[syslinux] boot from local drive does't work

夏磊 lei.xia at cs2c.com.cn
Mon Feb 24 20:58:21 PST 2014


I have tried "LOCALBOOT -1" , it still didn't work.

于 2014年02月25日 12:44, Gene Cumm 写道:
> 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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