[ipxe-devel] iPXE ISO and syslinux 6.x

[Christian Hesse]

Christian Hesse <list at eworm.de> on Mon, 2013/10/21 10:53:
> Christian Hesse <list at eworm.de> on Mon, 2013/10/21 10:34:
> > Hello everybody,
> > 
> > syslinux has just been updated to version 6.x on Arch Linux, resulting in
> > broken ISO build. New default location of isolinux.bin is
> > /usr/lib/syslinux/bios/isolinux.bin, additionally it requires a file
> > called ldlinux.c32 at boot time. Have not taken a deeper look on how to
> > integrate that into build system, though.

Prepared a patch, feel free to apply. See attachments.

> I added ldlinux.c32 to the ISO image, now boot fails with:
> 
> Loading ipxe.krn... ok
> Booting kernel failed: Invalid argument
> 
> I will investigate later.

This is a regression with syslinux. See the bug report for details:
http://bugzilla.syslinux.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40
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