[syslinux] Syslinux + Localboot

[Matthew Holevinski]

LABEL boothdd
 COM32 chain.c32
 APPEND hd1 swap

What the answer to all my prayers, I've tested on multiple machines
and each time it worked flawlessly, I can now boot the local hard
drive yippee!!!

Thank you all,

Matt

On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 8:11 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa at zytor.com> wrote:
> Matthew Holevinski wrote:
>> First thing Monday morning at the office I'll give it a shot and report.
>>
>> The append hd1 option also just booted the thumbdrive again, I was
>> trying wild switches because I didn't know if the bios was moving hd
>> labels around after booting the thumbdrive, like making the first sata
>> drive hd1 or 2 or some other nonsense like that I'll try the most
>> recent suggestions and let everyone know.
>>
>
> For a specific system you may want to use the mbr:<mbr signature> option
> instead of specifying a certain drive; unfortunately that's not a
> general solution.
>
>        -hpa
>
> --
> H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
> I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.
>
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