[syslinux] pxelinux localboot enhancement
H. Peter Anvin
hpa at zytor.com
Wed Nov 29 08:27:23 PST 2006
Constantine Gavrilov wrote:
> pxelinux, when given a localboot=... option, will try to boot next bios
> device itself.
>
> The problem is it takes next BIOS device by BIOS order of enumeration.
> That has no connection with the boot order defined in BIOS.
That's utter bunk. It should boot the next device in order of booting.
> I think pxelinux is really missing localboot=-1 option of isolinux
> (return failure to bios). This would solve a whole lot of problems that
> users may encounter when specifying localboot= option.
It's called "localboot 0" in PXELINUX.
-hpa
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