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As #SYSLINUX and thus #PXELINUX are unmaintained syslinux.efi does not work well:
Which software should one use to boot from network into a selection menu for various operating systems running from network or local in #EFI systems?

Hey #Linux users. This is probably going to be extremely geeky and technical and I'm fully expecting not to understand any of the answers I'm going to receive, if any, but...

If a Linux Distro's official ISO is built using an older version of SysLinux which has since been depreciated, and no newer ISO exists, is there a way to manually rebuild the ISO to use an up-to-date SysLinux instead?

#syslinux #rufus #livecd #technical

@thundergod97 Here is the PXE Boot working. Next is to add all of the other ISO, etc #linux #syslinux #pxeinstall #vmware #homelab

This is what I get for trying to remove the #syslinux copyright line through editing the binary. I thought I was smart, but I'm not.

Why I wanted to remove it: It was too long and the line break annoyed me.

Luckily, I should still be able to boot the system using #EFI.

Why I am using syslinux: The #linux driver for #samsung laptops has more features when in #BIOS mode.

Anyone have any idea what's up with this #archlinux vm? After booting into a rescue system I can chroot into it just fine, reinstall #syslinux (in BIOS mode), reinstall the kernel, rerun mkinitcpio and even did a forced fsck including badblocks check over night. Nothing helped.

Alright, next milestone reached: My new host is getting the syslinux.efi file from the Bootserver. Now to actually configure it.

Also: Far too much time spend fighting a permission problem thinking it was NFS, though it actually was the mount directory itself having the wrong perms. 🤦‍♂️

#100DaysOfHomelab #homelab #syslinux