Package: syslinux-efi
Version: 6.03+dfsg-2
Severity: normal
Tags: upstream
Dear Maintainer,
*** Please consider answering these questions, where appropriate ***
* What led up to the situation?
+ I am trying to install wheezy on a few machines using syslinux and EFI
and booting the debian-wheezy-kernel reboots the machines.
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
ineffective)?
+ I installed copies of syslinux 6.03, syslinux 6.01 and the
debian-package syslinux-efi on my tftp-server.
With all three setups I tried booting the wheezy-kernel and the
jessie-kernel.
* What was the outcome of this action?
+ syslinux 6.01 will boot both kernels, syslinux 6.03 and syslinux-efi
from jessie will only boot a jessie-kernel, the wheezy-kernel leads to
a reboot on both vmware virtual machines and real physical hardware.
* What outcome did you expect instead?
+ I expected both kernels to boot.
More information:
I submitted this issue to the syslinux-ml and got
http://www.syslinux.org/archives/2014-December/022905.html as an answer.
As I don't quite know what to make of this answer (and whether the kernel
should work because it is relocatable and has the stub enabled) I think this
should be noted as a known issue and a workaround (e.g. booting syslinux
to boot efi-grub to boot the kernel) should be included in the docs.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.7
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Regards,
Hardy
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