Installing 14.2 in grub
 

Hi there!

I want to give slackware a try. Since I've read quite a lot of howtos and I'm way too lazy these days I need some help on how to add an installed slackware to my grub-setup.

Can you tell me how an entry in my grub.cfg (grub 2) should look like?

TIA

Gregor

Hi:

Here are a few examples of the grub.cfg file.

Do you have another Linux distro already installed on your machine?

Which "here" are you talking about?

Yes. I am working with Wheezy right now. I took a photo of my current grub-entry so this won't get lost whatever I do to my computer :-)

Regards,

Gregor

There are 2 examples of grub files on that page. Either one I had hoped would give you an idea of how to make a menuentry.

***I'm not in the habit of making menu entries so it's best to wait for members who are good with that.***
Like our Guru yancek.-;)

If you would like to dual boot Debian and Slackware you will have to shrink your Debian partition. Unless of course you will be installing to another drive or the drive you already have Debian on has plenty of room.

The Slackware installation will prompt you to install the LILO bootloader. If you want to keep Grub than skip install LILO automatically and tell the installer not to install LILO.

Good luck with your installation.

That's the point. I want to make some sort of "friendly" transition. My wheezy-setup is not very up-to-date but since I read the security list and wheezy isn't supportet anymore my setup is relatively secure. It would be good if I could have some setup that checks for security related stuff, reports that and give me a chance to read important stuff before installing.

Thanks!

Gregor

I think you will find this video helpful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnggjPFtRCQ

https://docs.slackware.com/slackware:install

https://unix.stackexchange.com/quest...are-into-grub2

Maybe once you get Slackware installed you can install a vm and give the new Debian 9 a spin.
A friend of mine is running Debian 9 and it's really nice.

Thanks again!

Gregor

PS: I don't like debian 9 since I don't like systemd. That is one of the top reasons why I try slackware.

You're Welcome:-

I think you will be very happy with Slackware.
It's been rock solid for me for 6 years and I haven't had any problems.;)

Update: Since LILO seems to be the "right" bootmanager for slackware I installed its debian packages made me a configuration file and installed it.

That didn't work correctly. So after some hours of playing around I end up with a system that shows me

LIL

and after a short time I am presented a menu where I can choose - but only the first entry works correct and brings me back in my old debian system.

It feels like I am playing some sort of tough game :-) So, please take a look at the attached file and help me to find out whats going on.

TIA

Gregor

PS: Since I don't know if attaching worked:

------------snip-------------
lba32
boot = /dev/sda
map = /boot/map
install = menu
menu-scheme = Wb:Yr:Wb:Wb
prompt
timeout = 100
vga = normal

image = /boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-6-amd64
label = "Linux"
#root = /dev/sdb1
root = "UUID=b7b175cd-d0a6-4a2b-bb5a-a85021885f54"
read-only
initrd = /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-6-amd64

image = /boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-5-amd64
label = "Linux Old"
#root = /dev/sdb1
root = "UUID=b7b175cd-d0a6-4a2b-bb5a-a85021885f54"
read-only
initrd = /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-5-amd64

image = /boot/vmlinuz-huge-4.4.14
label = "Slackware"
root = /dev/sdb2
# read-only
# initrd = /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-6-amd64
------------------------------------

Hello,

from Wheezy just type:
You can do some tuning editing /etc/default/grub before running the first command. If you want to install grub in another disk, just replace /dev/sda by its name as reported by the lsblk command.

You will get a boot menu with entries for all your systems.

Whenever you make a change like upgrading a kernel, whatever, in either Debian or Slackware just type from Wheezy:
or:
Don't edit grub.cfg which will be rewritten by grub-mkconfig or update-grub anyway, and unless you be really acquainted with grub don't edit the files in /etc/grub.d that are read by these commands.

PS you really don't need lilo at all, and grub is also available in Slackware.

Remember I told you I am not good with grub.



Try booting into Debian and update grub.

Than after updating grub reboot and see if you can boot into Slackware.

Here is the Grub Manual:-
https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub/grub.html

Thank you Didier and Ztcoracat. I will work thru what you wrote as soon as possible. I just have to fix some other (non computer) stuff right now.

Regards,

Gregor

You're welcome.

Have a good weekend.

There's also...

https://github.com/Richard-Cranium/SlackwareGrub2

Running update-grub as root in Wheezy should give you a grub entry for Slackware.

While it is true that Slackware defaults to lilo during setup in a legacy installation, you can use any boot manager you desire. Slackware comes with grub2, which you can install as a bootloader manually either during installation, or after installation.