On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 03:30:37PM +0000, mwhel...@gmail.com wrote: > This is called out in the errata for syslinux 4.03 and 4.04; > > I think it has something to do with newer chipsets; on my machines with > AHCI enabled, I get the "booting..." message then nothing when attempting > to boot from local disks from PXELINUX.0 >
Hmm.. I can check/verify if I have ahci enabled on the affected Dell servers. Thanks for the hint! -- Pasi > mwh > > On Jul 24, 2011 7:28am, Pasi Kärkkäinen <pa...@iki.fi> wrote: > > > > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > > > > > > > hpa: Did you have time to take a look at this? Details below.. > > > > > > > > > > > > -- Pasi > > > > > > > > > > > > On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 10:18:39PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > > > > > > > On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 05:59:10PM -0400, Gene Cumm wrote: > > > > > > > > On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 15:28, Pasi Kärkkäinen pa...@iki.fi> wrote: > > > > > > > > > On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 10:09:18PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > > > > > > > > >> Hello, > > > > > > > > >> > > > > > > > > >> I'm using the following "default" cfgfile for gpxelinux.0: > > > > > > > > >> > > > > > > > > >> default menu.c32 > > > > > > > > >> prompt 1 > > > > > > > > >> menu title Default PXE boot menu > > > > > > > > >> timeout 100 > > > > > > > > >> > > > > > > > > >> label Boot from local disk > > > > > > > > >> localboot 0x80 > > > > > > > > >> > > > > > > > > >> I get the PXE menu, and I choose "Boot from local disk". > > > > > > > > >> After that I see the following on the server console: > > > > > > > > >> > > > > > > > > >> Booting from local disk... > > > > > > > > >> PXE-M0F: Exiting Intel Boot Agent. > > > > > > > > >> > > > > > > > > >> .. and nothing happens. Any ideas what could cause that? > > > > > > > > >> I'm currently using gpxelinux v1.0.0. > > > > > > > > >> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > .. from syslinux v4.04. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > And I just figured out "localboot -1" seems to work.. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > 1) It's really a Syslinux question. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > 2) In the official archive, doc/syslinux.txt explains the option. > > > > > > > > 0x80 is wrong for PXELINUX; use -1 or 0. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > 3) It's a common issue documented in the Syslinux Wiki. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > 4) Could you collect either the output of dmidecode or sysdump.c32 > and > > > > > > > > email it to h...@zytor.com ? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > > > > -Gene > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Hello again, > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Ok, so I finally had some more time to play with this stuff. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Using gpxelinux.0 from syslinux 4.04 and "localboot 0" hangs my > server, > > > > > > > it says on the console: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Booting from local disk... > > > > > > > PXE-M0F: Exiting Intel Boot Agent. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Using "localboot -1" instead works OK. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Here's the output from dmidecode from RHEL 5.6 running on that > problematic server: > > > > > > > - http://pasik.reaktio.net/gpxelinux/dell-c6100/dmidecode.txt > > > > > > > - http://pasik.reaktio.net/gpxelinux/dell-c6100/lspci.txt > > > > > > > - http://pasik.reaktio.net/gpxelinux/dell-c6100/lspci-vvv.txt > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Hardware info: > > > > > > > - Dell PowerEdge C6100 server, (latest) BIOS version 1.56. > > > > > > > - I'm PXE booting from Intel 82576 GE NIC, firmware version > 1.3.64. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Anything else needed to troubleshoot the problem? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- Pasi > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > > gPXE mailing list > > > > > > gPXE@etherboot.org > > > > > > http://etherboot.org/mailman/listinfo/gpxe > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > gPXE mailing list > gPXE@etherboot.org > http://etherboot.org/mailman/listinfo/gpxe _______________________________________________ gPXE mailing list gPXE@etherboot.org http://etherboot.org/mailman/listinfo/gpxe
