Does Slackware's Installer work on UEFI?
by BradReed from LinuxQuestions.org on (#6HCZM)
I got a new laptop for Christmas that only supports UEFI, no legacy BIOS options. I have tried and failed a dozen times to get Slackware installed on it. I'm convinced the Slackware installer is defective when it comes to UEFI.
It sees the UEFI partition and offers to format it.
It says LILO won't work, and offers to skip LILO and go to ELILO install, but then it installs my mouse.
Never does it install elilo nor grub.
Also although it claims to make /etc/fstab entries, these never get written.
I tried manually mounting all the drives, and trying to run eliloconfig or to setup grub, but since the Slackware installer auto unmounts everything and apparently removes any chroots, the commands no longer exist on the install disk by the time you can get back to a shell.
Apparently I now have installed the install disk to UEFI, because all I can do is reboot into the install disk, over and over.
Does anyone know how to get a fresh install of Slackware onto a UEFI system and actually have it work?
Thanks in advance.
It sees the UEFI partition and offers to format it.
It says LILO won't work, and offers to skip LILO and go to ELILO install, but then it installs my mouse.
Never does it install elilo nor grub.
Also although it claims to make /etc/fstab entries, these never get written.
I tried manually mounting all the drives, and trying to run eliloconfig or to setup grub, but since the Slackware installer auto unmounts everything and apparently removes any chroots, the commands no longer exist on the install disk by the time you can get back to a shell.
Apparently I now have installed the install disk to UEFI, because all I can do is reboot into the install disk, over and over.
Does anyone know how to get a fresh install of Slackware onto a UEFI system and actually have it work?
Thanks in advance.