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Hello, I try to move xpenoboot from USB to EFI partition on SSD in my NAS in order to boot, but experienced problem with boot from UEFI as XPEnoboot stuck at some point in loading kernel. I first installed Windows 10 on my SSD boot disk, which created first recovery partition and second EFI partition, then I installed latest debian distribution which installed to the rest of disk and added EFI files for GRUB into EFI fat32 partition. My efi partition is on /dev/sda2 which is by default mounted in debian on /boot/EFI Now in order to boot syslinux to load XPEnoboot I needed to install syslinux into EFI partition. So first I downloaded lastest syslinux from https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/ ... ting/6.04/ Then from archive syslinux I took syslinux files for efi64 architecture following guide https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/sy ... I_Syslinux Created folder /boot/efi/EFI/syslinux and copied files from syslinux 6.04 into it : syslinux.efi – syslinux efi loader ldlinux.elf ldlinux.e64 zImage – from XPEnoboot USB And additional support files from syslinux distribution, not all are necessary : hdt.c32 chain.c32 libcom32.c32 libgpl.c32 libmenu.c32 libutil.c32 menu.c32 syslinux.cfg vesamenu.c32 I modified syslinux.cfg as follows added path to zImage of XPEnoboot on EFI partition UI menu.c32 PROMPT 0 TIMEOUT 50 DEFAULT xpenology MENU TITLE XPEnoboot 5.2-5644.4-df9e09c LABEL xpenology MENU LABEL XPEnology DSM 5.2-5644 KERNEL /EFI/syslinux/zImage APPEND root=/dev/md0 ihd_num=0 netif_num=4 syno_hw_version=DS3615xs sn=xmac1=xxxmac2=xxx vid=0x0EA0 pid=0x2168 loglevel=0 vga=0x305 LABEL debug MENU LABEL XPEnology DSM 5.2-5644 Debug KERNEL /EFI/syslinux/zImage APPEND root=/dev/md0 ihd_num=0 netif_num=4 syno_hw_version=DS3615xs sn=xx mac1=xxx mac2=xxx vid=0x0EA0 pid=0x2168 loglevel=0 vga=0x305 debug=1 LABEL install MENU LABEL XPEnology DSM 5.2-5644 Install/Upgrade KERNEL /EFI/syslinux/zImage APPEND root=/dev/md0 ihd_num=0 netif_num=4 syno_hw_version=DS3615xs sn=xxx mac1=xxx mac2=xxx vid=0x0EA0 pid=0x2168 loglevel=0 vga=0x305 upgrade=5.2-5644 As my EFI partition is on /dev/sda2 i modified command to add Syslinux option to UEFI boot menu efibootmgr -c -d /dev/sda -p 2 -l /EFI/syslinux/syslinux.efi -L "Syslinux" Now I was able to boot Syslinux from UEFI and then load XPEnoboot. Syslinux loaded XPEnoboot but only black screen show up and boot stop. When I tried DEBUG mode I could see XPEnoboot kernel messages loading but then it stuck at some point. Any idea how to make xpenoboot boting from partition on UEFI systém ?

Hello, I would like to get rid of USB by install XPenology into /boot directory on my Linux partition in nas server. My config consist of dualboot UEFI installation on dedicated server with NAS NVR3 board. I got 12 SATA connectors and connected 6HDD and 2SSD. On SSD i got dualboot Debian Linux and Windows 10 booting in UEFI GRUB. Now I want to get rid of USB and have triple boot config for Debian, Windows 10 and XPEnology. My idea was to transfer XPenology zImage from USB to /boot folder on debian SSD drive and update Grub accordingly, but GRUB expect initrd which I dont have for XPenology. I tried to rewrite syslinux boot entry into GRUB as you can see below, but it does not work and even I can see new boot entry after grub-update I can't boot and only got black screen with XPenlogy not loading. What is the problem in my GRUB config ? SYSLINUX: MENU LABEL XPEnology DSM 5.2-5644 KERNEL /zImage APPEND root=/dev/md0 ihd_num=0 netif_num=4 syno_hw_version=DS3615xs sn=XXXXX mac1=XXXX mac2=X vid=0x0EA0 pid=0x2168 loglevel=0 vga=0x305 GRUB incorrect not working menuentry "XPEnology DSM 5.2-5644" { linux /boot/zImage root=/dev/md0 ihd_num=0 netif_num=4 syno_hw_version=XXXXX sn=XXXXX mac1=XXXXX mac2=XXXXX vid=0x0EA0 pid=0x2168 loglevel=0 vga=0x305 boot }

I solved it by downloading latest binary from syslinux and then throw away binary on usb and created completely new usb from binaries on distribution and then transfereed zImage and syconfig.cfg. Also added config lines to boot windows LABEL boot_hd1 MENU LABEL HD1 Windows COM32 chain.c32 APPEND hd1 LABEL boot_hd2 MENU LABEL HD2 Windows COM32 chain.c32 APPEND hd2 LABEL boot_hd3 MENU LABEL HD3 Windows COM32 chain.c32 APPEND hd3

Thank you for quick reply but I am not as good in those things. It means install linux first somewhere, download all the compilers. Sounds like hours of work and I basically need just a few files you mentioned.

Hello, i would like to modify syslinux.cfg and add menu to be able have option to boot Windows 10/7 from another disk on xpenoboot. The problem is that syslinux need same version of chain.c32 and libcom32.c32 to load. On original distribution of xpenoboot those library files are missing. I am unable to identify which version of syslinux is used on xpenoboot. I mean to add something like this label Windows menu label Windows 10 MENU INDENT 1 COM32 chain.c32 fs ntldr=/bootmgr Thanks for any advice.