[syslinux] EFI PXE local boot - current state?

[Geert Stappers]

On Wed, Oct 07, 2015 at 02:55:30PM -0600, Alan Sparks via Syslinux wrote:
> Back in 2013 time frame, as in the thread:
> http://www.syslinux.org/archives/2013-August/020655.html
> 
> For doing a local disk boot on EFI systems, the "localboot -1" command
> was suggested, to force the system to fail to the (as I understand) next
> item in the boot order (hopefully the hard disk).
> 
> I've seen some issues with this in preliminary testing, specifically
> around whether the boot order had network first or disk first; and if
> the system was set to a one-time boot from network.   In this case, I
> saw syslinux (6.03) go into a boot loop, just going back to the syslinux
> menu.
> 
> Are there any more recent thoughts about the best way to handle local
> disk boots from EFI syslinux PXE?   Thanks in advance.

http://bugzilla.syslinux.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37


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