[syslinux] Problems with PXELINUX falling through to localboot on a HP Proliant DL385

[H. Peter Anvin]

Padwa, Daniel wrote:
> It's weird.
> 
> PXE'ing directly into pxelinux.0 works fine.  Menu.c32 activates, and
> can happily do chain.c32
> 
> PXE'ing into gPXE and then chaining to pxelinux.0, or using gpxelinux.0
> directly from PXE, yields a weird state where once I select the menu
> option for chain32, things seem to hang for about 7 minutes, after which
> I get an error about an inability to read the master boot record.
> 
> I'm getting the feeling that GPXE and the bios are not getting along
> well :-(
> 

Well, it's hard to get along well with a BIOS which uses random memory
which doesn't belong to it...

	-hpa

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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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