How to keep slackware installation and switch to EFI boot?
by Pipeline79 from LinuxQuestions.org on (#4Z2AV)
I have a laptop with 2 ssds available, one 256G, one 1Tb.
Currently I have slackware-current installed on the smaller one, and I'm very happy with it. However, I've installed it with an MBR partition table and no EFI boot partition.
The laptop is capable of booting from efi, legacy or both.
I've just found that I can't insert a particular module into the slackware kernel, because it needs signing by some utility called mokutil and my 'system doesn't support efi variables'. Besides that, I'd like to try using efi/gpt anyway.
Would it be possible to put the efi partition on the other ssd and continue to boot into the installation I already have, which is using regular lilo at the moment?
Suggestions that other people would do here? I have plenty of unused space to move things around, just don't want to have to do a new installation and reconfigure everything I've already done.
Currently I have slackware-current installed on the smaller one, and I'm very happy with it. However, I've installed it with an MBR partition table and no EFI boot partition.
The laptop is capable of booting from efi, legacy or both.
I've just found that I can't insert a particular module into the slackware kernel, because it needs signing by some utility called mokutil and my 'system doesn't support efi variables'. Besides that, I'd like to try using efi/gpt anyway.
Would it be possible to put the efi partition on the other ssd and continue to boot into the installation I already have, which is using regular lilo at the moment?
Suggestions that other people would do here? I have plenty of unused space to move things around, just don't want to have to do a new installation and reconfigure everything I've already done.