Re: UEFI Follies

Thanks Ryan!

I'll give it go after some coffee (it's nice day for a walk to the coffee
shop, here in NYC it's 60F and sunny - tomorrow of course we get 36F and 10
inches of snow, never trust a Groundhog being the lesson I suppose).

I'll try method one first - I thought perhaps the directory structure would
require /efi/boot/EFI/boot but thought maybe I was just being dense. I'll
try it...and after maybe I can get a gig at the Department of Redundancy
Department.

Best - and thanks again,
Tom

On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 1:26 PM, Ryan P.C. McQuen <
[email protected]> wrote:

>
>
> 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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