A few years ago now, I had some trouble with my UEFI motherboard forgetting my hard disk. I managed to get it fixed and that was that for a while.

Today, I needed to use my Linux box to check another drive. While I didn't unplug my root drive, my motherboard decided to take advantage of the situation and forget the boot drive again. What fun.

So I throw in my Slackware 14.1 x64 disk, set up my partitions and do the reconfigure. When it asks me if I want to install LILO, this time I say yes since hopefully it will get me out of the UEFI hole, right?

Well, now when it gets to trying to mount the root, it tells me that vg0/lvroot isn't available. This is on both the UEFI boot and the legacy boot. I'm figuring lvm doesn't work straight from the kernel and requires an initrd which, for some reason, didn't get set up (maybe?). I can see where this isn't specified in the lilo.conf but everything in /dev/sda1 (/boot) is as it has always been so I'm not quite sure why the UEFI boot is giving me this issue. The again, I'm a bit at sea with the UEFI stuff and wish I'd just stuck with legacy.

Quick update: Back to basics with LILO, I copied the initrd from the efi folders into boot, added it to lilo.conf and installed it and that got me up when I forced a legacy boot. If I can make that the default, I will probably consider it done assuming other weirdness doesn't occur.

2AM I need some sleep guess is that elilo needs to be told the same but I have no idea how to do that and currently don't care much Night...