[syslinux] syslinux hard drive boot problem

[Mathew Plattz]

Thank you very much.

Exactly what I needed to know, and very quick :)

Cheers mate, works a treat


>From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa at zytor.com>
>To: Mathew Plattz <plattze at hotmail.com>
>CC: syslinux at zytor.com
>Subject: Re: [syslinux] syslinux hard drive boot problem
>Date: Sun, 23 May 2004 17:56:55 -0700
>
>Mathew Plattz wrote:
>>I've recently moved from pxegrub to pxelinux (well, syslinux...) for many 
>>benefits.  (memory fingerprint, etc)
>>
>>Its running perfectly, and exactly how I like it, except.
>>
>>LOCALBOOT 0
>>
>>DOES NOT actually mount and boot the hard drive.  All it seems to be doing 
>>is actually return error to the BIOS, which then boots the next device in 
>>it's list.
>>
>
>That's correct.
>
>>This isnt a problem on most systems, but on some systems which have 3rd 
>>party SCSI/SATA RAID Cards, the BIOS only shows the option for "1st 
>>Device" to either, "boot network, boot scsi/raid"
>>
>>So, when syslinux boot, it kicks in the 1st device (network) then when I 
>>want to hdd boot (LOCALBOOT 0) - it returns, then kicks in 2nd device 
>>(where there isnt an option for "scsi/raid", only cdrom, floppy, hdd)
>>
>>Before when we used grub, grub manually mounted the hdd, then booted it.
>>
>>Is there a CVS patch to make syslinux do this isn't of merely just 
>>returning an error to the BIOS?
>>
>
>There isn't a CVS patch; there is an included module called chain.c32. Use 
>it like this:
>
>label harddisk
>	kernel chain.c32
>	append hd0
>
>If you want, you can also specify a partition number:
>
>label harddisk
>	kernel chain.c32
>	append hd0 3
>
>	-hpa
>

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