[syslinux] Localboot option in syslinux and extlinux

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Fri Nov 10 15:05:26 PST 2006


n schembr wrote:
> I just tried to boot extlinux off of /dev/sdb and use the option localboot 0x80.  I was hoping to see syslinux for the second time as the system loaded the master boot rec from /dev/sda.
> 
> Why is this option only in pxelinux and isolinux?

Because there are a few special operations that are available to PXE and 
El Torito boots that do not apply to disk boots.

Use chain.c32.

	-hpa




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