[syslinux] PXELINUX LOCALBOOT 0 hang on Dell Optiplex 990

[Michael T. Davis]

At 15:54:49.01 on 27-OCT-2011 in message
<CAD0RxenTb_tF-TTOUsGv0WHrMoxY7YrGCUf91gubBdVCDuhx-A at mail.gmail.com>, Gene
Cumm <gene.cumm at gmail.com> wrote:

>On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 07:07, Gene Cumm <gene.cumm at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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
>
>Also, be warned that some Dell systems love to put the USB drive as BIOS
>drive 0x80.

	OK, I'll bite.  Why would this be a problem?

>
>-- 
>-Gene

Regards,
Mike