Syslinux - Jul 2014 - Creating LiveCD with EFI option? (Michael D. Setzer II)

Michael,

If you actually get virtualbox PXE booting via UEFI, please let us know how.
I spent about two weeks trying to get this to work.

This virtualbox PXE booting via UEFI appears so new, it was
poorly documented.  As of two months ago, when I was doing all this testing.

Allegedly, it has experimental support for UEFI PXE boot, if you have Intel
NICs.  (It uses the UEFI boot code from the NICs.)

I had one of the supported Intel NIC versions. Even after flashing my Intel
NIC
to the latest firmware version, no love.

Finally, I used VMWare workstation, latest version.  And it UEFI PXE booted,
no problem.

Well, one problem.  Gene from this mailing list had to help me with one EFI
boot
option that you place in the VMWare config file.  No GUI equiv.  But once
done,
VMWare workstation PXE EFI booted no problem.

Spike
> Message: 2
> Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2014 22:58:11 +1000
> From: "Michael D. Setzer II" <mikes at kuentos.guam.net>
> To: Syslinux at zytor.com
> Subject: [syslinux] Creating LiveCD with EFI option?
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> I've been using various versions of syslinux as the boot loader for the
g4l
> project that I have been the maintainer of since 2004. It was already
using
> syslinux, so I've just updated it over the years, and currently have it
use 5.10
> version, but have done test builds with the 6.x versions.
>
> Recently had request from to users about EFI support, and one suggested
> that virtualbox has option for testing, so I cloned the current testing
of the
> ISO to and EFI format, but just get a shell, so it requires some more
steps.
>
> Did some searching, but haven't found anything that seems to have the
exact
> steps. Also, not sure if I could make a single iso that would work with
both, or
> have to create two different versions. In testing 6.x of syslinux, I just
copied
> the files  to a different directory and replace the 5.x versions with 6.x
> versions, and build process remained the same.
>
> Currently, 7 timezones away from my build machines, so doing work via VNC
> and Virtual box for testing?
>
> Thanks, and keep up the great work.

On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 10:43 AM, Spike White <spikewhitetx at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Well, one problem.  Gene from this mailing list had to help me with one EFI
> boot
> option that you place in the VMWare config file.  No GUI equiv.  But once
> done,
> VMWare workstation PXE EFI booted no problem.
Yes/no.  You have to place it in the .vmx of the VM and converts the
machine to EFI rather than BIOS boot.  Nothing PXE specific.

The option is exposed in the GUI with the vSphere Client, even when
connecting to VMware Workstation and managing shared VMs.  The
universal caveat of the vSphere Client can't edit settings on a
VMHW-v10 (aka VMX-10) VM still applies.  I just did this on a VMHWv9
VM that I cloned from a VMHWv10 VM then downgraded its VMHW to v9.

-- 
-Gene

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