Hello Everyone,

Contrary to the typical use case, I would like to use elilo in a way, that the kernel and initrd images would still reside on a dedicated ext4 GUID partition.
The typical use case being the kernel and initrd resising next to the bootloader on the EFT System Partition.

If I wish to keep my kernels on /boot, how should I specify that to elilo? What should the device path look like?
Thank you in advance!

The kernel boot config entries are in the boot devices elilo.conf file.

http://unix.stackexchange.com/questi...fi-boot-loader

http://docstore.mik.ua/manuals/hp-ux...B/ch05s21.html

Make sure you save a backup copy of elilo.conf.

I apologize if you already know this but the kernel and initrd are installed to the /boot partition. When eliloconfig is run after the kernel package is installed, it copies the kernel and initrd (if required) to the the Slackware directory on the ESP partition. So the kernel remains in /boot, it's just not the copy that is being booted. After each kernel update, you need to run eliloconfig similar to running lilo -v on legacy systems.

As far as i know, you can't. elilo cannot read ext4 file systems, nor does it look like it can read across file systems. The only way that it may be possible using elilo (again, that I know of) is to change your /boot partition to a FAT32 and copy elilo.efi, elilo.config along with the kernel and initrd to it. Then using efibootmgr, create a boot menu entry in EFI firmware NVRAM that points to the elilo.efi in the /boot partition. I believe that rEFInd can be configured to boot the kernel directly from the /boot directory as the kernel had been configures as and EFI stub loader.

Personally, in either case I don't think it's worth the effort.

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If that is in deed the case, then I will have to revise my original plans.
I thought, that elilo was capable of loading kernel/initrd images from different Linux partitions, I just thought, that there weren't many example configs for that on the web. (And I suspected that to be the reason why I didn't find any.)
I just needed confirmation whether that was possible or not.

You might me right with that. I'm thinking of removing my /boot partition, and enlarge my ESP to use up the extra space originally allocated for /boot. I will put the contents of /boot partition to my root fs' /boot directory, thereby clearing things up.

Thanks for your help!

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