Hi... I was wondering (I do not have the sources at hand now, but I know it should not be too difficult to add) whether it is possible for PXELINUX to do a "real" local boot - that is - load the right MBR/boot sector itself from disk and run it, instead of just exiting from the PXE boot (failing boot), which normally will cause the BIOS to choose the next boot device, but is not always the same as a local disk boot. Cheers, -- Tom -- Tom Alsberg - hacker (being the best description fitting this space) Web page: http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~alsbergt/ DISCLAIMER: The above message does not even necessarily represent what my fingers have typed on the keyboard, save anything further.
> I was wondering (I do not have the sources at hand now, but I know it > should not be too difficult to add) whether it is possible for > PXELINUX to do a "real" local boot - that is - load the right MBR/boot > sector itself from disk and run it, instead of just exiting from the > PXE boot (failing boot), which normally will cause the BIOS to choose > the next boot device, but is not always the same as a local disk boot.use chain.c32 (it is part of syslinux) Alex
Tom Alsberg wrote:> Hi... > > I was wondering (I do not have the sources at hand now, but I know it > should not be too difficult to add) whether it is possible for > PXELINUX to do a "real" local boot - that is - load the right MBR/boot > sector itself from disk and run it, instead of just exiting from the > PXE boot (failing boot), which normally will cause the BIOS to choose > the next boot device, but is not always the same as a local disk boot. >chain.c32 is your friend. -hpa
El Viernes, 30 de Septiembre de 2005 16:57, Tom Alsberg escribi?:> Hi... > > I was wondering (I do not have the sources at hand now, but I know it > should not be too difficult to add) whether it is possible for > PXELINUX to do a "real" local boot - that is - load the right MBR/boot > sector itself from disk and run it, instead of just exiting from the > PXE boot (failing boot), which normally will cause the BIOS to choose > the next boot device, but is not always the same as a local disk boot.chainload with memdisk a floppy image that do that. WFM -- Gustavo Guillermo P?rez Compunauta uLinux www.compunauta.com