[gPXE] Booting from a local disk fails..

[Gene Cumm]

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