[syslinux] Running VMware ESXi network installer via syslinux/menu

[Adan Calderon]

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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