[syslinux] Booting from HDD

Günther Pfannhauser guenther.pfannhauser at arz.co.at
Wed May 15 08:03:49 PDT 2002


Hello!

You are writing in the docs, that 'LOCALBOOT' can be used instead of/like a
kernel image. But I found out that this only works if the parameter is set
under a 'LABEL' statement. It is not possible to set the DEFAULT statement
to boot from local disk.
Combined with the TIMEOUT parameter it's therefore not possible to boot via
DHCP and if no boot-image is choosen from the menu the system on the local
disk won't be booted because 'LOCALBOOT 0' won't be recognized as a correct
kernel-image.

Is this a bug???


with many thanks for this bootloader
Günther Pfannhauser




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