On Tuesday 07 August 2012 09:07:21 Robie Basak wrote: > Following a discussion with Gavin and Raphaël the other day, here's what > I think should work for fallback for when a node reboots. > > Cobbler in Oneiric (I have that to hand) uses "LOCALBOOT -1". However, > this will only work on modern BIOSes. On ARM, we want this, but > "LOCALBOOT 0" instead, which I have asked vendors to implement to mean a > local boot explicitly rather than requesting a BIOS fallback. Actually > I'll make a note to clarify this. So what I want on all architectures > (except for the Intel exception below) is: > > DEFAULT local > TIMEOUT 20 > SAY Booting from local disk in 20 seconds. > > LABEL local > SAY Booting locally... > LOCALBOOT 0 > > However, this will only work on modern BIOSes. On ARM, we want this, but > "LOCALBOOT 0" instead, which I have asked vendors to implement to mean a > local boot explicitly rather than requesting a BIOS fallback. Actually > I'll make a note to clarify this. > > Daviey says that pxelinux's implementation of this isn't reliable on > Intel and is BIOS-dependent, so exceptionally on Intel we want: > > DEFAULT local > TIMEOUT 20 > SAY Booting from local disk in 20 seconds. > > LABEL local > SAY Booting locally... > COM32 chain.c32 > APPEND hd0 > > Daviey: is "hd0" what you want here? > > Robie
Just so I am sure about what you are saying - LOCALBOOT is unreliable on Intel? Cheers. -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~maas-devel Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~maas-devel More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
