[syslinux] syslinux 6.01 boot into GPT EFI hdd

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Fri Aug 2 08:30:34 PDT 2013


Yes, I think so. The integer really means the same as EFI's ExitBootServices.

Matt Fleming <matt at console-pimps.org> wrote:
>On Fri, 02 Aug, at 07:50:57AM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> 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.
>
>That's fine, it was just that I couldn't figure out what LOCALBOOT 0
>should do on EFI. Should we just ignore the integer argument to
>LOCALBOOT for EFI when booting over PXE? The argument doesn't really
>make sense at all on EFI.

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