[syslinux] extlinux issue

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 03/30/2010 11:37 PM, BuraphaLinux Server wrote:
> Trying again since the mailing list says I have a 'suspiscous header'.
> 
>    I have been told to get linux running on two HP DL360G4p machines
> (ancient rackmount xeon stuff).  Unfortunately, while isolinux boots
> fine from CDROM, and extlinux can boot a USB stick, I cannot get
> extlinux to boot from the CCISS hard disks (two disks in hardware raid
> 1 configuration).  I searched on google a lot, and found (very old,
> many years ago) messages saying these machines have bad BIOS and we
> should upgrade.  We did find a 2007 BIOS upgrade CD iso image from HP,
> but it claimed the machines were up-to-date.
> 
>    1. Is this still a known issue?
>    2. If so, is there a known workaround besides changing
> bootloaders, or booting the machine from a cdrom every time?
> 

This is not a known issue.  The previously known issue was related to
going from PXE to doing a disk boot *only*.

I have not seen a problem with booting directly from CCISS using extlinux.

I happen to have one test machine which is a DL360 G2, but that is way
older than the kit you have.

	-hpa

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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.