[ale] iPXE and localhost drive boot

[Brian MacLeod]

Exit is supposed to work, but it has also been seen before that it
doesn't.  Sometimes it is configuration (are the disks listed after netboot
in BIOS/UEFI), and sometimes it is a bug.

I have seen where "exit 1" can fix this.

I have also used the following hack:

# Boot the first local HDD
sanboot --no-describe --drive 0x80


bnm

On Tue, Mar 23, 2021 at 2:13 PM Jim Kinney via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:

> Trying to get ipxe to default to the equivalent of pxe for calling
> localhost grub/grub2. It seems a batch of dell bios see the "exit" command
> output as "I've done everything so skip the next entry in boot order and
> start again".
>
> Old way called localhost 0xffff and system picked up whatever the drive
> subsystem presented for a bootable area. iPXE has no such command that I
> see.
>
> Ideas? I'm about to chainload a pxelinux.0 and call localhost but that
> seems like a kludge.
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