[syslinux] pxelinux and UEFI laptops - broke everything which had worked with BIOS/pxelinux.0

[Victor Sudakov]

Victor Sudakov via Syslinux wrote:
> > 
> > > A typical EFIx64/pxelinux.cfg/default entry looks like this:
> > > 
> > > label memtest2
> > >   menu label ^8. Memtest86+ v4.20
> > >   kernel memtest420
> >  
> > Memtest86+ v4.20 is for BIOS (and/or CSM) only, not for UEFI.
> 
> All right, I have just extracted the "memtest" kernel from the
> https://www.memtest86.com/download.htm (memtest86-usb-9.0-beta-1.zip
> distribution) which is UEFI-only. 
> 
> The result? Still, an instant reboot after "memdisk" is downloaded by
> the PXE client.

I wanted to say 'after "memtest" is downloaded' of course.

> 
> And generally, do you mean to say that if some "kernel" was compiled without
> UEFI in mind, syslinux.efi will not be able to boot it? This cuts off about
> 1/2 of my collection of engineering utilites.

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