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

[Ralph Ronnquist]

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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