[syslinux] VMware with UEFI fails to boot

Conrad Kostecki ck at conrad-kostecki.de
Sun Feb 2 09:34:59 PST 2014


On Sun, Feb 2, 2014 at 7:18 AM, Conrad Kostecki <ck at conrad-kostecki.de> wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 8:50 PM, Ady <ady-sf at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 21:07, Gene Cumm <gene.cumm at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > Known issue.  http://bugzilla.syslinux.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35 and
>>> perhaps a few others but this should be resolved in the master branch.
>>> > I just committed my fix this morning so there's no -pre release yet.
>>>
>>> Is that really fixed in git? I've checkout syslinux about one hour 
>>> ago from git. I ran a make all and copied the new syslinux.efi and 
>>> ldlinux.e64. But it didn't changed anything. Still the same error on 
>>> VMware.
>>
>> Just to be sure we are talking about the same "git master", have you 
>> tried from:
>> http://git.zytor.com/?p=syslinux/syslinux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads
>> /
>> master
>
>> Thanks Ady.
>
>> Yes, I pushed the commits this morning only to the above project repo (in addition to my own at github.com and zytor.com).  gitk and git log would show a history of commits.
>
> I used this one:
> git clone git://git.zytor.com/syslinux/syslinux.git syslinux-git
>
> That should be the mentioned master branch?

> Yes however I have no clue on the reliability of your system for building Syslinux.  I can provide some test binaries if you would like.

That would be a good idea!	
I've also now installed Debian 7 32-Bit in VMware and compiled syslinux. But it's still not working for me with UEFI. You said, that Debian stable x86 worked for you.
So some test binaries would be a good idea.

Cheers
Conrad




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