My path to having everything working, some tips, tricks and choices that might be helpful to others....
Slackware on ASUS Zenbook UX303 L
Posted 10-28-2015 at 08:38 AM by Tonus
As I stated in my first post, dealing with Debian testing with apt-get and aptitude made me mess quite everything... Thinking all this automation wasn't for me, I recalled Slackware had a -current flavor that might by more up to date than stable release.
I decided to make the switch.
First problem, I had no more usb stick available... But fortunately, grub2 offers the hability to boot straight from an iso image :
- Edit
- add at the end
- Note that my iso file is in no directory on (hd0,10) which is /dev/sda10
- Save changes with, as root
- Before booting on the install iso, you might want to download recent kernel sources to build after install 
Usefull guide to build your kernel from Alien BOB's wiki pages :http://alien.slackbook.org/dokuwiki/...kernelbuilding
Note that some options are for 32-bits kernel.
I also suggest, starting from a huge kernel, to use
.
Usefull infos on hardware :
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ASUS_Zenbook_UX303
I decided to make the switch.
First problem, I had no more usb stick available... But fortunately, grub2 offers the hability to boot straight from an iso image :
- Edit
Code:
/etc/grub.d/40_custom
Code:
menuentry "Slackware 14.1 ISO" {
insmod loopback
insmod iso9660
set isofile="/slackware64-14.1-install-dvd.iso"
loopback loop (hd0,10)$isofile
linux (loop)/kernels/huge.s/bzImage load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=0 rw printk.time=0 SLACK_KERNEL=huge.s
initrd (loop)/isolinux/initrd.img
}
- Save changes with, as root
Code:
grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
Usefull guide to build your kernel from Alien BOB's wiki pages :http://alien.slackbook.org/dokuwiki/...kernelbuilding
Note that some options are for 32-bits kernel.
I also suggest, starting from a huge kernel, to use
Code:
make olddefconfig
Usefull infos on hardware :
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ASUS_Zenbook_UX303
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