[syslinux] pxelinux and UEFI laptops - broke everything which had worked with BIOS/pxelinux.0
Victor Sudakov
vas at sibptus.ru
Sat Dec 19 03:30:51 PST 2020
Dear Colleagues,
For years I've been using pxelinux to provide an engineering menu to
workstations in the local network. I can run several versions of
memtest, hardware diagnostics tools, boot mfsBSD and other things.
Now I have several laptops with UEFI-only BIOSes, and I have found out
the hard way that my favorite tools do not work any more.
Of course I have replaced pxelinux.0 with syslinux.efi and provided
ldlinux.e64 and other things it wants.
A typical EFIx64/pxelinux.cfg/default entry looks like this:
label memtest2
menu label ^8. Memtest86+ v4.20
kernel memtest420
Now when I select it, I get
Loading memtest420... ok
Cannot relocate kernel. bailing out
And this entry:
label memtest3
menu label ^7. Memtest-86 v4.3
kernel memdisk
append initrd=memtest86-floppy.img
produces the message "Loadig memtest86-floppy.img..." but then instant
reboot!
Is there I way I can fix all the above and continue enjoying my engineering
menu with the UEFI laptops?
--
Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN
2:5005/49 at fidonet http://vas.tomsk.ru/
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