[syslinux] LOCALBOOT not working on IBM/Lenovo E73 workstation

[Gene Cumm]

On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 6:23 AM, Stefan Bauer <stefan.bauer at cubewerk.de> wrote:
> Dear Developers & Users,
>
> I'm using pxe booting on SLES11 sp3.
>
> My clients are all Lenovo/IBM E73 Workstations with latest bios.
>
> My config is:
>
> LABEL disk
>     LOCALBOOT 0
>
> unfortunately this is not working. I tried all 5 options to localboot 1,2,3...
> as well as chainloading with chain.c32 like described in the wiki:
>
> http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php/Hardware_Compatibility#LOCALBOOT
>
> It seems that this is a known problem on certain hardware.
> Are there any other workarounds available?
>
> Any help is greatly appreciated.
>
> Stefan

1) What version of Syslinux?

2) Check for BIOS updates as sometimes they have an effect.

-- 
-Gene