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.
> 
> <hangs here, no further output>
> 
> 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
> 
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