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doc/syslinux.txt: LOCALBOOT update to reflect current state
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All variants now accept LOCALBOOT -1 as a fail over; Combine and reflow
the PXELINUX paragraph.
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geneC committed Feb 28, 2011
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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,
just specify 0.

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
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