On Tue, Oct 03, 2017, Alexander Hall wrote: > Unless I'm mistaken, Claus refers to things that happen prior to the > boot prompt appearing the first time.
Yes. It's the boot order in the BIOS, i.e., it tries PXE boot before the HD (i.e., before the ">boot" prompt even shows up). > Once the boot prompt does up, > I'd expect at least one attempt. Me too. Does it fail because I pressed the ESC key to abort the PXE boot and the ">boot" prompt considers that keystroke as some kind of input? > Claus, do you by any chance have anything fancy in /etc/boot.conf? No, that file doesn't exist on the laptop.
