newbie problems with uefi update from current on nuc box

I've actually used slackware since the late 90's but this is the first time I've installed on a box that has the uefi boot environment. I made a successful fresh install of current 64 on the box once I had my partitions and bios set up correctly (uefi enabled, no secureboot on bios; efi partition added to the normal swap and filesystem partitions). The setup program recognized the uefi environment and eventually guided me to elilo. All was fine and I could boot.

After this last major update, however, (Feb 9? Feb 10?) I ran into problems. I did my research and thought that I needed to run "eliloconfig" as root. It took me to one of the setup routines that had me do elilo again. I thought all was good. Tried to reboot and it seemed to boot fine, but my keyboard went dead and I couldn't login. Tried a couple of other boot choices and didn't have any luck.

What should I have done instead of eliloconfig after the updated kernel?