[syslinux] PXE looping on localboot

[Waldron, Michael H]

Setting my pxelinux.cfg boot file to the following fixed the problem:

#boot
DEFAULT xCAT
LABEL xCAT
KERNEL chain.c32
APPEND hd0

Thanks for the suggestion.

Mike Waldron

Date: Thu, 24 May 2012 16:22:10 +0200
From: Pascal Legrand <Pascal.Legrand at univ-orleans.fr>
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Subject: Re: [syslinux] PXE looping on localboot
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> 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

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