[syslinux] PXELINUX booting delays with dual Ethernet ports

[Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha]

On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 02:46:02PM +0200, Ole Holm Nielsen wrote:
> We're using PXELINUX for bootstrapping the network install our Linux cluster
> nodes.  We just got some new IBM 326m dual-Opteron servers with Broadcom
> NetXtreme BCM5780 dual-Gigabit Ethernet ports.
> 
> These dual-Ethernet servers work in an annoying way with PXELINUX when we
> configure for booting from the local hard disk as the PXE-client downloads
> this file from the DHCP/TFTP server:
> 
> label harddisk
>    localboot 0

That tells the bios to continue to the next device. If you want to force
harddisk boot, use chain.c32 instead. (chain hd0, i believe.)

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lfr
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