On Thu, 1970-01-01 at 00:00 +0000, AL13N via Syslinux
wrote:> Hi,
>
> I'm used to non-UEFI PXE boot, and I use it for my network installer
> since forever ago.
>
> Looking up how to UEFI PXE boot, I use the syslinux.efi file and
> allthough it was loaded and stuff, nothing happend after it, I had at
> least expected the ldlinux64 to be requested from the TFTP server, but
> nothing.
>
> After searching, I noticed someone asking to test the new pre-release,
> and so I downloaded the 6.04 version. I replaced the syslinux.efi file
> only, and I got a lot more success. I symlinked the pxelinux.cfg dir and
> images so it could find the files it needed.
>
> Then I got the prompt, I typed "install" to trigger that menu
item and
> it transferred the vmlinuz file (14sec for 11MB). Then the initrd
> (47MB), which takes a long time, but does not ever show the "ok",
even
> after the transfer was complete (as far as I could tell from the TFTP
> server), which takes more than a minute. after some seconds of nothing
> happening, it just reboots...
>
>
> Can anyone help met out here?
>
If I recall correctly, UEFI is somewhat broken. Try iPXE instead.