similar to: EFI booting over network - can't then load anything

> -----Original Message----- > From: H. Peter Anvin [mailto:hpa at zytor.com] > Sent: 06 June 2014 16:14 > To: Andrew Rae; 'syslinux at zytor.com' > Subject: Re: [syslinux] EFI booting over network - can't then load anything > > On 06/06/2014 07:27 AM, Andrew Rae wrote: > > Hi all.. > > > > Quick one if someone could show me a line out of their

> Message: 3 > Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2014 08:13:36 -0700 > From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa at zytor.com> > To: Andrew Rae <A.M.Rae at leeds.ac.uk>, "'syslinux at zytor.com'" > <syslinux at zytor.com> > Subject: Re: [syslinux] EFI booting over network - can't then load > anything > Message-ID: <5391DAA0.2050207 at

Hi, background: I've managed to get EFI32, EFI64 and 'BIOS' modes all booting & working from the same TFTP/DHCP server using the setup described in message #10 here: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=720589#10 I'm running this inside VMWare 9 - switching between x86 and x86_64 to check both EFI32 and EFI64, and then another non efi VM for bios. issue #1: I can

On 06/06/2014 07:27 AM, Andrew Rae wrote: > Hi all.. > > Quick one if someone could show me a line out of their configuration for these two scenario's . > > We're trying to do two things via EFI64 network boot & SYSLINUX: > * boot a CentOS 6.5 installation vmlinuz/initrd.img combination - machines just reboot after downloading the initrd.img. > * boot windows

Hi all, wasnt sure whether this was the best place to put this information; but something seems to have gone 'backwards' in the later pre-releases of 6.03 regarding network booting. below are results of me testing - i did each a few times to make sure they are valid results. hope it helps identify something that's gone awry ? so far, 6.03 pre11 and pre13 (excluding efi32) seem most

Hi Gene, (some text snipped throughout) > > issue #1: > > I can only get this working on 6.02-pre16 and before back to 6.01-pre2, > > but definitely not working for me on the latest precompiled 6.02 zip & tar.gz. > http://bugzilla.syslinux.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35 although my current > branch needs just a little more work for the cross-subnet case. Thanks for that,

On 06/09/2014 12:09 AM, Andrew Rae wrote: > > Many thanks! > > I think we thought that it was more functional in EFI mode than it is - apologies ! > > I/We tried to do a RedHat 7 RC UEFI Network Boot - and that seemed to work OK & as expected.... > If we could only get Centos 6.5 and some version of WindowsPE to boot! - we could switch to using EFI booting on the new

> I use Syslinux 6.03 EFI64 on a VMware Workstation 10 VM on > 10.0.2 on Linux. > w/o any problem? >> correctly sends back w/o error the "corresponding" syslinux.efi >> "EFI BC" -> EFI64\syslinux.efi >> "EFI IA32"-> EFI32\syslinux.efi >I only send back 1 filename. > Me too, I just send the

On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 5:44 AM, Patrick Masotta <masottaus at yahoo.com> wrote: >> I use Syslinux 6.03 EFI64 on a VMware Workstation 10 VM on >> 10.0.2 on Linux. >> > w/o any problem? Yes. > Me too, I just send the ""corresponding"" syslinux.efi >> Are they actually transferring the syslinux.efi files? > > sure > >> What

(SNIP) > > 6.03-pre11 EFI64: fails - gets stuck in a loop downloading files - > > differs each boot > > 6.03-pre12 EFI64: fails - downloads /pxelinux.e64 & /ldlinux.e64 - > > then continually retries to download ldlinux.e64 > > 6.03-pre13 EFI64: boots OK TFTP & HTTP > > 6.03-pre14 EFI64: fails - downloads /pxelinux.e64 & /ldlinux.e64 - > > then

> > From: Matt Fleming [matt at console-pimps.org] > > Sent: 25 June 2014 07:39 > > To: Andrew Rae > > Cc: Gene Cumm; syslinux at zytor.com > > Subject: Re: [syslinux] testing out 6.03 network booting... > > > > Andrew, could you try out syslinux-6.03-pre18? Peter pushed the release > > button yesterday and -pre18 contains my change. It would be

> Which one, just out of curiosity? They are Sony notbooks > What is the "preload install script"? Is the DVD El-Torito-bootable and > it runs something which reports that the system must be EFI _before_ it > boots any OS? > If you are using PXE, then that's along the same lines as BIOS. If they > want EFI, that's a stronger requirement than CD/DVD. If

> If the Windows OS is running and a program is checking for an optical > disc drive, then you really need one of: > - A physical optical disc drive with the expected disc > - A virtual optical disc drive with the expected disc > > Are you using either of these right now? If you are using a physical > OD, does it have a Syslinux EFI on it? If you are [thinking about]

On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 6:11 PM, Andrew Rae <A.M.Rae at leeds.ac.uk> wrote: > Hi, > > background: > I've managed to get EFI32, EFI64 and 'BIOS' modes all booting & working from the same TFTP/DHCP server using the setup described in message #10 here: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=720589#10 > > I'm running this inside VMWare 9 -

On Sun, 22 Jun, at 06:15:50PM, Andrew Rae wrote: > > Matt - I'd love to try it - but I'm not so good at fixing compiling > issues. right now I get stuck at being unable to 'make' the efi32 or > efi64 components due to an error: Andrew, could you try out syslinux-6.03-pre18? Peter pushed the release button yesterday and -pre18 contains my change. It would be good to

> 1) SYSLINUX on EFI must be extended to load arbitrary > EFI binaries > (perhaps through a module first > like how linux.c32's code became the > Linux loader). Do you know 6.03 status on this topic? i.e. can something like bootmgfw.efi be booted today or not? Pat

On 2014/3/7 ?? 05:23, Gene Cumm wrote: > On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 10:55 AM, Bryan Romine <bromine1027 at gmail.com> wrote: >> Sorry for the confusion, I am actually using 6.02. It turns out that I was >> trying to use the 32-bit efi binary to load 64-bit kernels. I switched to >> using "syslinux64.efi" but it hangs during boot, just before loading the >>

>>> 1) SYSLINUX on EFI must be extended to load arbitrary >>> EFI binaries >>> (perhaps through a module first >>> like how linux.c32's code became the >>> Linux loader). >> >> Do you know 6.03 status on this topic? >> i.e. can something like bootmgfw.efi be booted today ornot? > http://bugzilla.syslinux.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17

On Dec 30, 2014 6:06 AM, "Patrick Masotta" <masottaus at yahoo.com> wrote: > > > > 1) SYSLINUX on EFI must be extended to load arbitrary > > EFI binaries > > (perhaps through a module first > > like how linux.c32's code became the > > Linux loader). > > Do you know 6.03 status on this topic? > i.e. can something like bootmgfw.efi be

On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 12:00 PM, Ady <ady-sf at hotmail.com> wrote: > >> I'm testing syslinux PXE EFI boot with VMware workstation 9.04 running >> on Windows 8.1 I use Syslinux 6.03 EFI64 on a VMware Workstation 10 VM on 10.0.2 on Linux. >> VMware correctly performs the DHCP request indicating either >> the "EFI IA32" or "EFI BC"