Michael Mueller

Hey, thanks for the comment! Quick update after fiddling around with rEFInd for a while: I decided to try GRUB instead of rEFInd as the initial bootloader that chainloads the ESXi bootloader. I had to make some slight adjustments (e.g. syntax for menu stanzas varies a bit between grub and refind), but after a couple of hours everything worked like a charm! :-) Gonna post a brief update on the ESXi forum soon, too, just in case anybody else is still struggling with this use case.

Hello everybody, I'm trying to create a custom ESXi .iso-file with rEFInd as its boot loader instead of the custom VMWare boot loader. The iso file shall then be mounted on a remote server as its (virtual) installation medium (basically following these instructions). The servers must boot in EFI mode, not legacy unfortunately. So far I did the following: 0. Unpack the original ESXi iso image and copy its content to a work directory 1. Within the work directory, rename the original boot loader (mv...