Re: EFI for Dummies?

On 25.06.13,06:21, Thomas Altfather Good wrote:
> Hi Didier,
> 
> Yes, naturally I will write it up. I have a blog at thomasgood.com that is
> devoted to photography but also to Slackware. So I have articles about
> using the GIMP to solarise images sitting next to pieces about the Zenitar
> 16mm MF lens and Praktica SLRs that I love.
> 
> Regarding the issue:
> 
> My biggest problem is that I don't have any idea of how to modify the EFI
> partition. I have a hat trick of tools (Chicago Blackhawks won last night
> so hockey metaphors abound): the EFI BOOT directory on 14.1, elilo, and
> efibootmgr. The efibootmgr is not happy because the usb boot stick is
> booting the system in Legacy mode and so no efi variables are appearing in
> /proc.
> 
> And here's the rub - I don't know how to "install" elilo (and the contents
> of the EFI BOOT dir) as I am unaware of any tool like the liloconfig dialog
> script. I reckon I'll try to make an EFI boot stick and turn off Legacy
> support to see what happens as it seems safer to approximate what I want
> rather than to trash my EFI partition.
> 
> BTW, each new version of windows is a catastrophe but 8 is particularly
> "special" - all they did was bury the essential tools even deeper (in you
> know what). My problem is that the EPSON SEIKO iscan driver that worked
> 13.1 doesn't work in 13.37 (haven't tried 14.1) and I need it to scan
> negatives as I continue to shoot film as well as digital.
> 
> PS - note to John: I'd rather use a boot stick than grub2 because my
> experience with slack is that if we give an iteration most issues go away...
> 

Can you use this?

http://xathrya.web.id/blog/2013/01/07/installing-slackware64-14-0-on-uefi-based-machine/


Jostein