[syslinux] gpxelinux.0 under a QEMU GPXE virtual boot rom?

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Fri Oct 7 15:25:24 PDT 2011


On 10/07/2011 01:01 PM, Kenneth Morse wrote:
> You're all back!  (yippie!).  Now I can ask the question that's been nagging
> at me over the past month...
>
> Is booting gpxelinux.0, under QEMU, which provides it's own GPXE capable
> boot rom supposed to work?   Or, is it a redundant (the GPXE boot room
> already provides the functionality of gpxelinux.0) and suicidally dumb thing
> to do?  I've found some references to other people having similar (but not
> identical) problems - but no real answer to "Is it supposed to work?".
>
> I could see the answer going either way.  Either A), it should work, and I
> have something wrong.  Or B) It's a dumb thing to try to do, stop trying to
> do that....
>

It *should* work, but it is redundant.

	-hpa




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