[syslinux] PXE floppy, PXELINUX and LOCALBOOT

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Tue Jan 25 14:34:49 PST 2005


Michael_E_Brown at Dell.com wrote:
> 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.

This is of course exactly what chain.c32 is for.

label hd0
	kernel chain.c32
	append hd0

	-hpa




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