[syslinux] VMWare ESX mboot.c32

Gene Cumm gene.cumm at gmail.com
Fri Feb 6 05:32:04 PST 2015


On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 8:27 AM, Holger Baust via Syslinux
<syslinux at zytor.com> wrote:
> Hi.
>
> VMWare has an own/modified mboot.c32, which is capable of using
> Configfiles. This mboot.c32 is on every Installsystem for their ESXi
> hypervisor install-iso.
> Until syslinux 4.07 this works with pxelinux out of the box.
> Since 5.x this mboot.c32 will not work anymore.
> There seem to be more modifications than only a parameter "-c".
>
> Does anyone has an idea what has changed so this mboot.c32 is not
> working anymore and/or how to get it working again?

Everything.  You can't mix COM32s with various versions of Syslinux,
especially across major versions which have breaking compatibility.

-- 
-Gene


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