[gPXE] Booting from a local disk

[Gene Cumm]

On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 12:04, Luis Miguel Silva
<luismiguelferreirasilva at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I'm using xCAT to manage my cluster but, unfortunately, some HP
> machines do not seem to boot from the "next boot device" when xCAT
> creates a gpxe config that just "exists".
>
> So i'm trying to create a gpxe configuration to boot from the local
> disk instead.
>
> I've tried:
> #!gpxe
> hdboot
>
> But that doesn't seem to work.
>
> Any thoughts?

What gPXE version and driver/format?  Perhaps versions 1.0.0, 1.0.1 or
current top-of-git?  Perhaps undionly.kkpxe (undionly is the driver;
.kkpxe is the format)?  I believe this driver and format will have the
best luck when loaded by the NIC's PXE ROM.

-- 
-Gene