Syslinux - Feb 2010 - anyone using pxelinux.0 > 3.36 successfully with HP DLXXX G3, G5?

Hello *

this morning I tried to upgrade from pxelinux 3.11 to 3.84 and 
discovered that the localboot stuff does not work on HP DL360 G3 and G5.

The latest syslinux Version I found with a working localboot is 3.36.

pxelinux.cfg/default:

default harddisk
prompt 1

label harddisk
   localboot 0

implicit        0
timeout         250

This so simple, it should just work, shouldn't it?

The BIOS Versions are

G3 BIOS: P31(03/03/2005)
G5 BIOS: P58(07/10/2009)

Probably it doesn't work for G1,G2 and G6 Systems.

Is this a known limitation of the newer pxelinux Version?

Thanks in advance

regards Thomas

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Thomas Mieslinger
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On 02/15/10 09:04 AM, Thomas Mieslinger wrote:
 > label harddisk
 > localboot 0

Fixed it

I have to use

--->
localboot 0x80
<---

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Thomas Mieslinger
IT Operations Core Infrastructure Services
E-Mail: thomas.mieslinger at 1und1.de

1&1 Internet AG
Brauerstra?e 48
76135 Karlsruhe

Amtsgericht Montabaur HRB 6484

Vorst?nde: Henning Ahlert, Ralph Dommermuth, Matthias Ehrlich, Thomas 
Gottschlich, Robert Hoffmann, Markus Huhn, Hans-Henning Kettler, Dr. 
Oliver Mauss, Jan Oetjen
Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender: Michael Scheeren

On 02/15/2010 12:04 AM, Thomas Mieslinger wrote:
> Hello *
> 
> this morning I tried to upgrade from pxelinux 3.11 to 3.84 and
> discovered that the localboot stuff does not work on HP DL360 G3 and G5.
> 
> The latest syslinux Version I found with a working localboot is 3.36.
> 
> pxelinux.cfg/default:
> 
> default harddisk
> prompt 1
> 
> label harddisk
>   localboot 0
> 
> implicit        0
> timeout         250
> 
> This so simple, it should just work, shouldn't it?
> 
> The BIOS Versions are
> 
> G3 BIOS: P31(03/03/2005)
> G5 BIOS: P58(07/10/2009)
> 
> Probably it doesn't work for G1,G2 and G6 Systems.
> 
> Is this a known limitation of the newer pxelinux Version?
> 
It is a known limitation of some HP BIOSes... they have an extremely
severe bug which sometimes bites.  The workaround you mention (using
localboot 0x80 or chain.c32 hd0) is pretty much the only option.

I and Michael Brown were in touch with HP about this and the bug has
been root-caused; unfortunately it is utterly infeasible to work around
this particular breakage.

	-hpa

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