From: forkosh@panix.com
Henrik Carlqvist wrote:
> On Wed, 08 Feb 2023 09:10:12 +0000, John Forkosh wrote:
>> the latest (-current64 as of 2/7/23)
>
> I have only experience from stable versions of Slackware like 15.0
> and older.
Yeah, I think I've had this problem before (last install on this
non-uefi box was 8/19/21 using 15.0x64 rc1), but not quite sure.
>> warned me it couldn't find any efi partitions, and that lilo
>> wouldn't work (which indeed it didn't)
>
> In which way did not lilo work?
"corrupt partition" fatal warnings. Running lilo -P ignore let
it run to completion, but didn't actually install on root block
("boot = /dev/sda4" in lilo.conf), as far as I can tell.
> Did it complain when you ran lilo to install it in MBR?
Not at all, but that was an even older install on /dev/sda1,
from -current64 as of 9/1/19.
> Did it fail to boot? If so, what did you see on your screen at that
> failure?
Booted just fine. But I first booted into the above-mentioned
sda1 partition, edited its /etc/lilo.conf to add a section
for the new sda4 install...
# Linux bootable partition config begins
image = /mnt/sda4/boot/vmlinuz
root = /dev/sda4
label = slk150x64sda4
read-only # Partitions should be mounted read-only for checking
# Linux bootable partition config ends
and issued a mount /mnt/sda4/ /dev/sda4 to make that partition
visible. Then reran lilo so it would show up on boot menu. And this
lilo.conf has "boot = /dev/sda" so that it's the 9/1/19 slack15
that's installing on the mbr. And then rebooting indeed showed the
new partition on the boot menu, and booted into it without a hiccup.
> During the years I have mostly run lilo to boot Slackware installations.
> To be able to do that I have on newer machines had to enable legacy boot
> in CMOS setup.
Right. Now that you mention it, I recall "legacy boot" on some bioses.
I'll have to check that on this box's bios and see if maybe it's been
somehow reset. (And I also further checked that usbimg2disk.sh script,
which I usually run as
./usbimg2disk.sh -f -s slackware64-current-07Feb2023 -o /dev/sdc
and I'm wondering if I should omit the -f and format the stick
myself before running usbimg2disk.)
> On some newer machines I have booted with UEFI on GPT
> partitions with some other bootloader than lilo, but to my surprise I
> have also found that lilo seems to work with a GPT partition and legacy
> boot.
Good to know. I've been keeping my boot disks to 2TB (usually
a 2.5" 1TB ssd) so that I could continue using fdisk. But I guess
maybe that's not necessary.
> regards Henrik
Thanks for all the help.
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