pxe localboot fix for HP proliants

[Vreman, Peter]

There are problems with recent versions of syslinux and HP Proliants failing to LOCALBOOT
(the HP Proliants hang after pxelinux). 

Below is a workaround that works. Instead of using:

label localboot
	localboot 0

you need to use:
	
label localboot
	com32 chain.c32
	append hd0


This workaround is written in
http://syslinux.zytor.com/archives/2009-February/011532.html


Can the default cobbler pxe templates be adapted to use the chain.c32 approach?

Regards,
Peter



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[Scott Henson]

On Wed, 7 Jul 2010 13:27:53 +0200, "Vreman, Peter"
<peter.vreman(a)acision.com&gt; wrote:
>  There are problems with recent versions of syslinux and HP Proliants
> failing to LOCALBOOT (the HP Proliants hang after pxelinux). 
>  
>  Below is a workaround that works. Instead of using:
>  
>  label localboot
>  	localboot 0
>  
>  you need to use:
>  	
>  label localboot
>  	com32 chain.c32
>  	append hd0
>  
>  
>  This workaround is written in
> http://syslinux.zytor.com/archives/2009-February/011532.html
>  
>  
>  Can the default cobbler pxe templates be adapted to use the chain.c32 approach? 
I believe you would have to modify /etc/cobbler/pxe/pxelocal.template.
Then cobbler sync and you should have what you are looking for.

I don't know if we would change this as the default in cobbler.  That
message seems to say there are some problems when using that.  But
changing it on your local system shouldn't be a problem.

-- 
Scott Henson
Red Hat CIS Operator
WVU Alum BSAE/BSME

[Glenn Bailey]

>  > Below is a workaround that works. Instead of using:
>  >
>  > label localboot
>  > 	localboot 0
>  >
>  > you need to use:
>  >
>  > label localboot
>  > 	com32 chain.c32
>  > 	append hd0
>  >
>  >
>  > This workaround is written in
>  http://syslinux.zytor.com/archives/2009-February/011532.html
>  >
>  >
>  > Can the default cobbler pxe templates be adapted to use the chain.c32
>  approach?
>  
>  I believe you would have to modify /etc/cobbler/pxe/pxelocal.template.
>  Then cobbler sync and you should have what you are looking for.
>  
>  I don't know if we would change this as the default in cobbler.  That
>  message seems to say there are some problems when using that.  But
>  changing it on your local system shouldn't be a problem. 
I simply downloaded and compiled an older version of syslinux, syslinux-3.52
to be exact. Doesn't work for some folks as some features are missing in this
version that, but it works fine in my environment.