[syslinux] UEFI not successful

[solarflow99]

No they boot just fine for BIOS.  It's like it can't download initrd for
some reason, there's no error on the pxe server.

Is there a better way to pxe these days?  Are most people using grub2 for
this, i don't know if grub2 works with pxe.


On Tue, Oct 11, 2022, 11:08 AM Dave Henderson <daveh at digital-pipe.com>
wrote:

> I may be wrong, but if it loads vmlinux I think the bootloaders job has
> completed and the boot sequence has successfully been handed off to the
> next process.  You may want to make sure there isn't anything wrong with
> the kernel or initrd.  Are either of those custom builds?
>
>
> Dave
>
>
> On 10/11/22 01:44, solarflow99 via Syslinux wrote:
> > Hi, I am trying to PXE boot linux in UEFI mode, and it doesn't even work
> at
> > all when using syslinux.efi from the latest Fedora package
> > (syslinux-efi64-6.04-0.22.fc36.x86_64).
> > I have to use bootx64.efi just to get the menu to show up.  Even then it
> > loads vmlinux, and then just hangs trying to load initrd.img.
> >
> > in.tftpd[2197733]: RRQ from 192.168.10.240 filename
> > uefi64/syslinux/syslinux.efi
> > in.tftpd[2197733]: tftp: client does not accept options
> > in.tftpd[2197734]: RRQ from 192.168.10.240 filename
> > uefi64/syslinux/syslinux.efi
> > in.tftpd[2197734]: Client 192.168.10.240 finished
> > uefi64/syslinux/syslinux.efi
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