On Wed, Oct 07, 2015 at 02:55:30PM -0600, Alan Sparks via Syslinux wrote:> Back in 2013 time frame, as in the thread: > http://www.syslinux.org/archives/2013-August/020655.html > > For doing a local disk boot on EFI systems, the "localboot -1" command > was suggested, to force the system to fail to the (as I understand) next > item in the boot order (hopefully the hard disk). > > I've seen some issues with this in preliminary testing, specifically > around whether the boot order had network first or disk first; and if > the system was set to a one-time boot from network. In this case, I > saw syslinux (6.03) go into a boot loop, just going back to the syslinux > menu. > > Are there any more recent thoughts about the best way to handle local > disk boots from EFI syslinux PXE? Thanks in advance.http://bugzilla.syslinux.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37 Groeten Geert Stappers -- Leven en laten leven
On 10/7/2015 3:53 PM, Geert Stappers via Syslinux wrote:> On Wed, Oct 07, 2015 at 02:55:30PM -0600, Alan Sparks via Syslinux wrote: >> Are there any more recent thoughts about the best way to handle local >> disk boots from EFI syslinux PXE? Thanks in advance. > > http://bugzilla.syslinux.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37 >Appears from that bug report, no new news on local boot. Appears to reference reboot specifically, and is still open... the commit reference there 404's. -Alan
On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 6:47 PM, Alan Sparks via Syslinux <syslinux at zytor.com> wrote:> On 10/7/2015 3:53 PM, Geert Stappers via Syslinux wrote: >> On Wed, Oct 07, 2015 at 02:55:30PM -0600, Alan Sparks via Syslinux wrote: >>> Are there any more recent thoughts about the best way to handle local >>> disk boots from EFI syslinux PXE? Thanks in advance. >> >> http://bugzilla.syslinux.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37 >> > > Appears from that bug report, no new news on local boot. Appears to > reference reboot specifically, and is still open... the commit > reference there 404's. > -Alanhttp://repo.or.cz/syslinux.git/commitdiff/e0ac1d2fdf7d7c58457f3796a12561cce95ca29f However it's not further development for localboot. -- -Gene