Re: [Qemu-devel] [edk2] syslinux vs. OVMF

[Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>]

10.04.2015 13:06, Laszlo Ersek wrote:
> On 04/10/15 10:14, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>>   Hi,
>>
>>> In summary, please ask Gerd to rebuild the ipxe binaries that are
>>> bundled with upstream qemu such that they include those two iPXE patches
>>> of ours (see the last reference).
>>
>> https://www.kraxel.org/cgit/qemu/log/?h=rebase/roms-next
>>
>> Can you give this a try?
> 
> Thank you for this update, I tested it.
> 
> (1) I reproduced the issue, so that I could be sure that the fix wasn't
> meaningless. Indeed the bug reproduces with the iPXE binaries bundled
> with upstream qemu.
> 
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> * e1000 results:
> - OVMF        loads shim.efi    via network
> - shim.efi    loads grubx64.efi via network
> - grubx64.efi loads grub.cfg    via network
> - grubx64.efi loads vmlinuz     via network
> - grubx64.efi loads initrd.img  via network
> - guest kernel boots
> 
> So, I think the update is fine in general...

However, after the update of efi roms in qemu, the original problem
of booting syslinux in OVMF still persists.  I received several
private messages asking whenever I succeeded in resolving the
original prob outlined at

 http://www.syslinux.org/archives/2014-November/022804.html

and I always referred to this thread, until someone told me that
the update does not fix the issue.  Now I verified it locally,
and no, I still can't use syslinux with OVMF with qemu efi roms,
getting exactly the same output as I've seen on Nov-2014.
As you checked, grub loads, but apparently syslinux still doesn't.

Is it a different issue perhaps?

Thanks,

/mjt