[syslinux] UEFI not successful

[Erik Rull]

Hi all,

I'm not 100% sure if this is related, but lots of more recent UEFI
implementations prevent a 32 bit kernel to boot - only 64 bit Kernels can be
booted... So you see the "Loading" of both kernel and initrd, but then
"nothing", just a blinking cursor.

Best regards,

Erik



solarflow99 via Syslinux wrote:
> 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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