I added a summary of my own findings to the Slackware Documentation Project:
http://docs.slackware.com/howtos:ins..._uefi_hardware |
I have tried creating a USB EFI disk as described but it doesn't seem to work.
When I try and boot the boot manager appears to recognise it as a UEFI boot but when I select it the lilo screen does not come up and the boot passes to whatever is next on the list. Alan |
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Well I am part of the way there.
My mistake was that I had used the elilo ia64.efi file. Now I can boot with a kernel on the USB disk but I do not get an elilo menu and I cannot get it to boot using the kernel on my hard drive. This is elilo.conf Quote:
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No it shouldn't. You need to copy the kernel (and any initrd) over to the esp (efi system partition) and place them in exactly the same directory as elilo. elilo cannot read linux partitions, so the kernel has to be copied onto the esp with it.
You won't see a menu. To choose between the kernels you type the label at the boot prompt (e.g. type generic or huge) and hit enter, or just hit enter for the default (in your case generic). If you type nothing then after 5 seconds ("timeout" is in tenths of a second) it would boot generic. |
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Actually this is looking less useful than I thought. I was hoping elilo would automatically bring up a menu to choose slackware or windows. I am not sure that I can boot windows from elilo and if anyway I would have to tab for the menu in elilo I might as well stick with my present set up of using grub from slackware and F8 for the BIOS/UEFI menu for windows. |
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