[syslinux] syslinux 6.01 boot into GPT EFI hdd

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Fri Aug 2 07:50:57 PDT 2013


On 08/01/2013 01:13 AM, Matt Fleming wrote:
> 
> I've got a patch to support LOCALBOOT -1 on EFI, which will boot the
> next entry in the EFI Boot Manager (the thing configured with
> efibootmgr), and which I'll commit shortly, but it doesn't support
> LOCALBOOT 0. 
> 
> I'm not actually convinced that we should support LOCALBOOT 0 under EFI.
> Even on BIOS, LOCALBOOT runs into problems with some machines, and the
> preferred solution is to use chain.c32.
> 

I don't know if there is a meaningful difference between "localboot -1"
and "localboot 0" on EFI... they are really two different ways to ask
the BIOS to do the same thing.

	-hpa



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