Syslinux - Jan 2024 - Running VMware ESXi network installer via syslinux/menu

Hello,

So I'm running syslinux.efi
Which loads menu.c32
Which is supposed to start ESXi's bootx64.efi/mboot.efi

But that gives

"""
Loading mboot.efi... ok
Invalid Boot signature 0x2, bailing out
Booting kernel failed: Bad file number
"""

Secure boot is disabled.

Thoughts?

The reason why it would be nice using PXE and syslinux here is because 
we have this automation set up where we can choose from the menu what we 
want to install and also use a templating mechanism.

Best regards,
Marki

Remember the vmware versions of their loader are diffrent.  I remember
looking at the source for the mboot file and it was diffrent from the
syslinux version.

On Fri, Jan 19, 2024, 5:25 PM marki via Syslinux <syslinux at
syslinux.org>
wrote:
> Hello,
>
> So I'm running syslinux.efi
> Which loads menu.c32
> Which is supposed to start ESXi's bootx64.efi/mboot.efi
>
> But that gives
>
> """
> Loading mboot.efi... ok
> Invalid Boot signature 0x2, bailing out
> Booting kernel failed: Bad file number
> """
>
> Secure boot is disabled.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> The reason why it would be nice using PXE and syslinux here is because
> we have this automation set up where we can choose from the menu what we
> want to install and also use a templating mechanism.
>
> Best regards,
> Marki
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On Sat, Jan 20, 2024 at 12:21:37AM +0100, marki via Syslinux
wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> So I'm running syslinux.efi
> Which loads menu.c32
> Which is supposed to start ESXi's bootx64.efi/mboot.efi
> 
> But that gives
> 
> """
> Loading mboot.efi... ok
> Invalid Boot signature 0x2, bailing out
> Booting kernel failed: Bad file number
> """
Which syslinux version?
What is the APPEND for mboot.efi ?

(In order to boot The Hurd on Devuan I had to edit mboot as it handled
arguments differently from grub. This is published as version
3:6.04~git20190206.bf6db5b4+dfsg1-3+devuan6 in Devuan repo. So it
might be related here, or not)

Ralph.
> 
> Secure boot is disabled.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> The reason why it would be nice using PXE and syslinux here is because we
> have this automation set up where we can choose from the menu what we want
> to install and also use a templating mechanism.
> 
> Best regards,
> Marki
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