[syslinux] PXELINUX LOCALBOOT 0 hang on Dell Optiplex 990

[Gene Cumm]

On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 18:28,  <paul.szabo at sydney.edu.au> wrote:
> Gene Cumm <gene.cumm at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>>> some Dell systems love to put the USB drive as BIOS drive 0x80.
>>> Why would this be a problem?
>> 'chain.c32 hd0' boots the USB drive not your hard drive and might
>> just stop everything there depending on the contents of the drive.
>
> My BIOS is set to boot network first, hard-disk second, all other boot
> devices turned off. Is that why 'chain.c32 hd0' works for me, or is it
> because I do not normally have any USB disks or memory sticks (but only
> the keyboard and mouse) plugged in?
>
> 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

If I recall correctly, primarily that you don't have one plugged in.
I can't recall if disabling USB boot affected it or not.

-- 
-Gene