[syslinux] PXELINUX LOCALBOOT 0 hang on Dell Optiplex 990

[Gene Cumm]

On Oct 27, 2011 5:45 AM, <paul.szabo at sydney.edu.au> wrote:
> I have been using PXELINUX, with "LOCALBOOT 0" when wanting to boot
> from disk, for many years. Now on new Dell Optiplex 990 machines,
> PXE boot with "LOCALBOOT 0" hangs after message
>
> Booting from local disk...
>
> without the expected "Exiting PXE" message. I tried "LOCALBOOT -1" and
> some other values also, none seemed to work. I tested SYSLINUX 4.04.
>
> Workaround seems to be as per
>
http://sourceforge.net/projects/freeghost/forums/forum/730844/topic/4560984
> using:
>  kernel chain.c32
>  append hd0
> instead of LOCALBOOT 0 in the config file.
>
> Please let me know if you would want me to test something. (Please give
> detailed instructions, I am not very familiar with SYSLINUX.)
>
> Thanks, Paul
>
> Paul Szabo   psz at maths.usyd.edu.au   http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/psz/
> School of Mathematics and Statistics   University of Sydney    Australia

This is not surprising considering the existing list of known malfunctioning
Dell systems.  Thanks for the report.

Hpa, I have access to several of these if there's any test/data collection
(aside from latest betas), let me know.

--Gene