[syslinux] EFI booting over network - can't then load anything

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 06/06/2014 07:27 AM, Andrew Rae wrote:
> Hi all..
> 
> Quick one if someone could show me a line out of their configuration for these two scenario's .
> 
> We're trying to do two things via EFI64 network boot & SYSLINUX:
> * boot a CentOS 6.5 installation vmlinuz/initrd.img combination - machines just reboot after downloading the initrd.img.
> * boot windows server 2012 r2 PE menu via bootmgfw.efi - unsure of the commands to 'chain' load another .efi file. Everything I've tried has failed.
> 
> Both of these work if I switch to GRUB2 - but we want to use SYSLINUX with EFI as we already use it with the older BIOS PXE booting.
> 
> I also tried to load hdt as a test - that seemed to hang machines too.
> 
> I've tried 6.02 and 6.03-pre13 (and a load in between) - all with no success. All this has been tried with and without a menu. All tried in VMWare workstation and with a couple of different physical machines.
> 

The support for chaining another EFI isn't complete yet,
unfortunately... we are kind of short-handed these days unfortunately :(

The former "should" work, although I'm not sure how much testing has
been done with kernels that old.

	-hpa