Hi,

I'm about to install 14.1 on a Windows 8 notebook. As this is my first attempt with uefi, I was wondering if there are any special considerations about using luks and lvm in the context of uefi?

Thanks,
Brian

Well of course your /boot/efi and /boot partitions can't be on lvm or luks, but that's nothing new really. I haven't seen any other problems with those three things. Read the UEFI boot instructions carefully; the efi partition needs to be separate with a different identifier, and there is the issue of using GPT. If you want to see what I did you can look at http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...re-14-1-35788/
Don't forget to add the usbhid modules for a usb keyboard (I somehow managed to forget that in my initial attempt)

Thanks for the info and the link. Did you ever figure out the keyboard issue?

Brian

I recently did an install with UEFI and LUKS (not LVM... only using one other partition) and I had a keyboard issue as well. My solution was to make sure ohci_pci was in initrd.gz

Yes, I thought I had a later blog post about it, but here it is, with my latest kernel:

Just to follow up and close this thread:

So the install succeeded and the luks/lvm part was really no different from non-uefi installs. Where I lost a lot of time was:

1. not realizing that the usb install stick created by usbimg2disk.sh needs to be modified to boot by moving the EFI stuff to the root directory

2. putting the kernel, elilo.conf and initrd in the Boot sub-directory of the EFI partition. These things need to be in the Slackware sub-directory instead (at least on my system).

I did lose a lot of time with these two problems, but other than that there was no real difference.

Thanks for all who gave me input.

Brian