From: apple.universe@posteo.net   
      
   with  Henrik Carlqvist wrote:   
   > On Sun, 09 Mar 2025 19:26:00 +0100, Marco Moock wrote:   
   >> On 08.03.2025 11:54 Uhr Henrik Carlqvist wrote:   
      
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   >> Was there a special reason to go this way?   
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   > 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.   
      
   Since LQ went full ballistic on elinks I'm LQ-disabled (and then my   
   login went bust there, and I'm reluctant to re-create user there now).   
   However, can anyone LQ-enabled comment why syslinux is outdated in The   
   Slackware Proper?  (From what I see in the changelog, syslinux has   
   invested huge work in UEFI.)   
      
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   > LILO has been doing fine without any special partition.   
      
   (Just adding another datapoint.)  I've tried setup2hd script of   
   liveslack fame.  By itself it was utter (expected) disaster.  But!  Lilo   
   has successfully booted from this abomination.  From what I've read   
   setting lilo onto non-first IDE would require some dark magic.  Wake up,   
   sheeple!  Lilo rocks!   
      
   What I did:   
      
   (1) liloconfig is useles.   
      
   (2) 'boot' parameter of  could (should) be   
       .  Lilo will complain that this will be   
       interpreted as designation of block device (or something).   
      
   (3) No, uuid of gpt label (as whole block special, not separate   
       partitions) for 'boot' parameter doesn't work.  Interpretation of   
       lilo's docus as such is a mistake.   
      
   (4) Don't forget to set up 'root' parameter of 'image' section   
       appropriately.  Neither setup2hd nor liloconfig will ask for this.   
      
   That being said, I can't neither confirm nor deny that whatever   
   implementation or configuration of EFI on motherboard has been involved   
   in this success story.   
      
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