Syslinux - Jul 2013 - Efi64 boot fail during download from kernel and initrd via http

> Actually, can you grab the version I built from,
> 
>   ftp://syslinux.org/pub/syslinux/tests/syslinux-6.02-pre2.tar.gz
> 
> And see whether things work for you? I'm just trying to rule out any
> kind of distribution error on the Syslinux build machine.
> 
> -- 
> Matt Fleming, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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Hi Matt, 

same problem with the new pre2 version.
I also tested pre9 with the same result.

Regards
Michael

On Wed, 24 Jul, at 07:54:04AM, Michael Szerencsits
wrote:
> > Actually, can you grab the version I built from,
> > 
> >   ftp://syslinux.org/pub/syslinux/tests/syslinux-6.02-pre2.tar.gz
> > 
> > And see whether things work for you? I'm just trying to rule out
any
> > kind of distribution error on the Syslinux build machine.
> > 
> > -- 
> > Matt Fleming, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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> Hi Matt, 
> 
> same problem with the new pre2 version.
> I also tested pre9 with the same result.
 
Damn, I messed up the git tags so I wasn't looking at an accurate list
of changes between -pre1 and -pre2.

Your error is likely being triggered by the recent kernel changes. For
x86-64 we now try to boot a Linux kernel via the 32-bit entry point.
It's possible that code doesn't work correctly with vmware.

Could you grab -pre10 and change the APPEND argument for your debug.c32
line to,

   APPEND -e efi_boot_linux handover_boot valid_pecoff_image

which should hopefully print some info from the kernel boot paths.

-- 
Matt Fleming, Intel Open Source Technology Center

> Damn, I messed up the git tags so I wasn't looking at an accurate list
> of changes between -pre1 and -pre2.
> 
> Your error is likely being triggered by the recent kernel changes. For
> x86-64 we now try to boot a Linux kernel via the 32-bit entry point.
> It's possible that code doesn't work correctly with vmware.
> 
> Could you grab -pre10 and change the APPEND argument for your debug.c32
> line to,
> 
>    APPEND -e efi_boot_linux handover_boot valid_pecoff_image
> 
> which should hopefully print some info from the kernel boot paths.
> 
> -- 
> Matt Fleming, Intel Open Source Technology Center
> 
I tried it with pre11, same problem.

I modified the debug append line to the one above.

I get the following output:
efi_boot_linux: kernel_start 0x1000000 kernel_size 0x472390 initramfs 0x7e3dc998
setup_data 0x0 cmdline 0x9f000
efi_boot_linux: setup_sects 32 kernel_size 4662160

Hope this helps
Regards Michael