[syslinux] Question about hdt and UEFI

[Gene Cumm]

On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 10:08 AM, R S <rene.shuster at bcsemail.org> wrote:
> If I remember correct HDT is a .C32 executable and not .EFI, so no it will
> not work.

Syslinux on EFI won't load arbitrary .efi files but there are 3
different flavors of COM32 files, one per firmware.

> On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 10:02 AM, Gene Cumm via Syslinux
> <syslinux at zytor.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 8, 2018 at 4:43 AM, Nicolas Lécureuil via Syslinux
>> <syslinux at zytor.com> wrote:
>>
>> > i am trying to use hdt with an UEFI install.  It does  not start and
>> > freeze.
>> >
>> > Does someone know if it is supposed to work ?
>> >
>> > Btw i have enough machines here to do real QA :)
>>
>> Personally, I have never tried.  The symptoms would seem to indicate
>> it's trying to execute some BIOS code and isn't ready for EFI (yet).
>>
>> Erwan, any insight/thoughts?
>>
>> --
>> -Gene
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