I have tried several times to install Slackware 14.2 on my HP Stream laptop (until now I've been using xubuntu). The install seems to go fine until reboot, but then I get a blank screen with a flashing cursor in the upper left corner. The first time I used ELILO and attempted to boot using both the standard boot and also legacy boot. The second time I used LILO and tried to boot using Legacy and then with the standard UEFI boot. No luck. The hard drive is /dev/mmcblk0

I already searched the forums. There were a couple of people who were trying to install Slackware 14.2 on a machine similar to mine as recently as December 2017. The posts went on for pages and and pages, and they never succeeded. But I am not giving up, even if it takes me freaking 2 months. I KNOW there has to be a way to make this work. If a xubuntu auto-installer can successfully install, there is no reason Slackware shouldn't install.

In a related issue, I discovered during the install process that I really don't understand ethernet. How do I determine (now that the computer is bricked) if I have a static or dynamic IP? I'm accessing the internet via a ZTE Corporation wireless router. Obviously, I don't know much.

Update: some time in the next couple of days I will try to install again from scratch, and will record each step I take, and post it on the thread so readers will know exactly what I did. Hopefully then someone will know what I'm doing wrong...or maybe I'll figure it out myself.

Some system info from BIOS:

Notebook Model: HP Stream Notebook PC 11

Product Number: K2L95UA#ABA

System Board ID: 8023

Born On Date: 04/06/2015

Processor Type: Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU N2840 @ 2.16 GHz

Total Memory: 2 GB

BIOS Version: F.08

BIOS Vendor: Insyde

Some info from HP spec sheet:

Wireless Option: 1x1 802.11b/g/n WLAN

Graphics: Intel HD graphics

If additional system info is needed, I will try to find it. Ask me please.

I installed slackware on my hp stream 11. I did have to put a debian kernel on it to get it to boot though. Otherwise my experience was similar to yours. It was a while ago, slackware 14.1? with a 3.10.x slackware kernel, only bootable with debians 3.16.x (jessie?) kernel. For the most part copy the kernel parts from /boot/ and /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/ to the slackware install from the debian one. Or compile a custom kernel in a chroot before first boot. Either way, kind of annoying, but can be made to work.

Shadow 7,

Hmmm...I have a feeling that my install failed in part to a lack of understanding about the steps needed to properly partition for UEFI, although the kernel may have been a problem as well. Do you happen to know if the 14.2 version has a more recent kernel? I'll check and see if I can find out what the kernel is. Thanks for replying.

TuLithu

Slackware 14.2 uses kernel 4.4.14. That should work, right, since it's more recent?

I found an excellent informative video here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-kzq6XRzrc

If you are trying to install Slackware on a laptop, this should help.

I guess there's a "stable" version and "current" version. I was on the "stable" / old version at the time. Some configuration or such to move to current, that I never really got around to learning about slackware. There were enough other annoyances about it that I switched back to debian. No jogl, and needing to be actual root to create distro specific packages. Mostly no jogl, so I couldn't play some games. AKA the java OpenGL stuff. I do like the slackware website, and that most everything "developer" is installed by default. Without being super bloated, well feeling super bloated.