sanboot --drive 0x80 (localboot) hangs

[robinsmidsrod]

Have you tried just using the "exit" command to continue the boot order and set the local storage device as the next in the bios boot order?

The sanboot method you use above is a side-effect of how the sanboot command works, and shouldn't really be used for local booting. The proper way is to use "exit". There is a known problem that some BIOSes have problems to boot local drives from inside the network card option ROM.

The iPXE project doesn't have a list of BIOSes that fail this test, but I know that some users of the puppet razor project has started compiling such a list. I'm not sure if it is public or not.