Hi,
today we expericened a new problem with a new PC (having an ASUS UEFI
BIOS vers. 2.17.1246) and our cluster's FAI installation.
Similar to what I had described (and solved by a workaround) in an earlier
thread
(http://linux-fai.uni-koeln.narkive.com/Qd1zAQEJ/fai-installation-on-new-pcs-with-uefi-bios)
we again experienced that we couldn't boot into the local harddrive
from the pxelinux boot menu after the installation of the system
completed. As I wrote back then, after activating the PXE-boot in the
UEFI-BIOS the FAI installation runs fine. However, after reboot, when
the pxelinux menu points to the "boot from the local harddisk" entry, the
system just simnply reboots when the PXE ROM exits, and then loads the
first BIOS boot entry, ie the pxelinux boot menu again. Even using
the "LOCALBOOT -1" trick (described in the thread linked above) which
worked earlier didn't work any more.
A bit of research, together with a colleague (Thanks!), resulted in the
following solution for the local disk pxelinux menu entry:
label local1
MENU LABEL BOOT FROM ^LOCAL HARDDISK (chain)
# request booting from local disk
KERNEL c32/chain.c32
APPEND hd0 0
Basically, instead of using the LOCALBOOT stanca, we are now chain-loading
the first disk's MBR. This works for our system now.
This post is for reference. In case someone else will find it helpful.
Comments are welcome of course.
Best wishes,,
w.w.
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