[syslinux] efi config hang

[Carl Karsten]

On Fri, Dec 7, 2018 at 11:16 PM Ady Ady via Syslinux <syslinux at zytor.com> wrote:
>
>
> > If this is the best we can do, I'm ok with that.
>
> It's _not_ the best we can do. The question is... what exactly is this
> "we"?

We have both made some contributions to my little goal. you certainly
share in the credit.

>
> After some testing (which I don't really want to keep doing myself,
> because the chances that something is actually going to improve are
> very close to zero... it is so disappointing / frustrating /
> discouraging) I can tell you at least that when booting in UEFI mode:
>
> _ the 'F0' directive is broken
>
> _ the 'F10' directive works from CLI (aka boot prompt) but seems to
> fail under (vesa)menu
>
> _ the screen (under the default screen resolution of syslinux.efi +
> (vesa)menu.c32) is a mess and it cannot be completely clear / clean up;
> IOW, [CTRL]+[L] and 'MENU CLEAR' are partially (mostly) broken
>
> _ the DEFAULT directive is partially broken
>
> _ the basic functionality of showing DISPLAY files (in this case, the
> "help" files) is working; IOW the DISPLAY directive and the F1-F10 are
> basically working (with the above caveats, possibly more than those),
> both from CLI and from menu (no hang)

I'm OK ignoring cosmetic problems.
crahses/hangs I'll log bugs.  I'm not too fusses over what happens after that.


>
> So, yes, something is indeed wrong, but when testing the basic
> functionality in a simplified UEFI setup, it "works". I don't want to
> be the one making up multiple tests in order to find out where exactly
> the problem is when using additional features (as the multiple cfg
> files in Debian use).
>
> Let me know whether you are curious about this. If you are, I can send
> you a floppy image for you to test and repeat (replicate?) the test
> (results?). You can then report back here in the Syslinux Mailing List.
>

Send them over - happy to report what I can replicate and discover.


> Regards,
> Ady.
>
>
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Carl K