Unable to PXE boot a server running EFI

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Environment

SUSE Manager Server 4.2

Situation

When performing a PXE boot from a system with EFI, the server comes directly back to the EFI menu.

When performing a network trace, the following can be seen:

tcpdump: verbose output suppressed, use -v or -vv for full protocol decode
listening on eth0, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size 500 bytes
08:46:56.483073 IP xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx.netview-aix-11 > server.name.tftp:  43 RRQ "grub/grub.efi" octet tsize 0 blksize 1468

Resolution

Change the following in /etc/cobbler/settings.:

bootloaders_dir: "/usr/share/syslinux"

To:

bootloaders_dir: "/var/lib/cobbler/loaders"

After the file is save, perform:

systemctl restart cobblerd
cobbler sync

Cause

The problem is a wrong parameter in /etc/cobbler/settings.

Status

Reported to Engineering

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