[syslinux] Syslinux 5.x and VMware ESXi mboot.c32

Matt Fleming matt at console-pimps.org
Thu May 16 01:35:54 PDT 2013


On Wed, 15 May, at 10:32:01PM, Shantanu Gadgil wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have had a VMware ESXi network boot setup for quite some time now.
> After upgrading from 4.06 to 5.01 (or 5.10-pre3) the network boot fails with the following error:
> --- snip ---
> Failed to load COM32 file esxi/5.1.0/mboot.c32
> boot:
> --- snip ---
> 
> This error is seen for the ESXi bootup only.
> The default mboot.c32 from syslinux itself doesn't work and this setup has been working with Syslinux 4.06.

Did you also upgrade mboot.c32 to the corresponding 5.01 (or 5.10-pre3)
version?

Are there are any other messages printed before the "Failed to load.."
one above?

-- 
Matt Fleming, Intel Open Source Technology Center


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