Why does using 'chain.c32' to PXE boot from a system's local drive fail? - Red Hat Customer Portal

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Issue

A system is installed with a working Red Hat Enterprise Linux installation
A network interface in the system is set to boot via PXE but the System Administrator needs it to default to automatically boot from a local drive
The config file under /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/ on the TFTP server is set to boot a server from local disk using the chain.c32 directive
The system fails to boot

Environment

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6
syslinux-3.86-1.1.el6.x86_64 and later versions
tftp-server
PXE booting via network interface

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