[syslinux] PXE looping on localboot

[Lee Eric]

Okay guys, 2 suggestions:

1. Change your NBP to the latest version.
2. Using chain.c32 as chainloader. It's quite stable as I tried in
many different servers.

On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 11:39 PM, Vanush Misha <misha at cs.nuim.ie> wrote:
> On Thu, 24 May 2012 16:22:10 +0200 Pascal Legrand
> <Pascal.Legrand at univ-orleans.fr> wrote:
>
>> > I have seen posts about this problem, but have had trouble finding
>> > how/if it was resolved. I am trying to upgrade from syslinux-3.11
>> > to syslinux-3.86 on RHEL5.
>> >
>> > On 3.86, when it performs a local boot from hard disk, it just
>> > keeps looping back into PXE boot again instead of booting from the
>> > hard disk. It will perform a system install just fine, but when it
>> > switches to localboot after the install, it keeps looping through
>> > PXE boot.
>> >
>> > The file in pxelinux.cfg looks like this:
>> > #boot
>> > DEFAULT xCAT
>> > LABEL xCAT
>> > LOCALBOOT 0
>> >
>> > This works just fine in 3.11. I also noticed that in 3.86, there's
>> > a message on the console about "!PXE entry point not found" which I
>> > don't see in 3.11. The hardware involved is IBM BladeCenter HS21,
>> > with onboard Broadcom gigabit ethernet.
>> >
>> > Is there a solution for this problem?
>> >
>> > Mike Waldron
>> >
>> > _________________________________________
>>
>> here is mine :
>> #Boot local
>>         LABEL BootNormal
>>         MENU LABEL Boot local
>>         MENU DEFAULT
>>         COM32 chain.c32
>>         APPEND hd0
>>
>> not sure it's the solution for your problem
>>
>
> This worked for me.
>
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