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====== Set up Grub as boot loader on UEFI hardware ======
Installation and running of Slac... s that use Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) rather than traditional BIOS poses problems. It ... impossible to boot the official install media via UEFI directly and the installation discs do not include a UEFI bootloader.
Installation of Slackware on UEFI sy
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====== Linux kernel options for UEFI and ELILO ======
The purpose of this article is t... r about necessary kernel options for booting from UEFI, and some info about how ELILO and perhaps other ... derstand online.
==== Required kernel options for UEFI support ====
The following options are required for booting a kernel from UEFI. These are already set in the stock Slackware ker
Boot0004* Internal Hard Disk
Boot9999* USB Drive (UEFI)</code>
====== Change EFI boot order ======
<... Boot0004* Internal Hard Disk
Boot9999* USB Drive (UEFI)</code>
====== Remove old EFI menu items =====... -->
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====== Installing Slackware on UEFI-based hardware ======
Slackware setup supports UEFI installs. To get Slackware to boot on UEFI machines, bypass the LILO installation and select ELILO ins... install.
====== Installing Older Slackware on UEFI-based hardware ======
Some modern computers have
ia.org/wiki/Unified_Extensible_Firmware_Interface|UEFI]] spec but can be used without using UEFI.
In addition to the limitations of the MBR, there are also l
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====== UEFI dual or more boot using rEFInd ======
Machines are now coming in with the UEFI standard. It presents some advantages like the ab... e-OS environments as drivers can be loaded in the UEFI firmware. But Linux users found that, suddenly, i... we will have a little summary of multi-booting on UEFI machines, going over the steps to make sure insta
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====== Set up SYSLINUX as boot loader on UEFI based hardware ======
SYSLINUX is a boot loader t... 4, Btrfs, XFS, UFS/FFS and NTFS or from network.
UEFI support seems to have been added in version 6 of ... n files resemble those of LILO/ELILO.
===== Why UEFI =====
It is not as though there is some choice; machines nowadays //are// UEFI. One can, however, choose to set UEFI to so calle
he new GPT partition scheme and want to boot from UEFI.
>> IO Schedulers --->
>>> Deadline I/O scheduler... e service support
Enable if you want to boot from UEFI.
>>> EFI stub support
Enable if you want to boot from UEFI.
>> Enable -fstack-protector buffer overflow dete... this if you have frequency scaling enabled in the UEFI/BIOS (Speedstep or similar).
>>>> 'performance' g