Problems installing Slackware64-current on new Lenovo Ideapad slim 5 gen 9
by sairum from LinuxQuestions.org on (#6QFJ1)
I bought a Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 5 Gen 9 (R7 with Radeon 840, 32Gb RAM, 1Tb Nvme, 16") without any OS.
Alien's Slackware live (Slack64-current) worked as expected. All devices were detected and are working! Downloaded Slackware64-current iso from 02/09/2024 and proceeded with installation. Partitioned the nvme as
Code:/dev/nvme0n1p1 /boot/efi
/dev/nvme0n1p2 /
/dev/nvme0n1p3 /home
/dev/nvme0n1p4 /tmp
/dev/nvme0n1p5 swapInstallation went fine and after a full install of slackware packages, when I'm asked to install LILO or skip it, I choose to install ELILO instead. However, the installation of ELILO skips directly to network setup (does not ask if I want to add boot menu). In the end ELILO never gets installed into /boot/efi (nvme0n1p1) which remains empty!
Does anyone stumble into something similar? May be this a problem with ELILO which can be solved by installing grub? This is rather odd, because during bootup of the computer I am offered a blank window listing no bootable media. This gets updated and shows Slackware USB installation pen when I plug it in. Shouldn't it show the nvme ssd disk, even if it doesn't have a working bootable partition (remember that it is empty)? I've tried to setupt /boot/efi/EFI/Slackwaremanually to no avail.
Right now I don't have access to the machine, but I'm suspecting of some problem with the UEFI system that cannot cope with ELILO. This afternoon, I'll try to install other distribution (maybe mint) just to check if it's not a hardware problem. Note that I have not set any administrator nor user password on uefi/bios. I don't know if it's necessary. So far it never was for any other machine.
Alien's Slackware live (Slack64-current) worked as expected. All devices were detected and are working! Downloaded Slackware64-current iso from 02/09/2024 and proceeded with installation. Partitioned the nvme as
Code:/dev/nvme0n1p1 /boot/efi
/dev/nvme0n1p2 /
/dev/nvme0n1p3 /home
/dev/nvme0n1p4 /tmp
/dev/nvme0n1p5 swapInstallation went fine and after a full install of slackware packages, when I'm asked to install LILO or skip it, I choose to install ELILO instead. However, the installation of ELILO skips directly to network setup (does not ask if I want to add boot menu). In the end ELILO never gets installed into /boot/efi (nvme0n1p1) which remains empty!
Does anyone stumble into something similar? May be this a problem with ELILO which can be solved by installing grub? This is rather odd, because during bootup of the computer I am offered a blank window listing no bootable media. This gets updated and shows Slackware USB installation pen when I plug it in. Shouldn't it show the nvme ssd disk, even if it doesn't have a working bootable partition (remember that it is empty)? I've tried to setupt /boot/efi/EFI/Slackwaremanually to no avail.
Right now I don't have access to the machine, but I'm suspecting of some problem with the UEFI system that cannot cope with ELILO. This afternoon, I'll try to install other distribution (maybe mint) just to check if it's not a hardware problem. Note that I have not set any administrator nor user password on uefi/bios. I don't know if it's necessary. So far it never was for any other machine.