[syslinux] pxelinux localboot 0 fails?

Philip Molter philip at staff.texas.net
Thu Aug 14 13:21:32 PDT 2003


On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 01:03:11PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
: > I have a pxelinux I'm working with and I want the default option
: > to be to boot off the local mbr.  According to the docs, if I
: > specify localboot 0, it should return to the BIOS and continue to
: > the next device.  When I do this, though, the pxe agent exists
: > (PXE-M0F), but the BIOS never continues on.
: > 
: > Is this a BIOS issue?  If so, has anyone else figured out a way to
: > work around it?
: 
: Almost certainly a BIOS bug.  Try seeing what happens with "localboot 4"
: or "localboot 5".

I tried both of those and got the exact same behavior.

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