Re: Syslinux in stretch-backports (Re: syslinux_6.04~git20171011.af7e95c3+dfsg1-4~bpo9+1_amd64.changes is NEW)
On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 11:32 AM Ingo Wichmann <iw@linuxhotel.de> wrote:
>
> Hi Steve,
>
> Am 23.10.2018 um 15:04 schrieb Holger Levsen:
>
> >> Wow. I'm surprised to hear anybody is actually really using syslinux
> >> with UEFI! I'm curious why, rather than grub - can you share?
>
> I've got a working setup with pxelinux. And I don't want to maintain a
> grub and a syslinux configuration, both. Most distros ship with isolinux
> as bootloader on the installer image. So it's easy to copy and paste the
> configuration to get the installer running on PXE.
>
> So until now I don't see any advantages moving to GRUB. Where do you see
> advantages in using GRUB for PXE?
I just read most of these pages, which have sections like: "When to
Use SYSLINUX" and "Conditions in which GRUB 2 may not be the best
choice..."
http://www.rodsbooks.com/efi-bootloaders/syslinux.html
Originally written: 6/30/2013; last update: 7/7/2018
It is the best writeup I have seen on the pros n cons of all the boot
manager/loader options, and very up to date.
my summary: "It depends" ;)
I think the best choice for "this" is to follow the default of the
base os install, which is currently grub 2. if someday that changes,
then we should migrate all the things.
Similar to using the same linux kernel on the installer and the installed os.
>
> Ingo
>
> >
> > Ingo (in cc:) told me:
> >
> > --begin--
> > With the version in stretch I was able to boot the Debian and Ubuntu
> > installers. But not the Centos and SuSE installers:
> > 51M centos7_64/initrd.img
> > 45M ubuntu1804_64/initrd.gz
> > 24M debian9_64/initrd.gz
> > 93M suse15_64/initrd
> >
> > Here I found a hint, that version 6.03 of syslinux has several issues
> > affecting both UEFI and PXE:
> > https://serverfault.com/questions/810226/syslinux-how-to-correctly-configure-for-uefi-pxe-boot#answers
> > --end--
> >
> >
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