[syslinux] Entry selection isn't saved

Stéphane Raimbault stephane.raimbault at gmail.com
Thu Jan 7 11:54:59 PST 2016


I copied your binaries to /boot/EFI/syslinux but the problem still there,
so I reinstalled Archlinux with legacy BIOS/MBR and now syslinux saves the
selected entry.

2016-01-06 21:52 GMT+01:00 Gene Cumm <gene.cumm at gmail.com>:

> On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 3:24 PM, Stéphane Raimbault <syslinux at zytor.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I installed syslinux 6.0.3 on a UEFI/GPT system with Arch Linux.
> >
> > My /boot/EFI/syslinux/syslinux.cfg contains MENU SAVE but selected
> entries
> > aren't saved.
> > Just after I hit the Enter key in the syslinux menu, I see efi_adv_write:
> > Unable to open file \ldlinux.sys, this message isn't displayed
> > when the boot starts after the timeout (default entry).
>
> It shouldn't be attempting ldlinux.sys but rather syslinux.efi though
> I'm not sure the ADV is fully functional in EFI
>
> > My installation didn't have this file so I try to add it with extlinux
> > --install /boot/EFI/syslinux but the problem still there.
>
> Not necessary and essentially useless.
>
> > Any ideas?
>
> Official version from kernel.org without running make?  I don't know
> if there have been changes that'll affect the ADV since 6.03 but you
> could try my test binaries.
>
>
> https://sites.google.com/site/genecsyslinux/sl604p0g22-x64.tgz?attredirects=0&d=1
>
> --
> -Gene
>


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