[syslinux] gpxelinux local disk boot does not work

H. Peter Anvin
Fri, 16 Jul 2010 23:59:06 -0000

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