[syslinux] PXE looping on localboot

Lee Eric openlinuxsource at gmail.com
Sat May 26 00:38:29 PDT 2012


On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 7:00 AM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa at zytor.com> wrote:
> On 05/24/2012 07:28 AM, Vanush Misha Paturyan wrote:
>>
>> My workaround for this problem was not to upgrade to 3.86. On my
>> hardware (IBM System x3550 -[797841Y]) the problem appeared in
>> 3.85_pre10. (It still exists in 4.10pre20).
>>
>
> I have heard lots of problems with recent IBM BIOSes.
Totally agreed. IBM x3850X5 and IBM x3690X5 even cannot boot hard disk
up by using GRUB in legacy mode. Only EFI GRUB and Syslinux are
available as boot loaders.
>
> A "git bisect" would be interesting...
>
>        -hpa
>
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> H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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>
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