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

Gene Cumm gene.cumm at gmail.com
Sun Oct 25 04:50:51 PDT 2015


On Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 6:31 AM, Geert Stappers via Syslinux
<syslinux at zytor.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 08:44:18PM -0400, Gene Cumm via Syslinux wrote:
>> On Sun, Oct 11, 2015 at 3:15 PM, Michael Glasgow <glasgow at beer.net> wrote:
>>
>> > I'm not sure what the decaying i/o issue looks like.  It's a bit
>> > slow loading the initrd, but I think the efi drivers are just slow
>> > in general.  Just in case, I went ahead and did a capture on the
>> > g18 patch loading OL 7.1, which you can grab from here:
>> >
>> > http://www.beer.net/m/etc/sl604p0g18.pcap.gz
>>
>> Just like that although this one maintains a reasonable IO rate.
>> Wireshark, Statistics, IO Graph, "udp.dstport == 1719", bits/tick.
>> Look at both 1 second per tick and 5 pixels per tick and then 0.1
>> seconds per tick and 1 pixel per tick.
>
> In a different thread there was a posting[1] where
> updating the TFTP _server_  did help.
>
> Is in this thread also a newer TFTP-server being tried?
>
>
> Groeten
> Geert Stappers
> [1] http://www.syslinux.org/archives/2015-October/024468.html

In my system, I'm also using tftp-hpa though it's possible switching
may help Michael.  I've been trying to dig into this issue and it
appears it's mostly in the gnu-efi callbacks or the UEFI firmware
gnu-efi calls (if I trust my tests and the custom timer I just made).

-- 
-Gene


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