[syslinux] Boot iPXE from syslinux/isolinux

[Christian Hesse]

Gene Cumm <gene.cumm at gmail.com> on Tue, 2013/10/22 06:35:
> On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 5:41 AM, Christian Hesse <list at eworm.de> wrote:
> > Hello everybody,
> >
> > iPXE builds an ISO image by default. (The build system has to be updated
> > for new paths and to integrate ldlinux.c32, but that's not my problem.)
> >
> > With the binary syslinux files from kernel.org booting fails with
> > latest version 6.02:
> >
> > Loading ipxe.krn... ok
> > Booting kernel failed: Invalid argument
> >
> > It does work with version 6.01, though. Any hints how to fix this
> > regression?
> 
> I presume this is using the precompiled binaries from kernel.org?

Yes.

> If
> using the same ipxe.krn works on 6.01 and fails on 6.02, another thing
> to try is to narrow it down to a -pre release.

version 6.02-pre5 works, 6.02-pre6 does not.
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