Re: UEFI Follies

On Wednesday, February 8, 2017, Thomas Altfather Good via slackware <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Hey all,
>
> I can't fathom how to get EFI working.
>
> HP p2-1334 with Slack 14.2.
>
> I had formatted the entire drive and then made an EFI/boot directory on
> /dev/sda1 with the id set to EF00 and fstype DOS.
>
> However, no matter what method I employed (I tried several) to populate
> this directory with either syslinux or elilo I couldn't get the machine to
> boot.
>
> Can someone advise me on the easiest way to get this box to boot?
> /EFI/boot still exists but is currently empty as I am booting off a
> usbstick and if I place anything the efi directory the machine hangs until
> I got into the BIOS and tell it to boot off of a bootstick.
>

Hey Thomas,

I found EFI very confusing, I wrote up a little guide for myself that you
may find useful, feel free to ping me if you have questions or suggestions:

https://github.com/ryanpcmcquen/linuxTweaks/blob/master/slackware/EFI/efiInstall.txt



-- 
- Ryan
[ryanpcmcquen.org]

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