Bug 553552

Summary:	sys-boot/syslinux-6.03 uefi doesnt boot
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	DJ Dunn <djdunn.safety>
Component:	[OLD] Unspecified	Assignee:	Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn <chithanh>
Status:	RESOLVED TEST-REQUEST
Severity:	normal	CC:	base-system
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	AMD64
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description DJ Dunn 2015-06-29 13:24:04 UTC

Ok, so I compiled syslinux with the -custom-cflags, and i copied the files from /usr/share/syslinux/efi64 that I needed, but when i go to boot the new syslinux.efi it doesn't work, i dont get any error messages i just get a blinking curser for a few seconds then UEFI attempts the next device.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Mike Gilbert gentoo-dev

2015-06-30 03:19:57 UTC

What version of syslinux?

Comment 2 DJ Dunn 2015-06-30 21:58:15 UTC

Oh sorry 6.03 version

Comment 3 Martin Zimmermann 2016-01-29 00:25:12 UTC

Please try again with:

env CFLAGS="-march=x86_64" CPPFLAGS="$CFLAGS" emerge -1 syslinux

This worked for me, my previous compiler flags were too aggressive (-march=native on Haswell).

Comment 4 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn gentoo-dev

2017-10-18 02:20:22 UTC

If you still see this problem with syslinux-6.04_pre1, please provide "emerge --info" output and reopen this bug. Do you use ld.gold (bug 563364)?