[syslinux] UEFI not successful

[solarflow99]

thanks, thats what i'm seeing.  But I am trying to boot 64 bit, i've tried
with RHEL 7-9 and the latest Fedora all with the same result.  The only
hint is that it used to work before I upgraded the hardware, esxi, and the
pxe host, but thats too many variables to isolate the problem.  I heard of
a bug in syslinux 6.03?  but i've tried syslinux.efi from that 6.03 and
6.04-Testing with the same result.




On Tue, Oct 11, 2022 at 12:13 PM Erik Rull via Syslinux <
syslinux at syslinux.org> wrote:

> 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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