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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
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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
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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
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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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===== Introduction =====
If you use UEFI and/or GPT, then don't use this. If you still want to use it, you can probably set your UEFI to BIOS legacy mode and deactivate GPT. This is m... . But the process should be somewhat similar with UEFI/GPT.
**Summary:**
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cd /etc/grub.d/
chmod -x 20_linux_xen 30_os_prober 30_uefi_firmware 41_custom
nano /etc/grub.d/40_custom
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On Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) based hardware, a system can operate in Secure B... ulate the Secure Boot settings with your system's UEFI firmware. That way, if you make a mistake, you ca... mware. Only one Platform Key can be stored by the UEFI firmware. The public key is stored in the ''PK'' ... . Multiple Key Exchange Keys can be stored by the UEFI firmware. The public keys are stored in the ''KEK
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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
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
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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SSD that supports SMART
- SMART enabled in the UEFI/BIOS
- Software to interface with SMART
Some c... not a HDD/SSD. If it is not enabled, go into your UEFI/BIOS settings and enable it. Also note ''SMART ov
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
