I have a lab in which I keep all my computers set to try network boot first that way it is easy to put a file in pxelinux.cfg of the mac address of a faulty machine and have it build itself or run diagnostics. Up till recently I used pxelinux.0. I have been trying out gpxelinux so that I can use its http fuctionality to download initrd images faster to boot. I just discovered that its local boot doesn't work the same as pxelinux.0 Here is my entry in pxelinux.cfg/default LABEL local MENU LABEL local boot LOCALBOOT 0 this worked in pxelinux.0 but not in gpxelinux.0
On 07/16/2010 04:36 PM, Jeff Sadowski wrote:> I have a lab in which I keep all my computers set to try network boot > first that way it is easy to put a file in pxelinux.cfg of the mac > address of a faulty machine and have it build itself or run > diagnostics. > > Up till recently I used pxelinux.0. I have been trying out gpxelinux > so that I can use its http fuctionality to download initrd images > faster to boot. I just discovered that its local boot doesn't work the > same as pxelinux.0 > Here is my entry in pxelinux.cfg/default > > LABEL local > MENU LABEL local boot > LOCALBOOT 0 > > this worked in pxelinux.0 but not in gpxelinux.0 >It's supposed to work, at least in the latest versions (3.86, 4.01). You didn't mention anything about which version you are using, nor anything about the hardware. -hpa
On 07/19/2010 03:27 PM, Jeff Sadowski wrote:> > The VMWare machine worked flawless with a disk however the HP Laptops did not. > The HP Laptops one is a nw8440 the others are hp 6715b and I have a > few others I need to test > The laptops get to > Booting local disk... > They don't get to > PXE-M0F: Exiting Intel PXE ROM. > Like the vmware machines do > > Using pxelinux from 4.01 on the HPs I get > PXE-M0F: Exiting HP PXE ROM. >OK, so this is HP brokenness, quite possibly inside gPXE, and/or in the interaction between gPXE and Syslinux. a) This really belongs on the gPXE and Syslinux mailing lists. b) Does "keeppxe" work? c) Do older versions of gpxelinux.0 work? -hpa