Feeling so lost...
by FTIO from LinuxQuestions.org on (#5H1XJ)
Hi gang,
I downloaded slackware64 current (from AlienBob's site, the fixed one made 4/24) to a flash drive so that I could install Slackware to a new computer I just built. Specs are as follows:
MSI MEG X570 Unify MOBO (that does legacy + UEFI together or pure UEFI in the BIOS)
x2 NVME 500GB SSD's
1 WD Black 2TB HDD
16GB RAM
Here's where things start to go fine. I plug the flash drive into a USB slot and fire up the computer. It finds the flash drive and I get the 'boot:' prompt, then I get to the enter 'root' to get in the flash drive to start partitioning and setup.
I have my partitioning set this way using GPT on everything but the swap:
/dev/nvme0n1 - p1 set as 256MB EFI, p2 as 64GB swap (activated in 'setup'), and 402GB as / (linux file system)
/dev/nvme1n1 - p1 set as /home (465GB)
/dev/sda - p1 set as /storage (1.8TB)
When I get to 'setup', I'm able to install all the software (I use FULL), activate the swap partition, designate all the other partitions, and get through the network setup.
I think here is about where things go bad...when it offeres to make and install lilo. I tried both ways of 'automatic' and then 'expert', yet when I reboot without the Slackware flash drive in the USB slot, the system sees no boot items and drops me to the BIOS.
I then read the Slackware EFI text and it said if I skip installing lilo it would prompt me to install elilo...but I don't ever get that prompt and it just tells me I'm done and asks do I want to reboot now.
I've read one or two other posts here in this thread, but I can't seem to figure out if I'm supposed to boot to startx and copy things to somewhere and just where am I to copy those things since I can't see the EFI partition on the first nvme drive that I set up for booting from.
Somehow things are not at all the same as what I've read from other people doing or have done and I simply can't figure out how or *when* I'm supposed to add/remove/copy/whatever to that EFI partition so that my MOBO will see it and boot to my Slackware on the SSD instead of me having to use the flashdrive all the time. Do I somehow manage this in a file manager such as Krusader or what?
I hope someone understands what I'm trying to say here and just what I'm trying to say is the problem and who will hopefully be able to offer some help to this simpleton.
I downloaded slackware64 current (from AlienBob's site, the fixed one made 4/24) to a flash drive so that I could install Slackware to a new computer I just built. Specs are as follows:
MSI MEG X570 Unify MOBO (that does legacy + UEFI together or pure UEFI in the BIOS)
x2 NVME 500GB SSD's
1 WD Black 2TB HDD
16GB RAM
Here's where things start to go fine. I plug the flash drive into a USB slot and fire up the computer. It finds the flash drive and I get the 'boot:' prompt, then I get to the enter 'root' to get in the flash drive to start partitioning and setup.
I have my partitioning set this way using GPT on everything but the swap:
/dev/nvme0n1 - p1 set as 256MB EFI, p2 as 64GB swap (activated in 'setup'), and 402GB as / (linux file system)
/dev/nvme1n1 - p1 set as /home (465GB)
/dev/sda - p1 set as /storage (1.8TB)
When I get to 'setup', I'm able to install all the software (I use FULL), activate the swap partition, designate all the other partitions, and get through the network setup.
I think here is about where things go bad...when it offeres to make and install lilo. I tried both ways of 'automatic' and then 'expert', yet when I reboot without the Slackware flash drive in the USB slot, the system sees no boot items and drops me to the BIOS.
I then read the Slackware EFI text and it said if I skip installing lilo it would prompt me to install elilo...but I don't ever get that prompt and it just tells me I'm done and asks do I want to reboot now.
I've read one or two other posts here in this thread, but I can't seem to figure out if I'm supposed to boot to startx and copy things to somewhere and just where am I to copy those things since I can't see the EFI partition on the first nvme drive that I set up for booting from.
Somehow things are not at all the same as what I've read from other people doing or have done and I simply can't figure out how or *when* I'm supposed to add/remove/copy/whatever to that EFI partition so that my MOBO will see it and boot to my Slackware on the SSD instead of me having to use the flashdrive all the time. Do I somehow manage this in a file manager such as Krusader or what?
I hope someone understands what I'm trying to say here and just what I'm trying to say is the problem and who will hopefully be able to offer some help to this simpleton.