chrisVV |
06-26-2019 08:46 AM |
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Originally Posted by rivercat
(Post 6009243)
So does slackware setup install Elilo by default, or is it more common to use UEFI boards in BIOS-mode? Something I just heard about called the Compatibility Support Module.
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You are overthinking this. If you boot up your installation media (disk or stick) in UEFI mode then the slackware installation scripts will detect this (if will check whether the /sys/firmware/efi directory exists) and if so offer to run eliloconfig for you during installation, which will put an entry in the UEFI boot menu for slackware. If you boot up in MBR/BIOS/legacy mode via the compatibility support module then it won't. Make your choice at install time.
Read the README_UEFI.TXT file. The caveat from that file which is worth emphasizing is that, for a slackware UEFI installation to proceed successfully on a computer which has no other OS on it yet, your computer probably needs to have a UEFI system partition available to it when eliloconfig would run. If it doesn't you may need to create one during installation manually when you set up your partitions and file systems (200MB should be enough). I doubt slackware does this automatically where the ESP is missing, but I am not sure: on a UEFI computer which already has some other linux distribution installed, or has some other OS such as windows installed, then this partition will already exist. My UEFI computers were in that position when I installed slackware.
Whether elilo is still maintained by upstram is irrelevant. It is what slackware uses for a UEFI installation. After installation is complete, you can switch to grub or rEFInd if you want. (I have.)
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