Does anyone here have experience with dualbooting Slackware current, under GPT, with Windows? I'll be getting a new computer on Friday and will be looking forward to checking out Slackware again (was a distro hopper for a while until I met Slackware) and intend on dual booting (shared computer).
It's going to be my main OS but having a small windows partition would be useful. This Asus laptop seems to be using UEFI but they don't include secure-boot unless it came with Windows 8. It didn't, which is great. I've been reading over the UEFI readme and it just seems too simple. Is it really that straight forward?

Dual-boot is working fine using either rEFInd or GRUB (included with Slackware). rEFInd is very easy to setup.

I'm far from an expert, but my brief experience with a Toshiba P55 has led me to the conclusion that, on the face of it, using UEFI to set up various boot configurations is fairly straightforward, and rEFInd does seem like a great solution. However, it seems to be complicated by various UEFI implementations that are incomplete, buggy or non-compliant along with OEM firmware that may do odd things.

For example, on the Toshiba which has an AMI UEFI, I have all the boot stuff set up but the EFI offers no way to select the boot image at boot-time (only the device) and it resets the preferred boot image order at each boot. So I can use efibootmgr to set the NVRAM boot order to start rEFInd instead of Windows and confirm that it is set, but as soon as the machine is rebooted, it reorders the entries and boots Windows. And, though Windows will allow me to make a one-time selection of rEFInd on the next boot, I have had no success in finding a way to set the boot order persistently from Windows.

So, I think it's a little bit hit-or-miss whether any given piece of hardware is truly straightforward to make work.

Dave

I think if you install rEFInd as \EFI\BOOT\BOOTX64.EFI (or maybe BOOT.EFI) that it'll always come up as default. Well, depending on just how non-compliant your UEFI implementation is.

Thanks for the tip, Patrick. I'll try that.

Dave

Windows itself also resets the EFI boot order. You can change that using:
as described in http://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/installing.html#windows

Thanks for the advice guys (and gals if you're there. Haven't looked at your profiles so don't know yet) and I'm honoured to have our glorious leader say something in my thread.
Laptop arrived today actually and less than a day of Windows 7 and I'm already sick of it. Updates, shut down, more updates, shutdown, more updates...
Tomorrow I'm definitely sticking Slackware on it and now, I couldn't care less if Windows was lost. Any time I'm using it, I just wonder why people are buying this.
The only thing going for Windows is compatibility. This laptop has an i7 and Windows makes it feel as if it's a 7 year old Celeron. Maybe it'll be better once the updates finish but still, this is not what I plan on using day to day.
/end rant

I just got 14.1 RC-3 running on my Dell inspiron 15 with Windows 8.
Took just a little extra configuring, but it is working great now.
Slackware is beautiful!I need Windows for a couple of things, so 8 is still on here.

Thanks. I feel stupid. I had tried bcdedit before and it hadn't worked, but it turns out I had failed to run it as admin.

I also had to replace the fallback boot file(bootx64.efi) to use rEFInd and stop Windows from booting

http://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/installing.html#naming