Hallo Carl, thx for the pointer. I fit in the group described with "conditions when you might want to consider using it" ;-)
A feature I missed is "chainload". I wanted to chainload grub2, just to give it a try. "As I write (summer, 2018), the latest version is 6.0.3, and has not been updated since 2014, so it's beginning to look like it's been abandoned. " Looking at the git repo proves this comment wrong: https://repo.or.cz/syslinux.git/shortlog Obviously the author missed the 6.0.4 release (which has not been published in the news section of the syslinux homepage) Of course, grub's commit log looks much more impressive: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/grub.git/log/ Ingo Am 14.11.2018 um 17:09 schrieb Carl Karsten: > On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 11:32 AM Ingo Wichmann <i...@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-- >>> >>> >> >> -- >> Linuxhotel GmbH, Geschäftsführer Dipl.-Ing. Ingo Wichmann >> HRB 20463 Amtsgericht Essen, UStID DE 814 943 641 >> Antonienallee 1, 45279 Essen, Tel.: 0201 8536-600, http://www.linuxhotel.de >> > > -- Linuxhotel GmbH, Geschäftsführer Dipl.-Ing. Ingo Wichmann HRB 20463 Amtsgericht Essen, UStID DE 814 943 641 Antonienallee 1, 45279 Essen, Tel.: 0201 8536-600, http://www.linuxhotel.de