[ipxe-devel] iMac 2007 silently fails booting kernel

[Linus Lüssing]

On Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 01:15:20PM +0000, Michael Brown wrote:
> If you see the trace reach the point of calling ExitBootServices(), then 
> that shows iPXE has managed to load and start the kernel binary, that 
> the kernel has managed to retrieve everything it needed from the 
> firmware, and that the firmware part of boot is finished.  This is a 
> good sign.

Yes, ExitBootService gets displayed:

http://metameute.de/~tux/bugreport/ipxe/20160116_007.jpg

> On a separate note, you will also need to add "initrd=initrd64.img" to 
> your kernel command line, to let the kernel's EFI stub know where to 
> find the initrd image.

Ok, didn't have that, tried it but seems to be the same result. I
also tried commenting out the initrd line completely, as I would
expect a kernel oops then at least, but wasn't the case either.