[syslinux] Still fighting localboot on EFI - looping

[Gene Cumm]

On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 6:51 AM, Gene Cumm <gene.cumm at gmail.com> wrote:

> Using VMware Workstation 10 with a VMHW v10 VM (aka vmx10 though
> misnomer), RHEL-6 64-bit guest OS hint, (1) e1000 NIC, forcibly
> changed to UEFI mode.  Boot order of floppy, CD, NIC, HDD, 2 manual
> entries of EFI images on HDD, and the internal shell.
>
> Manually selecting NIC, booting sl604p0g18 binaries, config directive
> as "LOCALBOOT -1", it returns to the first EFI command screen
> (continue, boot manager to select an option or Boot Maintenance
> Manager for full firmware config).
>
> Automatically booting same binaries and config, it quickly spits a
> message about EFI failure then loads from HDD where I have Syslinux
> installed.
>
> I also tried the same with a VMHW v9 VM with (3) e1000 NICs but saw
> issues initially with sendto.  After disconnecting the 2 extra NICs
> from networking, it worked as above.

Yet a VMHWv10 VM with 3 NICs works flawlessly on the above code.

-- 
-Gene