This is called out in the errata for syslinux 4.03 and 4.04;
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<br />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
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<br />On Jul 24, 2011 7:28am, Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@iki.fi> wrote:
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<br />> hpa: Did you have time to take a look at this? Details below..
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<br />> -- Pasi
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<br />> On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 10:18:39PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
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<br />> > On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 05:59:10PM -0400, Gene Cumm wrote:
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<br />> > > On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 15:28, Pasi Kärkkäinen pasik@iki.fi> wrote:
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<br />> > > > On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 10:09:18PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
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<br />> > > >> Hello,
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<br />> > > >> I'm using the following "default" cfgfile for gpxelinux.0:
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<br />> > > >> default menu.c32
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<br />> > > >> prompt 1
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<br />> > > >> menu title Default PXE boot menu
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<br />> > > >> timeout 100
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<br />> > > >> label Boot from local disk
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<br />> > > >> localboot 0x80
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<br />> > > >> I get the PXE menu, and I choose "Boot from local disk".
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<br />> > > >> After that I see the following on the server console:
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<br />> > > >> Booting from local disk...
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<br />> > > >> PXE-M0F: Exiting Intel Boot Agent.
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<br />> > > >> .. and nothing happens. Any ideas what could cause that?
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<br />> > > >> I'm currently using gpxelinux v1.0.0.
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<br />> > > > .. from syslinux v4.04.
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<br />> > > > And I just figured out "localboot -1" seems to work..
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<br />> > > 1) It's really a Syslinux question.
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<br />> > > 2) In the official archive, doc/syslinux.txt explains the option.
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<br />> > > 0x80 is wrong for PXELINUX; use -1 or 0.
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<br />> > > 3) It's a common issue documented in the Syslinux Wiki.
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<br />> > > 4) Could you collect either the output of dmidecode or sysdump.c32 and
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<br />> > > email it to hpa@zytor.com ?
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<br />> > > -Gene
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<br />> > Hello again,
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<br />> > Ok, so I finally had some more time to play with this stuff.
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<br />> > Using gpxelinux.0 from syslinux 4.04 and "localboot 0" hangs my server,
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<br />> > it says on the console:
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<br />> > Booting from local disk...
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<br />> > PXE-M0F: Exiting Intel Boot Agent.
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<br />> > Using "localboot -1" instead works OK.
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<br />> > Here's the output from dmidecode from RHEL 5.6 running on that problematic server:
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<br />> > - http://pasik.reaktio.net/gpxelinux/dell-c6100/dmidecode.txt
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<br />> > - http://pasik.reaktio.net/gpxelinux/dell-c6100/lspci.txt
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<br />> > - http://pasik.reaktio.net/gpxelinux/dell-c6100/lspci-vvv.txt
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<br />> > Hardware info:
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<br />> > - Dell PowerEdge C6100 server, (latest) BIOS version 1.56.
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<br />> > - I'm PXE booting from Intel 82576 GE NIC, firmware version 1.3.64.
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<br />> > Anything else needed to troubleshoot the problem?
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<br />> > Thanks,
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<br />> > -- Pasi
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