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| author | Gene Cumm <gene.cumm@gmail.com> | 2011-02-28 12:56:14 -0500 |
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| committer | Gene Cumm <gene.cumm@gmail.com> | 2011-02-28 12:56:14 -0500 |
| commit | 844e23ab45df8396cabdeff43763fa95206bb672 (patch) | |
| tree | a3798341548e0aec5ddac48eb639a7830455019d /doc | |
| parent | dd8849a2b0b1af8b76f04e7db2fd81bbb27c56f4 (diff) | |
| download | syslinux-844e23ab45df8396cabdeff43763fa95206bb672.tar.gz | |
doc/syslinux.txt: LOCALBOOT update to reflect current state
All variants now accept LOCALBOOT -1 as a fail over; Combine and reflow
the PXELINUX paragraph.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/syslinux.txt | 21 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/doc/syslinux.txt b/doc/syslinux.txt index f5e1898c..b6d3ec2d 100644 --- a/doc/syslinux.txt +++ b/doc/syslinux.txt @@ -241,15 +241,17 @@ LABEL label Append nothing. APPEND with a single hyphen as argument in a LABEL section can be used to override a global APPEND. - LOCALBOOT type [ISOLINUX, PXELINUX] - On PXELINUX, specifying "LOCALBOOT 0" instead of a "KERNEL" - option means invoking this particular label will cause a local - disk boot instead of booting a kernel. - - The argument 0 means perform a normal boot. The argument 4 + LOCALBOOT type + Attempt a different local boot method. The special value -1 + causes the boot loader to report failure to the BIOS, which, on + recent BIOSes, should mean that the next boot device in the + boot sequence should be activated. Values other than those + documented may produce undesired results. + + On PXELINUX, "type" 0 means perform a normal boot. "type" 4 will perform a local boot with the Universal Network Driver Interface (UNDI) driver still resident in memory. Finally, - the argument 5 will perform a local boot with the entire PXE + "type" 5 will perform a local boot with the entire PXE stack, including the UNDI driver, still resident in memory. All other values are undefined. If you don't know what the UNDI or PXE stacks are, don't worry -- you don't want them, @@ -257,10 +259,7 @@ LABEL label On ISOLINUX, the "type" specifies the local drive number to boot from; 0x00 is the primary floppy drive and 0x80 is the - primary hard drive. The special value -1 causes ISOLINUX to - report failure to the BIOS, which, on recent BIOSes, should - mean that the next boot device in the boot sequence should be - activated. + primary hard drive. INITRD initrd_file Starting with version 3.71, an initrd can be specified in a |