[syslinux] PXE floppy, PXELINUX and LOCALBOOT

Michael_E_Brown at Dell.com Michael_E_Brown at Dell.com
Tue Jan 25 14:23:37 PST 2005


Sounds about right to me...

The localboot option just throws control back to the BIOS so that it can
try its normal boot order. If the normal boot order is floppy-first,
then that is what you are going to get. Sounds like you need some sort
of comboot chainloader to read from the HDD and not the localboot
option.
--
Michael

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:syslinux-bounces at zytor.com] On Behalf Of Paolo Salvan
> Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 4:21 PM
> To: syslinux at zytor.com
> Subject: [syslinux] PXE floppy, PXELINUX and LOCALBOOT
> 
> 
> Hi!
> 
> A friend of mine has tried a PXE floppy (build from the new etherboot 
> 5.3.12) to load PXELINUX.0; a menu voice of the pxelinux.cfg use the 
> LOCALBOOT statement.
> Selecting this statement, the PC retry to boot from the floppy... is 
> this normal?
> The user expected that LOCALBOOT would have tried the NEXT 
> boot device 
> (ie CDROM or HD), not the FIRST boot device (the floppy)...
> 
> (note: this has been tried this on a couple of PC...)
> 
> Bye!
> 
> -- 
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