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Old 09-21-2013, 05:24 PM   #46
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...Grub2 is offered for those who want it and people complain that it is there. I don't get it. ...
Didn't mean to offend. You know "teaching an old dog new tricks" and all that.
I'm all in with whatever PV decides on for Slackware's new boot loader.
Already studying grub2 manual. I hope it solves the initial efi boot problem.
It looks like it may be able to boot into setup from the install dvd while in UEFI mode.
That would be great news.
John
 
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Old 09-21-2013, 05:30 PM   #47
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Didn't mean to offend. You know "teaching an old dog new tricks" and all that.
I'm all in with whatever PV decides on for Slackware's new boot loader.
LILO won't be going anywhere. GRUB was added purely because it's a nice option for UEFI (and LILO doesn't work there at all). So use it if you like (for UEFI or BIOS)... otherwise, don't.
 
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Old 09-21-2013, 05:44 PM   #48
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[...]

Scarey too. Skype, Thunderbird, and rainlendar2 all quit working.

Fortunately, It was only for a minute.
There is a 64-bit Skype at Slacky with the 32-bit libraries built in.

http://www.slacky.eu/asche64/pkgs/in...er=16&pkg=2111
 
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Old 09-21-2013, 05:48 PM   #49
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LILO won't be going anywhere. GRUB was added purely because it's a nice option for UEFI (and LILO doesn't work there at all). So use it if you like (for UEFI or BIOS)... otherwise, don't.
Very reassuring! Thanks!
 
Old 09-22-2013, 02:05 AM   #50
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Didn't mean to offend.
No offense taken, man
 
Old 09-22-2013, 07:18 AM   #51
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http://ostatic.com/blog/slackware-14-1-on-its-way
 
Old 09-22-2013, 07:59 AM   #52
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Grub2 command-line freeze

I configured Grub2 with:
Code:
grub-install /dev/sda
grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
It works fine. But if in GrubMenu I enter the grub command-line (by 'c') then any of the following commands makes it to freeze:
Code:
help sleep
help linux
help usb
help exit
exit
If I run 'sleep 1' then 'help sleep' does not cause a freeze.

Freeze means that only the power button (in case of 'exit' command also ctrl-alt-del helps) heals it.
 
Old 09-22-2013, 08:11 AM   #53
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LILO won't be going anywhere. GRUB was added purely because it's a nice option for UEFI (and LILO doesn't work there at all). So use it if you like (for UEFI or BIOS)... otherwise, don't.
Is ELILO not a suitable LILO replacement?

BTW: Today I tried grubx64.efi with 14.0: It seems to load the kernel (still 3.8.13 which works fine with ELILO) + initrd and then crashes the machine without further notice. Currently I have no idea how to debug this...
 
Old 09-22-2013, 11:10 AM   #54
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LILO won't be going anywhere. GRUB was added purely because it's a nice option for UEFI (and LILO doesn't work there at all). So use it if you like (for UEFI or BIOS)... otherwise, don't.
And syslinux is still in there. I know because I've been using it (literally, extlinux) for a few years, and have been with -current. I wanted more than what I could do in LILO, didn't want to have to re-run the lilo command every time I changed something, and ended up hating grub almost as soon as I tried it (installed from source back then).

While I can install syslinux from source (I have done so to test out new versions), I'd like to see it stay in Slackware.
 
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Old 09-22-2013, 08:41 PM   #55
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Will -current keep following newer versions of Firefox or is -current also staying on 24.*-esr?
 
Old 09-22-2013, 08:48 PM   #56
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Will -current keep following newer versions of Firefox or is -current also staying on 24.*-esr?
After 14.1 is released, -current will probably follow the latest versions of Firefox.
 
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Old 09-22-2013, 11:50 PM   #57
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Okay, thank you for letting us know Pat.
 
Old 09-23-2013, 12:52 AM   #58
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I just upgraded a fresh install of Slackware 14.0 to -current today, following the instructions provided on SlackDocs. The upgrade went without any issues. Not that I would expect otherwise... It therefore seems highly likely that an up-to-date version of Slackware 14.0 would also upgrade to -current without issue. No doubt upgrades to the future release of Slackware 14.1 would similarly be flawless.
I'll prepare alpha releases of updated mirror lists for slackpkg this week. This time I'll additionally look for rsync mirrors for the mirrors.slackware.com website, and also include armedslack in addition to the x86 and x86_64 architectures for slackpkg. I think I'm correct in saying that Slackware releases aren't available for S/390 anymore, so I'll encourage Pat to remove that list from the slackpkg package. Hopefully I'll finalise the lists within a few weeks so that it doesn't interfere with the Slackware 14.1 release date (so to speak). I'll bump the relevant thread I created last year and post the pre- and final releases of the updated lists there. Anyway, happy Slacking!
 
Old 09-23-2013, 05:49 AM   #59
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Yeah, I am also more comfortable with lilo and like how it works. When 14.1 comes out I may try GRUB on one of my boxes just for the novelty.
As always, use whatever works for you. I moved to grub because now and then I appreciate that I can just modify the boot command line, especially the kernel options or the run level, at boot time. Very handy when for some reason I want to boot on runlevel 3 (I usually go directly to 4) or when I run into a buggy kernel (I tend to compile my own kernels to test newer ones).
Funily, grub seems a bit more complicated in its 2.0 version than what it was in the legacy one, but there are enough tutorials on the web to quickly get the hand of it. It's rather simple.
Well, both works, happy to see grub in Slack since I use it.
What I did, to avoid having many entries called "Slackware 14" as someone told, is to go into /etc/grub.d, created one script per kernel I want to boot, as "0*_slackware_perso_*" and using the following syntax :

Code:
#!/bin/sh -e
cat << EOF
menuentry "Slackware Linux 3.11.1-vdb" {
  set root=(hd0,1)
  linux /boot/3.11.1-vdb root=/dev/sda1 ro resume=/dev/sda2 radeon.dpm=1
}
EOF
I numbered them in the order of apparence that I wanted, then removed execution rights (chmod -x) to the "10_linux", "20_linux_xen" and "30_os-prober" scripts, which do the autodetection I want to avoid.
Then a simple "grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg" compiles the changes and with the reboot, I just have the entries I created by myself.
It was actually much simpler to upgrade from grub legacy than I feared. Once the package was upgraded, a simple "grub-install /dev/sda" was enough to install the new grub on the MBR and set up the various files, then I did my configuration as above.
 
Old 09-23-2013, 07:05 AM   #60
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[..] I moved to grub because now and then I appreciate that I can just modify the boot command line, especially the kernel options or the run level, at boot time. Very handy when for some reason I want to boot on runlevel 3 (I usually go directly to 4) [...]
At boot time, when you see lilo's screen hit [Tab], and complete your command line, e.g.
Code:
Linux 3
Of course you can set any kernel or modules parameters that way.

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