[syslinux] UEFI: Failed to load ldlinux.e64/ldlinux.e32

[Gene Cumm]

On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 6:17 AM, Ashish, Shivendra
<shivendra.ashish at hpe.com> wrote:
> Gene,
>
> I have tested the binaries provided, it worked for me on DL380 Gen9.
> I'm going to test this comprehensively in many different hardware and VM platforms.
> I will get back in case I face any issue.
>
> Thanks a lot.

I already found a regression that affects a rather unusual scenario.
I hope to have another set shortly after I test this again.

-- 
-Gene

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Geert Stappers [mailto:stappers at stappers.nl]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 07, 2015 12:04 PM
> To: Gene Cumm; Da Shi Cao; S. Schauenburg; Michael Glasgow; Oscar Roozen; jeff_sloan at selinc.com; Cao, Da-Shi (EG-China-Presales-CPC-GZ); holger.baust at freenet.ag; For discussion of Syslinux and tftp-hpa; Ashish, Shivendra; Derrick M
> Subject: Re: [syslinux] UEFI: Failed to load ldlinux.e64/ldlinux.e32
>
> On Tue, Oct 06, 2015 at 10:27:15PM -0400, Gene Cumm via Syslinux wrote:
>> > On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 4:07 AM, Gene Cumm <gene.cumm at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> I have a patch that I think may help your situation of syslinux.efi
>> >> being unable to load ldlinux.e64/ldlinux.e32 (though I don't know
>> >> if any of you are using an EFI ia32 platform).
>> >>
>> >> The basics are that we try to enable UseDefaultAddress as it helps
>> >> certain clients with routing and works on numerous other clients.
>> >> If we timeout on receiving a packet and have never received any
>> >> packets, disable UseDefaultAddress and set the addresses manually.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> git://github.com/geneC/syslinux.git
>> >> https://github.com/geneC/syslinux.git
>> >>
>> >> Branch 1efipxe
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> My test x86-64 binaries:
>> >>
>> >> https://sites.google.com/site/genecsyslinux/sl604p0g17-x64.tgz?attr
>> >> edirects=0&d=1
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 4:46 PM, Derrick M <derrick.martinez at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > This works! Fixes my issue I have been having with the DL160s
>>
>> Further testing, preferably of the above binaries, on machines that
>> previously had issues loading ldlinux.e64/ldlinux.e32 would be greatly
>> appreciated as I know you've observed this issue and this seems like
>> we might have a final resolution.
>
> Please tell in your feedback
> if you did get a message about disabling UseDefaultAddress on the screen.
>
>
> Genec: Respect! Respect!
> Yes twice kudos. One for the technical skills and one for the effort of finding the e-mail address of people effect by the issue.
>
> I would have just address the mailinglist, the Syslinux community as a whole.
> But hey, the personal approach might be good for our project, Syslinux.