From: Henrik.Carlqvist@deadspam.com   
      
   On Sun, 09 Mar 2025 19:26:00 +0100, Marco Moock wrote:   
      
   > On 08.03.2025 11:54 Uhr Henrik Carlqvist wrote:   
   >   
   >> However, if it would be to any use for you I have successfully booted   
   >> Slackware 15.0 in EFI mode both on pysical hardware and on virtual   
   >> machines run in qemu. Instead of GRUB I use syslinux/extlinux but I do   
   >> not use syslinux 4.07 which is shipped with Slackware, instead I use   
   >> Syslinux version 6.03. I have used the same method also on earlier   
   >> version 14.2 of Slackware.   
   >   
   > Was there a special reason to go this way?   
      
   My main reason for choosing syslinux back then was that I was familiar   
   with the bootloader since previosly having used it to create bootable   
   optical media and pxe network booting. I also prefer the syntax of   
   syslinux configuration files where disks and partitions are named the   
   same way as the Linux kernel sees them (e g /dev/sda and /dev/sda1)   
   instead of something like hd0. Another reason for me to avoid GRUB during   
   the years of MBR booting is that it has required a partition of its own   
   to boot such systems, LILO has been doing fine without any special   
   partition.   
      
   Today syslinux is considered abandonware, but it still seems to be   
   working fine booting UEFI systems for me and I have kept using this   
   method. The day it stops working I will need to replace it. Maybe I will   
   reluctantly replace it with grub, maybe I will replace it with something   
   else like limine.   
      
   regards Henrik   
      
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