[syslinux] pxelinux: unable to boot from local disk

[Vanush Misha Paturyan]

On Mon, 10 Dec 2012 14:47:57 +0000 (UTC) Sven Geggus
<lists at fuchsschwanzdomain.de> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> on a somewhat recent machine (Dell T1600) I'm unable to use my usual
> setup (pxelinux as a boatloader also for local OS - typically
> windows). The BIOS is capable of using UEFI, but this is turned off.
> 
> Unfortunately all I get is a message telling me that pxelinux is
> unable to boot from local disk.
> 
> The config entry looks like this:
> 
> LABEL local
> MENU LABEL OS installed on local disk
> LOCALBOOT 0

Have you tried using "chain.c32" instead of LOCALBOOT (as suggested by
Pascal Legrand in
http://www.syslinux.org/archives/2012-May/017586.html) as a workaround?

LABEL BootNormal
MENU LABEL Boot local
MENU DEFAULT
COM32 chain.c32
APPEND hd0

Misha.



-- 
Vanush "Misha" Paturyan
Senior Technical Officer
Room 1.37
Computer Science Department
NUI Maynooth
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