[syslinux] ONTIMEOUT LOCALBOOT -1 and menu.c32 -

[Nazo]

On 12/27/05, Nathaniel Griswold <griswold at upl.cs.wisc.edu> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 27, 2005 at 01:55:24PM +0100, Harald_Jensas at Dell.com wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am having some problem with LOCALBOOT and menu.c32
> > Anyone who can see what I am doing wrong?
>
> what is the desired behavior?
>
> -nate
>
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Like when he selects "Boot from harddrive" from the menu, the
ontimeout should boot the harddrive correctly rather than reloading
the menu.

If I had to hazard a guess, I'd say that what's going on here is that
menu.c32 actually supports and handles localboot.  Last I checked,
syslinux & extlinux don't actually support localboot.  Mind you, "last
I checked" applies to a good number of versions ago when it was in the
todo list, and perhaps it has been implemented by now?  Anyway, so
far, the only sure-fire way I've ever found to boot the harddrive is
to use chain.c32.  It's not 100% perfect since some systems out there
don't boot from the "first harddrive" (in particular SATA I think
would show up more along the lines as hd4 if you turn on IDE
emulation, or perhaps not at all if you don't turn it on.)  At least
it can be manually specified while localboot just simply fails on many
bioses (such as one of my systems.)