[syslinux] gpxelinux local disk boot does not work

H. Peter Anvin
Mon, 19 Jul 2010 22:30:48 -0000

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