[syslinux] Problems compiling syslinux on Debian 10

[solarflow99]

Does anyone have a good doc on how to use grub2 for PXE?  I'd like to try
using it and see if UEFI will work any better.


On Wed, Oct 19, 2022 at 11:02 PM Didier Spaier via Syslinux <
syslinux at syslinux.org> wrote:

>
>
> Le 20/10/2022 à 01:38, Tom Lisjac a écrit :
> > Hi Tom,
> >
> > why not use or re-build the package shipped in Debian 10?
> > https://packages.debian.org/buster/syslinux
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Didier
> > --
> >
> > Thanks for the suggestion, Didier. Tried their tarball and got a
> different type of error for 6.04:
> >
> > ld -m elf_i386  -T
> /home/dev/syslinux/syslinux-6.04~git20190206.bf6db5b4/mbr/i386/mbr.ld -e
> _start -o mbr.elf mbr.o
> > objcopy -O binary mbr.elf mbr.bin
> > perl /home/dev/syslinux/syslinux-6.04~git20190206.bf6db5b4/mbr/
> checksize.pl mbr.bin
> > mbr.bin: too big (452 > 440)
> > make[3]: ***
> [/home/dev/syslinux/syslinux-6.04~git20190206.bf6db5b4/mbr/Makefile:42:
> mbr.bin] Error 1
> > make[2]: ***
> [/home/dev/syslinux/syslinux-6.04~git20190206.bf6db5b4/Makefile:288: mbr]
> Error 2
> > make[1]: ***
> [/home/dev/syslinux/syslinux-6.04~git20190206.bf6db5b4/Makefile:257: bios]
> Error 2
> > make: *** [Makefile:102: all] Error 2
> >
> > None of the errors I've seen look like dependency or toolchain issues.
> At this point it would help to know the best place to find GA releases and
> if someone can point to a recent version and build environment that will
> successfully compile it.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > -Tom
>
> Did you apply the patches in this archive:
>
> http://deb.debian.org/debian/pool/main/s/syslinux/syslinux_6.04~git20190206.bf6db5b4+dfsg1-1.debian.tar.xz
> ?
> If not, please do it.
> If yes I suggest that you file a bug on the Debian bug tracker.
>
> Sorry I can't help you beyond that, not running Debian (and havin switched
> to
> GRUB2 for Legacy and EFI booting long ago in Slint, https://slint.fr).
>
> Cheers,
> Didier
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