Booting Slackware from windows 10 boot-loader?

ProzacR · 03-28-2023, 01:40 AM

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Originally Posted by business_kid

I'm not going to put an answer here except to note that a thread generally should not go beyond 8-10 posts without being sorted. You're at 28 posts by clever people and still no nearer a solution. The answer might be staring at you - in a mirror.

Re-read the answers you have been given, do the work suggested, answer the questions fully, do your own research too. Then things will happen. Until you can set up uefi the standard way by hand, you can never do it a non-standard way.

So you are unable to provide clear step-by-step instructions on what to do?

business_kid · 03-28-2023, 11:34 AM

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Originally Posted by ProzacR

So you are unable to provide clear step-by-step instructions on what to do?

So, 32 posts in, you want me waste my time to write you yet another guide on setting up a bootloader without interfering too much with other unspecified things?

Why won't you read any of the hundreds or thousands out there already?

Volunteers here use the information you provide, and their knowledge to diagnose problems and suggest solutions to users like you. Your effort is lacking. Yet you're demanding "clear step-by-step instructions?" for a problem you haven't bothered to give full details of? Have you even searched previous threads? I'll bet you haven't put into practise the suggestions in this thread. Do you see the issue here? Look in the mirror.

ProzacR · 03-30-2023, 01:07 AM

What kind of details are you missing after 32 posts in?
It is your way to hide the lack of a clear solution just to make a baseless claim that it exists somewhere?
It is maybe easier for you to write 4 lines of useless things than provide a link to a clear solution?
How do you think I produced pictures with my phone without doing suggestions in this thread?

yancek · 03-30-2023, 03:38 AM

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Booting Slackware from windows 10 boot-loader?

If this is an EFI install of windows, the answer is no. See the link below. Neosmart has software (EasyBCD) which would create/add a Linux or other OS boot entry to the windows BCD menu on Legacy(MBR) machines. This is apparently not allowed on EFI machines by Microsoft according to the Neosmart site below. If you go to the site and scroll down to the section titled "What This Means" and read the last sentence of the 2nd paragraph, you have your answer.

https://neosmart.net/wiki/easybcd/uefi/

You have apparently mixed modes as you have windows UEFI and you installed Slackware using Lilo rather than Elilo and you say you have an msdos partition table which means it is a Legacy install so the way to boot it is by selecting the Slackware drive in the BIOS. What do you see in Boot Options in your BIOS? Do you see and reference to Legacy/CSM in the BIOS?