[SOLVED] BIOS boot menu hell (Slackware live edition)
by chexmix from LinuxQuestions.org on (#6MT5H)
Hi all -
I hate posting this, because I'm pretty sure it will turn out to be something stupid (or I'll post it and find the answer 3 minutes later and feel like an idiot).
First, let me say that every time I have to deal with the BIOS settings on a computer, I wind up feeling like part of my brain was removed with a runcible spoon. I'm not sure why this is.
Anyway. I have a cheapish laptop (Lenovo 11e) that had an install of Slack-current on it. I managed to screw this up in an abortive effort at replacing the hard drive, so have been trying to get Slack back on the machine.
Eventually I loaded Slackware Live Edition onto a DVD-ROM (one of the things I've never seemed to be able to make happen is for this laptop to boot off a thumb drive), and I've installed it.
When I boot up the machine, I duly get the BIOS "Boot Menu," and Slackware is the first entry. HOWEVER, as has been happening for what feels like epochs now, absolutely nothing happens when I highlight the entry and hit Enter. There's a flicker, and the menu pops back into view (the second entry in the menu is the machine's hard drive ... nothing happens when I try to boot from there, either). It's like the menu entries don't 'attach to' or 'point to' anything ... and I've tried this with Secure Boot enabled and with it disabled, both.
I followed the Slackware Live Edition instructions to install elilo (I'd been expecting grub, based on some of the docs I'd read, but whatever) to the /boot/efi volume.
Has anyone run into this before? I feel like it must be something stupid I've done in the BIOS settings, and I've Googled and Googled til my Googler is sore, but ...
Any hints will be appreciated.
Thx,
Glenn
I hate posting this, because I'm pretty sure it will turn out to be something stupid (or I'll post it and find the answer 3 minutes later and feel like an idiot).
First, let me say that every time I have to deal with the BIOS settings on a computer, I wind up feeling like part of my brain was removed with a runcible spoon. I'm not sure why this is.
Anyway. I have a cheapish laptop (Lenovo 11e) that had an install of Slack-current on it. I managed to screw this up in an abortive effort at replacing the hard drive, so have been trying to get Slack back on the machine.
Eventually I loaded Slackware Live Edition onto a DVD-ROM (one of the things I've never seemed to be able to make happen is for this laptop to boot off a thumb drive), and I've installed it.
When I boot up the machine, I duly get the BIOS "Boot Menu," and Slackware is the first entry. HOWEVER, as has been happening for what feels like epochs now, absolutely nothing happens when I highlight the entry and hit Enter. There's a flicker, and the menu pops back into view (the second entry in the menu is the machine's hard drive ... nothing happens when I try to boot from there, either). It's like the menu entries don't 'attach to' or 'point to' anything ... and I've tried this with Secure Boot enabled and with it disabled, both.
I followed the Slackware Live Edition instructions to install elilo (I'd been expecting grub, based on some of the docs I'd read, but whatever) to the /boot/efi volume.
Has anyone run into this before? I feel like it must be something stupid I've done in the BIOS settings, and I've Googled and Googled til my Googler is sore, but ...
Any hints will be appreciated.
Thx,
Glenn