[syslinux] syslinux-6.03 failed to boot ESXI 6.7

[luckydog xf]

Correction, *But *the way  should be *By* the way.

Plus, syslinux-4.05 (pxelinux.0 , Shipped with Centos7.5-1804) with ESXI
6.7 works, but I can use TFTP only. Which makes large initrd files download
pretty slow and fail.


On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 6:02 PM luckydog xf <luckydogxf at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello, list,
>
>    I'm buiding syslinux6.3 with ESXI6.7, but it says,
>
>   * failed to load COM32 File
> http://172.16.234.112/images/esxi67/mboot.c32*
>
> Here is my config:
>
> ------------------
>
> label esxi
>   menu label ESXI-6.7 ^Installer
>   kernel http://172.16.234.112/images/esxi67/mboot.c32
>   append -c http://172.16.234.112/images/esxi67/boot.cfg
> --------------------
>
> Seeing from http access log, mboot.c32 was loading successfully.
> 172.16.235.99 - - [12/Mar/2019:17:59:15 +0800] "GET
> /images/esxi67/mboot.c32 HTTP/1.0" 200 90088 "-" "Syslinux/6.03"
>
> -------------------------
>
> I read from Common problems of docs, and rename mboot.c32 to mboot
> accordingly, it raises the same error.
>
> But the way, where is the correct way of booting from local drive?
>
> * localboot 0X80 * or -1 does not work.
>
> Thanks,
>
>