[syslinux] PXE floppy, PXELINUX and LOCALBOOT
H. Peter Anvin
hpa at zytor.com
Tue Jan 25 14:33:56 PST 2005
Paolo Salvan wrote:
> Hi!
>
> A friend of mine has tried a PXE floppy (build from the new etherboot
> 5.3.12) to load PXELINUX.0; a menu voice of the pxelinux.cfg use the
> LOCALBOOT statement.
> Selecting this statement, the PC retry to boot from the floppy... is
> this normal?
> The user expected that LOCALBOOT would have tried the NEXT boot device
> (ie CDROM or HD), not the FIRST boot device (the floppy)...
>
> (note: this has been tried this on a couple of PC...
It's not possible to go to the "next device" once you have booted from a
disk drive (floppy or hard disk.)
-hpa
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