Comments on: One More Feature for the Road http://blog.finnix.org/2006/03/29/one-more-feature-for-the-road/ Finnix development weblog Mon, 23 Jan 2012 05:34:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Nazo http://blog.finnix.org/2006/03/29/one-more-feature-for-the-road/comment-page-1/#comment-49 Nazo Tue, 04 Apr 2006 17:13:36 +0000 http://www.finnix.org/blog/2006/03/29/one-more-feature-for-the-road/#comment-49 Yeah. chain.c32 hd0 0 works best for me. Just thought you should be warned that that only tries manually to load the first harddive as perceived by the chainloader, so can fail to work on some systems too. Since it doesn't rely on crappy bioses to support actual standards, it's more likely to work than localboot though. Yeah. chain.c32 hd0 0 works best for me. Just thought you should be warned that that only tries manually to load the first harddive as perceived by the chainloader, so can fail to work on some systems too. Since it doesn't rely on crappy bioses to support actual standards, it's more likely to work than localboot though.

]]> By: Ryan Finnie http://blog.finnix.org/2006/03/29/one-more-feature-for-the-road/comment-page-1/#comment-34 Ryan Finnie Fri, 31 Mar 2006 23:12:01 +0000 http://www.finnix.org/blog/2006/03/29/one-more-feature-for-the-road/#comment-34 Nazo: Yes, "localboot 0" (or "localboot -1", I can't remember which one was the "fail and move on to the next" option) would have been the best choice if it worked. I tried it on 5 machines, and 4 of them failed and skipped directly to PXE booting. Nazo:

Yes, "localboot 0" (or "localboot -1", I can't remember which one was the "fail and move on to the next" option) would have been the best choice if it worked. I tried it on 5 machines, and 4 of them failed and skipped directly to PXE booting.

]]> By: Nazo http://blog.finnix.org/2006/03/29/one-more-feature-for-the-road/comment-page-1/#comment-33 Nazo Fri, 31 Mar 2006 17:24:56 +0000 http://www.finnix.org/blog/2006/03/29/one-more-feature-for-the-road/#comment-33 Ah, I've played with this myself. I presume you're still going to be using Syslinux (well, ISOLinux specifically)? Only thing is, in theory there could be a system setup where the first harddrive isn't what gets booted. You can try localboot 0 and if the BIOS supports it then it will boot the next device by BIOS, but, I find a lot of BIOSes (including my own) fail at this. Probably best to just chainload "hd0 0" and people with strange setups have to deal with it I guess. Ah, I've played with this myself. I presume you're still going to be using Syslinux (well, ISOLinux specifically)? Only thing is, in theory there could be a system setup where the first harddrive isn't what gets booted. You can try localboot 0 and if the BIOS supports it then it will boot the next device by BIOS, but, I find a lot of BIOSes (including my own) fail at this. Probably best to just chainload "hd0 0" and people with strange setups have to deal with it I guess.

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