[syslinux] VMware with UEFI fails to boot

[Gene Cumm]

On Sun, Feb 2, 2014 at 12:34 PM, Conrad Kostecki <ck at conrad-kostecki.de> wrote:
> 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.

Odd.  I do have security/wheezy/updates, wheezy-updates,
wheezy-backports, and wheezy-proposed-updates as repos but I thought
gnu-efi was the sole item I grabbed from the more current repos
outside updates (but should now unnecessary).

https://sites.google.com/site/genecsyslinux/sl603p1g3.tgz?attredirects=0&d=1
should at least get you so you can see it booting.

-- 
-Gene