Booting issues on UEFI System
by nebulein from LinuxQuestions.org on (#5QK6E)
Hi,
I am struggling with an install on an Asus P41 PC (Pentium Silver N6000, SoC, Jasper Lake). The system is UEFI-Only. If I had known that, I would have bought something else.
OS is Slackware64-current.
The installer stick doesn't boot, It hangs after "Loading Kernel.../ Loading initrd.gz". I have had that before on my Dell XPS 13 and installed via liveslack. So far, so good. The system is installed, but elilo fails to boot.
I have searched the forums and tried various options like "vga=normal"(worked on the Dell) or "video=efifb:off" or "video=efifb:width:1024,height:768". So far nothing works. The system hangs at "Loading Kernel, Loading Initrd".
Any hints how to resolve this? How to even determine where the problem is? The system doesn't talk much at this stage of the boot process.
Liveslak uses grub and works, so i presume it is an elilo issue. Should I better use grub? In like 15 years with Linux I never used grub so far, so I am an absolute beginner. Are there an up-to-date tutorial how to use grub on slackware-current?
Ben
I am struggling with an install on an Asus P41 PC (Pentium Silver N6000, SoC, Jasper Lake). The system is UEFI-Only. If I had known that, I would have bought something else.
OS is Slackware64-current.
The installer stick doesn't boot, It hangs after "Loading Kernel.../ Loading initrd.gz". I have had that before on my Dell XPS 13 and installed via liveslack. So far, so good. The system is installed, but elilo fails to boot.
I have searched the forums and tried various options like "vga=normal"(worked on the Dell) or "video=efifb:off" or "video=efifb:width:1024,height:768". So far nothing works. The system hangs at "Loading Kernel, Loading Initrd".
Any hints how to resolve this? How to even determine where the problem is? The system doesn't talk much at this stage of the boot process.
Liveslak uses grub and works, so i presume it is an elilo issue. Should I better use grub? In like 15 years with Linux I never used grub so far, so I am an absolute beginner. Are there an up-to-date tutorial how to use grub on slackware-current?
Ben