[gPXE] Booting from a local disk fails..

[mwhelton at gmail.com]

This is called out in the errata for syslinux 4.03 and 4.04;

I think it has something to do with newer chipsets; on my machines with  
AHCI enabled, I get the "booting..." message then nothing when attempting  
to boot from local disks from PXELINUX.0

mwh



On Jul 24, 2011 7:28am, Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik at iki.fi> wrote:



> Hello,





> hpa: Did you have time to take a look at this? Details below..





> -- Pasi





> On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 10:18:39PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:


> > On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 05:59:10PM -0400, Gene Cumm wrote:


> > > On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 15:28, Pasi Kärkkäinen pasik at iki.fi> wrote:


> > > > On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 10:09:18PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:


> > > >> Hello,


> > > >>


> > > >> I'm using the following "default" cfgfile for gpxelinux.0:


> > > >>


> > > >> default menu.c32


> > > >> prompt 1


> > > >> menu title Default PXE boot menu


> > > >> timeout 100


> > > >>


> > > >> label Boot from local disk


> > > >> localboot 0x80


> > > >>


> > > >> I get the PXE menu, and I choose "Boot from local disk".


> > > >> After that I see the following on the server console:


> > > >>


> > > >> Booting from local disk...


> > > >> PXE-M0F: Exiting Intel Boot Agent.


> > > >>


> > > >> .. and nothing happens. Any ideas what could cause that?


> > > >> I'm currently using gpxelinux v1.0.0.


> > > >>


> > > >


> > > > .. from syslinux v4.04.


> > > >


> > > > And I just figured out "localboot -1" seems to work..


> > >


> > > 1) It's really a Syslinux question.


> > >


> > > 2) In the official archive, doc/syslinux.txt explains the option.


> > > 0x80 is wrong for PXELINUX; use -1 or 0.


> > >


> > > 3) It's a common issue documented in the Syslinux Wiki.


> > >


> > > 4) Could you collect either the output of dmidecode or sysdump.c32 and


> > > email it to hpa at zytor.com ?


> > >


> > > --


> > > -Gene


> >


> > Hello again,


> >


> > Ok, so I finally had some more time to play with this stuff.


> >


> > Using gpxelinux.0 from syslinux 4.04 and "localboot 0" hangs my server,


> > it says on the console:


> >


> > Booting from local disk...


> > PXE-M0F: Exiting Intel Boot Agent.


> >


> >


> >


> > Using "localboot -1" instead works OK.


> >


> > Here's the output from dmidecode from RHEL 5.6 running on that  
> problematic server:


> > - http://pasik.reaktio.net/gpxelinux/dell-c6100/dmidecode.txt


> > - http://pasik.reaktio.net/gpxelinux/dell-c6100/lspci.txt


> > - http://pasik.reaktio.net/gpxelinux/dell-c6100/lspci-vvv.txt


> >


> > Hardware info:


> > - Dell PowerEdge C6100 server, (latest) BIOS version 1.56.


> > - I'm PXE booting from Intel 82576 GE NIC, firmware version 1.3.64.


> >


> >


> > Anything else needed to troubleshoot the problem?


> >


> > Thanks,


> >


> > -- Pasi


> >


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