I've setup a PXE server per instructions in "usb-and-pxe-installers/" to network boot 14.1 and Current and install via NFS. The DHCP is handled via OpenWRT 15.05 on a Netgear router, PXE server is Slackware32-14.1 and syslinux-4.06.
Everything work ok on both 32- and 64-bit systems with standard BIOS to boot and install Slackware. In each case I select from a menu to boot the correct kernel (32 or 64). However, when booting via PXE on UEFI systems, eliloconfig is not used - only liloconfig. Thus, the /dev/sda1 EFI partition (boot/efi, vfat) is not updated -even on a clean install with repartitioned, reformatted hard drive. Running eliloconfig after installation and before reboot does nothing.
I can manually copy the appropriate files over to the EFI partition as a workaround. I would prefer to use PXE instead of DVD/USB.
There seems to be a glitch somewhere, or is it because PXE boots the UEFI system initially as 32 bit?
Code:
# ls -gG --group-directories-first
total 1448
drwxr-xr-x 2 4096 Dec 20 18:40 pxelinux.cfg/
drwxr-xr-x 3 4096 Dec 20 18:39 slackware-14.1/
drwxr-xr-x 3 4096 Jul 14 2015 slackware-current/
drwxr-xr-x 3 4096 Jul 14 2015 slackware64-current/
-rw-r--r-- 1 38568 Mar 11 2013 chain.c32
-rw-r--r-- 1 347736 Mar 11 2013 hdt.c32
-rw-r--r-- 1 1312 Mar 11 2013 ifcpu64.c32
-rw-r--r-- 1 55012 Mar 11 2013 menu.c32
-rw-r--r-- 1 817106 Oct 23 2013 pci.ids
-rw-r--r-- 1 239 Mar 11 2013 poweroff.com
-rw-r--r-- 1 26889 Mar 11 2013 pxelinux.0
-rw-r--r-- 1 800 Mar 11 2013 reboot.c32
-rw-r--r-- 1 153872 Mar 11 2013 vesamenu.c32
-rw-r--r-- 1 2960 Mar 11 2013 whichsys.c32
# ls -gG pxelinux.cfg/
total 108
-rw-r--r-- 1 66491 Jul 15 2009 SlackGrey.jpg
-rw-r--r-- 1 899 Dec 20 18:40 default
-rw-r--r-- 1 1289 Dec 17 15:34 default.inc
-rw-r--r-- 1 9283 Dec 6 2008 kelin4.jpg
-rw-r--r-- 1 895 Dec 20 18:36 slackware.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 458 Dec 17 15:36 slackware64.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 10289 Nov 28 15:05 swlogo.png
Code:
cat slackware.conf
# Slackware Installation menu
#
MENU INCLUDE /pxelinux.cfg/default.inc
menu title Slackware x86 Installation Menu
LABEL return
MENU LABEL ^0 Return to Main Menu
KERNEL vesamenu.c32
APPEND pxelinux.cfg/default
label current-hugesmp.s
menu label ^1 Slackware-current, Huge SMP kernel
kernel slackware-current/kernels/hugesmp.s/bzImage
append initrd=slackware-current/initrd.img load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=0 rw SLACK_KERNEL=hugesmp.s
label current-huge.s
menu label ^2 Slackware-current, Huge non-SMP kernel
kernel slackware-current/kernels/huge.s/bzImage
append initrd=slackware-current/initrd.img load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=0 rw SLACK_KERNEL=huge.s
label stable-huge.s
menu label ^3 Slackware-14.1, Huge SMP kernel
kernel slackware-14.1/kernels/huge.s/bzImage
append initrd=slackware-14.1/initrd.img load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=0 rw SLACK_KERNEL=huge.s
cat slackware64.conf
# Slackware64 Installation menu
#
MENU INCLUDE /pxelinux.cfg/default.inc
menu title Slackware Intel/AMD x64 Installation Menu
LABEL return
MENU LABEL ^0 Return to Main Menu
KERNEL vesamenu.c32
APPEND pxelinux.cfg/default
label current-huge.s
menu label ^1 Slackware x64 current, Huge kernel
kernel slackware64-current/kernels/huge.s/bzImage
append initrd=slackware64-current/initrd.img load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=0 rw SLACK_KERNEL=huge.s
Slackware64-14.2(current) 03FEB2016 eliloconfig and PXE boot installation
