[syslinux] HP DL380 G2 does not boot off local disk from PXE boot menu

[Yiping Zhang]

Installing v3.35 fixed my problem !

Re your questions, the system does boot without PXE, and I am running
various versions of RedHat linux using grub, not Windows. The references
to "Hard Drive (C:)" is probably from BIOS setting.

Yiping

On Thu, 2007-02-08 at 21:57 -0800, J.H. wrote:
> Yiping,
> 
> Strangely enough I had a Compaq DL380 g2 sitting on my rack getting
> prepped to get shipped so I thought I'd check into your bug.  I ran two
> tests to see what was going on but my setup is:
> 
> compaq dl380 g2, updated using firmware upgrade 7.50 and 7.70, system
> bios P24 dated 05/01/2004.  The 5i array controller's firmware is set at
> v2.66.
> 
> Test 1: pxelinux v3.36-pre10
> 
> This booted and displayed my normal menuing system, and timed out 10
> seconds later and booted to the local drive.  Grub came up and all was
> good with the world.
> 
> Test 2: pxelinux v2.06
> 
> I downloaded and setup pxelinux v2.06, and copied your config file.  The
> system came up, I confirmed it was running v2.06 (^v) and typed 'local'
> and hit enter, it waited a couple of seconds and than grub poped up for
> me.
> 
> One thing to note, I am using grub as my boot loader and I'm booting
> Linux.  I'm going to assume from a couple of things in your original
> message that your booting Windows, does it boot without pxelinux?  What
> OS are you running?
> 
> Beyond that I'm unable to duplicate the problem with mine.
> 
> - John 'Warthog9' Hawley
> 
> 
> On Thu, 2007-02-08 at 17:17 -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > Yiping Zhang wrote:
> > > 
> > > PXELINUX 2.06 2003-08-22 Copyright (C) 1999-2003 H. Peter Anvin
> > > UNDI data segment at:   00093EF0
> > > UNDI data segment size: 94B0
> > > Attempting Boot From Hard Drive (C:)
> > > 
> > 
> > 2.06 is positively ancient.  Please try a current version.
> > 
> > 	-hpa
> > 
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