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

On Sat, Jan 20, 2024 at 12:21:37AM +0100, marki via Syslinux
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
> """
Which syslinux version?
What is the APPEND for mboot.efi ?

(In order to boot The Hurd on Devuan I had to edit mboot as it handled
arguments differently from grub. This is published as version
3:6.04~git20190206.bf6db5b4+dfsg1-3+devuan6 in Devuan repo. So it
might be related here, or not)

Ralph.
> 
> 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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On 1/20/2024 1:29 AM, Ralph Ronnquist via Syslinux
wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 20, 2024 at 12:21:37AM +0100, marki via Syslinux 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
>> """
> Which syslinux version?
I use syslinux 6.03
> What is the APPEND for mboot.efi ?
Full statement is

label testi

 ? kernel mboot.efi

 ? append -c /pxelinux.cfg/templates/esxi80/ESX8TEST.cfg

But looking at the tftp logs it never tries to load anything related to 
ESX8TEST.cfg, I guess that's because it errors out before even looking 
at the append command

Marki
>
> (In order to boot The Hurd on Devuan I had to edit mboot as it handled
> arguments differently from grub. This is published as version
> 3:6.04~git20190206.bf6db5b4+dfsg1-3+devuan6 in Devuan repo. So it
> might be related here, or not)
>
> Ralph.
>
>> 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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>> Syslinux mailing list
>> Submissions to Syslinux at syslinux.org
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>> https://lists.syslinux.org/syslinux
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