[syslinux] gpxelinux.0 and slow HTTP performance on VMware ESX VM

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Thu Jun 30 13:03:36 PDT 2011


On 06/30/2011 12:00 PM, syslinux at schlomo.schapiro.org wrote:
> 
> actually I was already wondering. If the only thing I really need is
> vesamenu.c32, why use *pxelinux.0 and not ipxe directly with vesamenu?
> 
> Are there any benefits to using pxelinux to load vesamenu?
> 
> I also was not able to find any info on the web about this question...
> 

The gPXE/iPXE support for COM32 is historic (corresponding to the
Syslinux 3 API) and never worked well.

	-hpa




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