[syslinux] [Syslinux] Booting from a local disk fails..

[Miller, Shao]

Good day, Pasi.

Perhaps you'd be interested in joining the Syslinux mailing-list, if you haven't done so already.

Is part of the problem description that the 'LOCALBOOT 0' directive does not behave as expected?

If I'm not mistaken, I believe that 'LOCALBOOT 0' will return control to the computer's PXE boot ROM code.  The PXE boot ROM code is then supposed to return control to the BIOS, which is supposed to try booting from the next boot device in the boot order.  It might be interesting to try out a trivial Network Bootstrap Program which does nothing more than to return control to the PXE boot ROM code, just to find out if the symptoms are identical.  The trivial NBP might go something like:

  mov ax,0
  lret

- Shao Miller

-----Original Message-----
From: gpxe-bounces at etherboot.org [mailto:gpxe-bounces at etherboot.org] On Behalf Of Pasi Kärkkäinen
Sent: Sunday, July 24, 2011 08:28
To: Gene Cumm
Cc: gpxe at etherboot.org; hpa at zytor.com
Subject: Re: [gPXE] Booting from a local disk fails..


Hello,

hpa: Did you have time to take a look at this? Details below..

-- Pasi

On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 10:18:39PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 05:59:10PM -0400, Gene Cumm wrote:
> > On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 15:28, Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik at iki.fi> wrote:
> > > On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 10:09:18PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> > >> Hello,
> > >>
> > >> I'm using the following "default" cfgfile for gpxelinux.0:
> > >>
> > >>       default menu.c32
> > >>       prompt 1
> > >>       menu title Default PXE boot menu
> > >>       timeout 100
> > >>
> > >>       label Boot from local disk
> > >>       localboot 0x80
> > >>
> > >> I get the PXE menu, and I choose "Boot from local disk".
> > >> After that I see the following on the server console:
> > >>
> > >>       Booting from local disk...
> > >>       PXE-M0F: Exiting Intel Boot Agent.
> > >>
> > >> .. and nothing happens. Any ideas what could cause that?
> > >> I'm currently using gpxelinux v1.0.0.
> > >>
> > >
> > > .. from syslinux v4.04.
> > >
> > > And I just figured out "localboot -1" seems to work..
> > 
> > 1) It's really a Syslinux question.
> > 
> > 2) In the official archive, doc/syslinux.txt explains the option.
> > 0x80 is wrong for PXELINUX; use -1 or 0.
> > 
> > 3) It's a common issue documented in the Syslinux Wiki.
> > 
> > 4) Could you collect either the output of dmidecode or sysdump.c32 and
> > email it to hpa at zytor.com ?
> > 
> > -- 
> > -Gene
> 
> Hello again,
> 
> Ok, so I finally had some more time to play with this stuff.
> 
> Using gpxelinux.0 from syslinux 4.04 and "localboot 0" hangs my server,
> it says on the console:
> 
> Booting from local disk...
> PXE-M0F: Exiting Intel Boot Agent.
> 
> <hangs here, no further output>
> 
> Using "localboot -1" instead works OK.
> 
> Here's the output from dmidecode from RHEL 5.6 running on that problematic server:
> - http://pasik.reaktio.net/gpxelinux/dell-c6100/dmidecode.txt
> - http://pasik.reaktio.net/gpxelinux/dell-c6100/lspci.txt
> - http://pasik.reaktio.net/gpxelinux/dell-c6100/lspci-vvv.txt
> 
> Hardware info:
> 	- Dell PowerEdge C6100 server, (latest) BIOS version 1.56.
> 	- I'm PXE booting from Intel 82576 GE NIC, firmware version 1.3.64.
> 
> 
> Anything else needed to troubleshoot the problem?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -- Pasi
> 
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