On 03/10/17 15:59, Thomas Bächler wrote:
Am 07.03.2017 um 16:50 schrieb Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi via arch-releng:
Support booting 64-bit Linux, from 32-bit EFI firmware.
Only tested on qemu with ovmf, does not work at all. cdrom mode: qemu stop with bad instruction address hybrid mode: qemu just freeze at tianocore logo with a upper pixed dot.
Are you sure you want to use syslinux for this? I tried this once with efilinux and had some success, but some problems as well. I am just asking because my experience with syslinux and EFI was very bad.
Is this even a use case? What kind of machines come with 32 bit EFI?
Hi Thomas, I do not like it, indeed I denied some past requests in our bugtracker, because was a extreme corner case. But seems to be more common these days, so lets bring a opportunity. I want to first try syslinux since is the "natural" choice for ArchISO, but actually does not work, and I opened a ticket in syslinux bugtracker [#1] "[Bug 75] [EFI-32] booting "mixed" (x86_64) Linux 4.9/4.10 hang/reset (4.4 is OK)" efilinux is not updated since long time, who knows if build with current gnu-efi. The last last last... option will be grub if a found a simple way to use it. [#1] https://bugzilla.syslinux.org/show_bug.cgi?id=75