Help needed for motherboard replacement, going from BIOS to UEFI
by Martinus2u from LinuxQuestions.org on (#5C5ZR)
Hi slackers,
I need to move my existing -current installation to a new motherboard. The catch is, the new motherboard will boot in UEFI mode, so I have a bit of a chicken-and-egg situation.
I will stick a new M2 SSD into the mobo to host the root fs. My idea is to boot a Linux Mint live usb stick I have lying around, and set up the EFI partition on the M2 SSD as well as the Slackware root fs.
My question is how to make the EFI partition boot Slackware. I did some homework and read README_UEFI.TXT and the elilo man page. From that I understand that I need to set up /EFI/Slackware or /EFI/BOOT, containing elilo.efi (or BOOTX86.EFI), elilo.conf, the kernel(s) and initrd.gz.
Can someone post a sample elilo.conf?
Alternatively, can I use the eliloconfig script either in advance (with the old BIOS-based motherboard), or when booted from the usb stick?
Thanks in advance
I need to move my existing -current installation to a new motherboard. The catch is, the new motherboard will boot in UEFI mode, so I have a bit of a chicken-and-egg situation.
I will stick a new M2 SSD into the mobo to host the root fs. My idea is to boot a Linux Mint live usb stick I have lying around, and set up the EFI partition on the M2 SSD as well as the Slackware root fs.
My question is how to make the EFI partition boot Slackware. I did some homework and read README_UEFI.TXT and the elilo man page. From that I understand that I need to set up /EFI/Slackware or /EFI/BOOT, containing elilo.efi (or BOOTX86.EFI), elilo.conf, the kernel(s) and initrd.gz.
Can someone post a sample elilo.conf?
Alternatively, can I use the eliloconfig script either in advance (with the old BIOS-based motherboard), or when booted from the usb stick?
Thanks in advance