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...in a different way (indeed, in the 'legacy' or hybrid MBR). I did take the 16 bytes corresponding to this partition and wrote them into the generic mbr.bin provided by syslinux (enabling the boot flag and filling with 0's and 0xAA55 in its corresponding places). This new 512-bytes 'boothelper' file will lie in its corresponding partition. This file _can_ be sucessfully chainloaded from GRUB (chainloader /boothelper)! The distro's splash screen will be shown and sys/extlinux prompt also, else the distro can boot. If we repeat this process for every distro (every distro which ori...

I'm trying to boot the Redhat 9.0 install kernel with PXELINUX. I've successfully booted previous versions of the Redhat install kernel using the same hardware and PXELINUX configuration. I've tried this with PXELINUX 2.04, 2.03, and 1.75, all with similar results. I have attached the PXELINUX output and (hopefully) relevant data below. I've noticed some other people on this

Hi, all: I can't make my HP DL380 G2 servers to boot off local disk by using "default local" line in my PXE boot menu. For fully automated server setups, I have configured all my DL380 servers to always do PXE boot. By manipulating the default boot option in boot menu, I can control a server whether to install a new OS via kickstart or just boot off local disk. This scheme works