 0 Here's /tftboot/menu.cfg MENU TITLE PXE Boot Menu MENU AUTOBOOT Starting Localy in # seconds default menu.c32 prompt 0 timeout 80 TOTALTIMEOUT 100 label Local MENU DEFAULT MENU LABEL ^Boot from the local hard drive localboot 0 label CentOSNetBoot MENU LABEL CentOS5.5-NetBoot kernel CentOS5.5-netboot-vmlinuz append initrd=CentOS5.5-netboot-initrd.img ramdisk_size=9216 noapic acpi=off Adam Beach IT Support Level2 Weather Central email: abeach at wxc.com phone: 608-274-5789 ext. 285
"Adam Beach" <abeach at wxc.com> writes:> I am having difficulty trying to figure out how to get a computer to > boot from it's local disk automatically after the pxe menu times out. > > I installed syslinux-3.11-4 with yum onto CentOS 5.5First of all, try with a recent syslinux version, say 4.04-pre12 from http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux/Testing/ -- Regards, Feri.
I solved my own problem by building the rpms from the lastest syslinux and nasm source. Thank you syslinux project crew for including the spec file. Adam Beach -----Original Message----- From: Adam Beach Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2011 1:52 PM To: 'syslinux at zytor.com' Subject: Does not auto boot after time out I am having difficulty trying to figure out how to get a computer to boot from it's local disk automatically after the pxe menu times out. I installed syslinux-3.11-4 with yum onto CentOS 5.5 It boots to the local disk if I select Local from the menu and press enter but it never times out and boots localy. The AUTOBOOT message doesn't appear either. Which instructions in the PXELINUX Wiki (http://syslinux.zytor.com/wiki/index.php/PXELINUX) am I not understanding correctly? Here's my files and directory structure: /tftboot/menu.c32 /tftboot/menu.cfg /tftboot/pxelinux.0 /tftboot/CentOS5.5-netboot-vmlinuz /tftboot/CentOS5.5-netboot-initrd.img /tftboot/memdisk Here's my /tftboot/pxelinux.cfg/default file: default menu.c32 menu.cfg prompt 0 Here's /tftboot/menu.cfg MENU TITLE PXE Boot Menu MENU AUTOBOOT Starting Localy in # seconds default menu.c32 prompt 0 timeout 80 TOTALTIMEOUT 100 label Local MENU DEFAULT MENU LABEL ^Boot from the local hard drive localboot 0 label CentOSNetBoot MENU LABEL CentOS5.5-NetBoot kernel CentOS5.5-netboot-vmlinuz append initrd=CentOS5.5-netboot-initrd.img ramdisk_size=9216 noapic acpi=off Adam Beach IT Support Level2 Weather Central email: abeach at wxc.com phone: 608-274-5789 ext. 285