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FS#43730 - grub-uefi can not boot 16 bit ipxe.lkrn

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Opened by solsTiCe (zebul666) - Saturday, 07 February 2015, 19:24 GMT
Last edited by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi (djgera) - Wednesday, 22 April 2015, 23:52 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Hardware Issues
Status Closed
Assigned To Thomas Bächler (brain0)
Architecture All
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

hi
I was trying to netboot archlinux from the instructions on https://releng.archlinux.org/pxeboot/
using ipxe.lkrn and grub2 uefi x86_64. And this does not work. It just reboot without error.

It seems linux16 command is only available in grub 32 bit (not efi ??)

It would be great if that page https://releng.archlinux.org/pxeboot/ mentions that with grub2 uefi (or x86_64 ?) it is impossible to use that pxe kernel to boot.

instead of letting people waste their time trying to

Related topic on forum
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1024980#p1024980
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1163930#p1163930

also the menuentry for grub2 seems outdated mentionnning (hd0,1), in't that grub legacy way of noting thing ?
shouldn't it that be :
insmod part_gpt
insmod fat
set root=(hd0,gpt1)
(...)
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Closed by  Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi (djgera)
Wednesday, 22 April 2015, 23:52 GMT
Reason for closing:  Upstream
Additional comments about closing:  nothing can be done here.
Comment by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi (djgera) - Tuesday, 10 February 2015, 01:49 GMT
These instructions and files are for BIOS firmware only.
Comment by Thomas Bächler (brain0) - Tuesday, 10 February 2015, 22:00 GMT
We currently don't have images for UEFI PXE boot. The current files only support BIOS.

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