[syslinux] Fwd: syslinux-6.03 failed to boot ESXI 6.7

[luckydog xf]

Thanks, I used iPXE to resolve this issue.

On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 9:32 PM Adan Calderon via Syslinux <
syslinux at syslinux.org> wrote:

> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
> From: Adan Calderon <adancalderon at gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 9:13 AM
> Subject: Re: [syslinux] syslinux-6.03 failed to boot ESXI 6.7
> To: luckydog xf <luckydogxf at gmail.com>
>
>
> I can share some working examples for a USB Thumb drive and  PXE servers
> using chain loading, but it will take me some time.  If you are interested
> in my working configs allow me some time to better document what I have
> done.
>
> Going off on a tangent with this, the source code to VMWare's version of
> mboot is available when you get the source code from their site.  It's a
> giant DVD ISO file; in it a file called efiboot-....tgz has it.  I did a
> google search and found a file here:
>
> https://github.com/xcat2/xcat-dep/tree/master/esxboot
>
> It's GPL 2
>
> In case someone want's to look at it.
>
> On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 1:36 AM luckydog xf <luckydogxf at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Thanks everyone.
> > ---
> > Yes, I used syslinux v4.05, it was sucessful.
> >
> > Speaking of  chainloading,  does it need to build another suite of
> > DHCP+TFTP+pxelinux.cfg ? I'm not quite fimilar with it.
> >
> > By the way, I also used ipxe, it seem it works with ESXI v6.7.
> >
> > Hope it's not *offensive *in this thread, as it's syslinux topics. :)
> >
> > ---  a sample conf of ipxe for your reference ---
> > # make sure you configure boot.cfg correctly.
> > #  boot.cf
> > #prefix=http://172.16.234.112/images/esxi67/
> > # kernelopt=http://172.16.234.112/images/esxi67/ks.cfg
> >
> > ----
> > # IPXE
> > :esxi
> >   # UEFI
> >   kernel http://172.16.234.112/images/esxi67/efi/boot/bootx64.efi -c
> > http://172.16.234.112/images/esxi67/efi/boot/boot.cfg
> >  # legacy.
> >   #kernel http://172.16.234.112/images/esxi67/mboot.c32 -c
> > http://172.16.234.112/images/esxi67/boot.cfg
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 3:53 AM Adan Calderon <adancalderon at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> The mboot.c32 that comes with ESXi is diffrent from the mboot from
> >> syslinux.  In fact vmware's mboot has it source code available as a
> >> download.
> >> It works with versions of Syslinux before 4.05.  I have had success
> using
> >> it with more modern versions of syslinux via chainloading.  One can
> chain
> >> load an earlier version of syslinux, usually 4.05.  This version of
> >> syslinux can then run the vmware version of mboot.
> >>
> >> -Adan
> >>
> >> On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 6:06 AM luckydog xf via Syslinux <
> >> syslinux at syslinux.org> 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,
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