UEFI and Slackware
by hitest from LinuxQuestions.org on (#5C7ZD)
Greetings,
I've been slacking since 2004 (version 10.0). Up until yesterday I've been able to run Slackware with a BIOS MBR installation. I have a Dell Lattitude running an i7 CPU, a 455 GB SSD, with 16 GBB RAM. A traditional installation doesn't work on the unit. I preformed a UEFI installation yesterday using Slackware64-current. It went smoothly. I found these resources on the Internet.
https://docs.slackware.com/howtos:sl..._uefi_hardware
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZeJd5JPQro&t=1567s
I found the youtube video to be excellent. He walks you through partitioning your drive with an EFI partition, a swap partition, and a root partition. He likes to use GRUB. I chose the Slackware default, elilo, which worked very well.
I've been slacking since 2004 (version 10.0). Up until yesterday I've been able to run Slackware with a BIOS MBR installation. I have a Dell Lattitude running an i7 CPU, a 455 GB SSD, with 16 GBB RAM. A traditional installation doesn't work on the unit. I preformed a UEFI installation yesterday using Slackware64-current. It went smoothly. I found these resources on the Internet.
https://docs.slackware.com/howtos:sl..._uefi_hardware
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZeJd5JPQro&t=1567s
I found the youtube video to be excellent. He walks you through partitioning your drive with an EFI partition, a swap partition, and a root partition. He likes to use GRUB. I chose the Slackware default, elilo, which worked very well.