[syslinux] Problems compiling syslinux on Debian 10

[Didier Spaier]

https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub/html_node/Network.html

grub--mknetdir --help
man grub-mknetdir
or
info grub-mknetdir

Or a web search with as arguments:
grub pxe mknetdir

If using Google search I would restrict to answers since less than one year.

Cheers,
Didier



Le 20/10/2022 à 06:13, solarflow99 a écrit :
> 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 <mailto: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
>     <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
>     <http://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 <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
>     <https://slint.fr>).
> 
>     Cheers,
>     Didier
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