[syslinux] syslinux 6.01 boot into GPT EFI hdd

Jonas Keidel
2013-08-02T17:51:12Z

So will the patch be applied in 6.02?
Am 02.08.2013 17:30 schrieb "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa at zytor.com>:

> Yes, I think so. The integer really means the same as EFI's
> ExitBootServices.
>
> Matt Fleming <matt at console-pimps.org> wrote:
> >On Fri, 02 Aug, at 07:50:57AM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> >> I don't know if there is a meaningful difference between
"localboot
> >-1"
> >> and "localboot 0" on EFI... they are really two
different ways to ask
> >> the BIOS to do the same thing.
> >
> >That's fine, it was just that I couldn't figure out what
LOCALBOOT 0
> >should do on EFI. Should we just ignore the integer argument to
> >LOCALBOOT for EFI when booting over PXE? The argument doesn't
really
> >make sense at all on EFI.
>
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