[Maas-devel] pxelinux.cfg for fallback to localboot

[Andres Rodriguez]

Howdy,

Yes chain.c32 works  better in most, if not all cases. This is why in
precise we dropped the usage of LOCALBOOT and started using chain.c32:

DEFAULT local
PROMPT 0
TIMEOUT 0
TOTALTIMEOUT 0
ONTIMEOUT local

LABEL local
        KERNEL chain.c32

The reson behind this is we found ourselves with various devices that
wouldn't localboot when trying to PXE boot in the labs.

Hope this info helps.

On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 5:59 AM, Robie Basak <robie.basak at canonical.com>wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 07, 2012 at 07:55:25PM +1000, Julian Edwards wrote:
> > Just so I am sure about what you are saying - LOCALBOOT is unreliable on
> > Intel?
>
> By unreliable I mean that different BIOSes do different things so the
> correct parameter to use for LOCALBOOT is not consistent across
> different BIOS vendors, whereas chain.c32 works better for this purpose.
> That's my understanding, anyway. I hope that Daviey can elaborate, but I
> know he's busy this week...
>
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Andres Rodriguez (RoAkSoAx)
Ubuntu Server Developer
MSc. Telecom & Networking
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