Hi, I am trying to get xen booted on a new mainboard I bought using efi-syslinux/mboot. No success so far. When I choose the xen menu entry except from some characters being wiped from the bottom of the screen nothing is happening. I have made a typo in the xen kernel filename. Nothing changed, no errors about wrong a filename were displayed Initially I compiled syslinux 6.03 (slackware64, gcc 4.8.2). After this I used the efi64 files from a debian package (syslinux-common_6.03+dfsg-10_all.deb) Nothing changed. It looks like the system stops after loading mboot.c32 grub.efi is able to boot the same xen and vmlinux files. The bios: Version 2.16.1243. Copyright (C) 2013 American Megatrends, Inc. V.NF9N A01 10-24-2014 The console can be redirected/duplicated to a serial port. -- Hans
> Hi, > > I am trying to get xen booted on a new mainboard I bought using > efi-syslinux/mboot. No success so far. When I choose the xen menu entry > except from some characters being wiped from the bottom of the screen > nothing is happening. > > I have made a typo in the xen kernel filename. Nothing changed, no > errors about wrong a filename were displayed > > Initially I compiled syslinux 6.03 (slackware64, gcc 4.8.2). After this > I used the efi64 files from a debian package > (syslinux-common_6.03+dfsg-10_all.deb) > > Nothing changed. > > It looks like the system stops after loading mboot.c32 >In addition to possible regressions and limitations (and suggested patches pending for several years) in/for mboot.c32, I am not sure mboot.c32 is really in a working / useful / usable status for UEFI.> grub.efi is able to boot the same xen and vmlinux files. >Unfortunately, the pace of development for Syslinux is very slow. I would suggest for you to use whatever suits you.> > The bios: > Version 2.16.1243. Copyright (C) 2013 American Megatrends, Inc. > V.NF9N A01 10-24-2014 > > The console can be redirected/duplicated to a serial port. > > -- > HansRegards, Ady.> _______________________________________________ > Syslinux mailing list > Submissions to Syslinux at zytor.com > Unsubscribe or set options at: > http://www.zytor.com/mailman/listinfo/syslinux >
On 08/19/2015 07:43 PM, Ady via Syslinux wrote:> >> Hi, >> >> I am trying to get xen booted on a new mainboard I bought using >> efi-syslinux/mboot. No success so far. When I choose the xen menu entry >> except from some characters being wiped from the bottom of the screen >> nothing is happening. >> >> I have made a typo in the xen kernel filename. Nothing changed, no >> errors about wrong a filename were displayed >> >> Initially I compiled syslinux 6.03 (slackware64, gcc 4.8.2). After this >> I used the efi64 files from a debian package >> (syslinux-common_6.03+dfsg-10_all.deb) >> >> Nothing changed. >> >> It looks like the system stops after loading mboot.c32 >> > > In addition to possible regressions and limitations (and suggested > patches pending for several years) in/for mboot.c32, I am not sure > mboot.c32 is really in a working / useful / usable status for UEFI. > > >> grub.efi is able to boot the same xen and vmlinux files. >> > > Unfortunately, the pace of development for Syslinux is very slow. I > would suggest for you to use whatever suits you. >I prefer the simplicity of syslinux above the grub thing. But in the end I need something that works, so grub for now. Thank for the reply -- Hans