Syslinux - Jan 2024 - Running VMware ESXi network installer via syslinux/menu

Remember the vmware versions of their loader are diffrent.  I remember
looking at the source for the mboot file and it was diffrent from the
syslinux version.

On Fri, Jan 19, 2024, 5:25 PM marki via Syslinux <syslinux at
syslinux.org>
wrote:
> Hello,
>
> So I'm running syslinux.efi
> Which loads menu.c32
> Which is supposed to start ESXi's bootx64.efi/mboot.efi
>
> But that gives
>
> """
> Loading mboot.efi... ok
> Invalid Boot signature 0x2, bailing out
> Booting kernel failed: Bad file number
> """
>
> Secure boot is disabled.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> The reason why it would be nice using PXE and syslinux here is because
> we have this automation set up where we can choose from the menu what we
> want to install and also use a templating mechanism.
>
> Best regards,
> Marki
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Hello,

On 1/20/2024 1:03 AM, Adan Calderon wrote:
> Remember the vmware versions of their loader are diffrent.
Phew, what does that mean? It's their "bootx64.efi".
Running "file" on it says it's an "MS-DOS executable".
> I remember looking at the source for the mboot file and it was 
> diffrent from the syslinux version.
Not sure what this means either,

in any case I am using syslinux.efi, menu.c32 etc from syslinux 6 (6.03 
to be precise)

Marki
>
> On Fri, Jan 19, 2024, 5:25 PM marki via Syslinux 
> <syslinux at syslinux.org> wrote:
>
>     Hello,
>
>     So I'm running syslinux.efi
>     Which loads menu.c32
>     Which is supposed to start ESXi's bootx64.efi/mboot.efi
>
>     But that gives
>
>     """
>     Loading mboot.efi... ok
>     Invalid Boot signature 0x2, bailing out
>     Booting kernel failed: Bad file number
>     """
>
>     Secure boot is disabled.
>
>     Thoughts?
>
>     The reason why it would be nice using PXE and syslinux here is
>     because
>     we have this automation set up where we can choose from the menu
>     what we
>     want to install and also use a templating mechanism.
>
>     Best regards,
>     Marki
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