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

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Sat Jun 7 12:37:00 PDT 2014


On 06/07/2014 06:10 AM, Spike White wrote:
>>
>> The former "should" work, although I'm not sure how much testing has
>> been done with kernels that old.
> 
> H Peter, I nearly fell out of my chair laughing when I read this.
> 
> You are *so* right!  (And you are *so* wrong for saying so.)
> 
> Redhat released RHEL 6.5 ~Nov 18th.  (I know this because like many other
> RHEL practioners, I was waiting in line.)  I'm guessing CentOS re-spun and
> offered CentOS 6.5 five days later, that's fairly typical for downstream
> providers.
> 
> RHEL is on an 18 month refresh cycle.  So RHEL 6.6 will come out Mar/Apr
> 2016.  Thus you're disparaging the latest and greatest for having an
> old kernel.
> 
> And you're absolutely right!  It's kernel 2.6.32-431.el6.x86_64.
> 
> In defense of Redhat, they also provide Fedora 20, based on kernel
> 3.11.10-301.fc20.x86_64.
> 

Yes, what I meant is that from a technology point of view it is a 2.6.32
kernel, which is 4.5 years old.  This matters a lot for EFI support,
because the whole direction of how EFI is supported has changed in the
meantime.

	-hpa




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