[syslinux] boot from local drive does't work

[Gene Cumm]

On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 10:27 PM, 夏磊 <lei.xia at cs2c.com.cn> wrote:
> Hi, all
>
> I can't boot from local drive on some machines(thinkpad x200 and
> thinkpad x1 carbon) using
> syslinux 3.05 or syslinux 4.05.
>
> And i change localboot 0xffff to localboot 0x80, boot from local drive
> is available.
>
> I find "0x80 is the primary hard drive. The special value -1(0xffff)
> causes ISOLINUX to report failure to the BIOS, which, on recent BIOSes,
> should mean that the next device in the boot sequence should be
> activated" on syslinux wiki.
>
> Isn't the syslinux and bios compatible, can I upgrade syslinux to use
> localboot 0xffff?

Did you try "LOCALBOOT -1" rather than the estimated value of "0xffff"?

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-Gene