There have been many excellent replies in this thread, better replies than I would be able to give as I haven't used elilo myself. However, a generic reply which might be useful for others is the following:

At the end of the Slackware installation your system is configured and you will get asked a few questions about how you want your system configured. Those questions are asked by scripts in /var/log/setup/ .

In the case of elilo the script is /var/log/setup/setup.ll.eliloconfig .
Looking at that script you can see that it simply calls /usr/sbin/eliloconfig which proves the first answer in this thread right.

regards Henrik

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Hello, I am not questioning the help that has been given to me, which I consider all excellent and I thank you very much, the problem is that I do not understand this issue of refind or elilo, I do not know what I have to put, nor where I have to put it I just can't figure it out no matter how hard I try.

Install the way PV wants Slackware installed. After it works make your changes.
HTH
john

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Hello. at the end of the file /boot/efi/EFI/refind/refind.conf

This is what I have put now as a result of what you have told me and everything is still the same.


menuentry Slackware {
icon EFI/icons/slackware-banner.png
loader EFI/vmlinuz.efi
initrd -o /boot/initrd.gz
}

But I repeat, the problem is that I do not understand it, that is more or less like one of the examples and I do not know if putting it at the end, as I have put it, it is already activated, it is valid or not, etc, I do not know how it is done.

What is PV?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Volkerding

It’s not bad advice to use the default tools , in this case elilo. However I have run into edge cases where elilo doesn’t work. But you could login as root on a terminal and then Run pkgtool , and then go to setup and rerun the setup script for Eilo.

His saying you need to make sure the generic kernel and the initrd are in the same location that is specified in the refind.conf . As I explained I copied the generic kernel to /boot/efi/EFI and that entry in refind.conf is how I renamed it. The initrd.gz doesn’t need renamed (if your using that refind entry I shared) just needs copied to /boot/efi/EFI . The generic kernel should be found in /boot/ and named something like vmlinux-generic-$someversion

The Boss.

Now, I know perfectly well who Patrick Volkerding is, I've read a lot about him, but of course, since we weren't talking about him, suddenly PV, well, he didn't tell me anything.

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I don't know how all this is done, you will have to explain it to me step by step, if you see fit.

in boot I get this:

bash-5.1# cd /boot
bash-5.1# ls
config initrd-tree System.map-generic-5.15.63
config-generic-5.15.63.x64 inside.bmp System.map-huge-5.15.63
config-huge-5.15.63.x64 inside.dat tuxlogo.bmp
efi onlyblue.bmp tuxlogo.dat
elilo.conf onlyblue.dat vmlinuz
elilo-ia32.efi README.initrd vmlinuz-generic
elilo-x86_64.efi refind_linux.conf vmlinuz-generic-5.15.63
grub slack.bmp vmlinuz-huge
initrd.gz System.map vmlinuz-huge-5.15.63

It seems that the vmlinuz-generic is there, but I copy and paste and I don't know why it doesn't come out whole

Ok I have already copied the generic kerner where you tell me, but I don't understand what you say next, this:

and that entry in refind.conf

What input are you referring to?

ok thanks, I already have that, the next step is the one I don't understand

The entry in refind.conf that you said you copied and pasted to the end of your refind.conf... that refind.conf should be in /boot/efi/EFI/refind/ (if we're following the example I set)... much of this is just preference. You can define it, how you like, in the refind.conf.

also the initrd should be copied to the same location

You'll need to update the kernel and make a new initrd and copy those each time to that location... whenever you change kernels e.g. you upgrade the kernel.

From the example you added to your refind.conf
the efi partition (the partition that has or the menuentry expects to have) will later be mounted to /boot/efi it contains a folder EFI... so in this example EFI folder sits in the root of the partition. That menuentry defines for refind the kernel to use and the intitrd (their names and locations).

BUT note your error here, "initrd -o /boot/initrd.gz" should be: initrd EFI/initrd.gz