Hello, on a somewhat recent machine (Dell T1600) I'm unable to use my usual setup (pxelinux as a boatloader also for local OS - typically windows). The BIOS is capable of using UEFI, but this is turned off. Unfortunately all I get is a message telling me that pxelinux is unable to boot from local disk. The config entry looks like this: LABEL local MENU LABEL OS installed on local disk LOCALBOOT 0 I'm using pxelinux 5.0 Regards Sven -- AMZN US won't let me buy MP3s b/c I have UK credit cards. Amazon UK won't let me buy MP3s b/c I'm in the US. P2P doesn't care. Go copyright! (Cory Doctorow) /me is giggls at ircnet, http://sven.gegg.us/ on the Web
Vanush Misha Paturyan
2012-Dec-10 15:59 UTC
[syslinux] pxelinux: unable to boot from local disk
On Mon, 10 Dec 2012 14:47:57 +0000 (UTC) Sven Geggus <lists at fuchsschwanzdomain.de> wrote:> Hello, > > on a somewhat recent machine (Dell T1600) I'm unable to use my usual > setup (pxelinux as a boatloader also for local OS - typically > windows). The BIOS is capable of using UEFI, but this is turned off. > > Unfortunately all I get is a message telling me that pxelinux is > unable to boot from local disk. > > The config entry looks like this: > > LABEL local > MENU LABEL OS installed on local disk > LOCALBOOT 0Have you tried using "chain.c32" instead of LOCALBOOT (as suggested by Pascal Legrand in http://www.syslinux.org/archives/2012-May/017586.html) as a workaround? LABEL BootNormal MENU LABEL Boot local MENU DEFAULT COM32 chain.c32 APPEND hd0 Misha. -- Vanush "Misha" Paturyan Senior Technical Officer Room 1.37 Computer Science Department NUI Maynooth -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://www.zytor.com/pipermail/syslinux/attachments/20121210/399b57ba/attachment.sig>
Vanush Misha Paturyan <misha at cs.nuim.ie> wrote:> Have you tried using "chain.c32" instead of LOCALBOOT (as suggested by > Pascal Legrand in > http://www.syslinux.org/archives/2012-May/017586.html) as a workaround?Not up to now.> LABEL BootNormal > MENU LABEL Boot local > MENU DEFAULT > COM32 chain.c32 > APPEND hd0Yes, works fine using this workaround. Sven -- TCP/IP: telecommunication protocol for imbibing pilsners (Man-page uubp(1C) on Debian/GNU Linux) /me is giggls at ircnet, http://sven.gegg.us/ on the Web
Shao Miller <sha0.miller at gmail.com> wrote:> Would it be possible to determine the precise error message, so it could > be searched-for in the Syslinux source code?Boot failed: press a key to retry, or wait for reset... Sven -- Das Internet ist kein rechtsfreier Raum, das Internet ist aber auch kein b?rgerrechtsfreier Raum. (Wolfgang Wieland B?ndnis 90/Die Gr?nen) /me is giggls at ircnet, http://sven.gegg.us/ on the Web
On 12/11/2012 07:15, Sven Geggus wrote:> Shao Miller <sha0.miller at gmail.com> wrote: > >> Would it be possible to determine the precise error message, so it could >> be searched-for in the Syslinux source code? > > Boot failed: press a key to retry, or wait for reset...Thanks. I found that in the source code, but also found it a bit difficult to trace the processing of the directive by PXELINUX. The NEWS file seems to indicate something under the 4.04 changes which might be relevant. Maybe its suggestion is worth a try, too. It seems the documentation might be better with an adjustment, because of this. - Shao Miller