Syslinux - May 2002 - Booting from HDD

Hello!

You are writing in the docs, that 'LOCALBOOT' can be used instead
of/like a
kernel image. But I found out that this only works if the parameter is set
under a 'LABEL' statement. It is not possible to set the DEFAULT
statement
to boot from local disk.
Combined with the TIMEOUT parameter it's therefore not possible to boot via
DHCP and if no boot-image is choosen from the menu the system on the local
disk won't be booted because 'LOCALBOOT 0' won't be recognized
as a correct
kernel-image.

Is this a bug???


with many thanks for this bootloader
G?nther Pfannhauser

A kernel statement only works under a label statement, so if the docs
say localboot works like a kernel image, I would expect it to appear
under a label.  I don't see any problem with the docs.

this works for me.

    DEFAULT local
    TIMEOUT 100
    PROMPT 1
    DISPLAY pxelinux.cfg/f0.txt
    LABEL nfs
	KERNEL kernel
	APPEND root=/dev/nfs ip=dhcp
    LABEL local
	LOCALBOOT 0

On Wed, 15 May 2002, G?nther Pfannhauser wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> You are writing in the docs, that 'LOCALBOOT' can be used instead
of/like a
> kernel image. But I found out that this only works if the parameter is set
> under a 'LABEL' statement. It is not possible to set the DEFAULT
statement
> to boot from local disk.
> Combined with the TIMEOUT parameter it's therefore not possible to boot
via
> DHCP and if no boot-image is choosen from the menu the system on the local
> disk won't be booted because 'LOCALBOOT 0' won't be
recognized as a correct
> kernel-image.
> 
> Is this a bug???
> 
> 
> with many thanks for this bootloader
> G?nther Pfannhauser