[syslinux] Boot another *.efi from SYSLinux?

Gene Cumm gene.cumm at gmail.com
Wed Oct 15 03:04:36 PDT 2014


On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 3:55 AM, Andrew Rae <A.M.Rae at leeds.ac.uk> wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> Hi!
>> I am currently trying upgrade my bios pxe server with additional uefi support.
>> My current using memtest86+ doesn't seem to support uefi, so I would have to
>> use memtest86, as it supports this.
>> But the memtest86 file itself is an *.efi file. When booting this one directly
>> without syslinux, its working.
>>
>> But I want to launch it later from the syslinux menu. Can I chainload somehow
>> another *.efi loader?
>> Booting *.iso / memdisk seems not be available in syslinux uefi..
>>
>> Conrad
>
> Conrad,
>
> As far as I know, (and I've asked about this previously) - none of what you've asked is possible yet (that is, launching another .efi file and memdisk are unavailable at present).
>
> I'm hoping this feature comes in the near future, so we can chainload into the Microsoft install environments from syslinux like we do currently in BIOS mode.

http://www.syslinux.org/archives/2014-August/022614.html

-- 
-Gene


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