[syslinux] Boot fails in a VMware player VM - syslinux 6.03

[Didier Spaier]

On 13/11/2014 21:51, Ady wrote:

 > Realistically, less and less users are using optical media,
 > especially on newer computers (which are of course UEFI systems).

Yes. And if a computer is old enough not to be able to boot off an USB
drive, it probably doesn't have an UEFI firmware anyway ;)

 > This means that investing resources in Syslinux development with the
 > specific goal of achieving bootable optical media in UEFI mode is
 > less "productive" than investing resources to achieve other
 > improvements / features. I'm not saying it won't happen - possibly by
 > adding some other, more-important features, then booting optical
 > media in UEFI mode might be also achievable.

I can understand that. And fixing the remaining bugs that you've listed in
previous posts, so that Syslinux 6.04 can be released and used by default
by new versions of Linux distributions, is probably more urgent.

Best regards,
Didier