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| howtos:slackware_admin:set_up_syslinux_as_boot_loader_on_uefi_based_hardware [2016/08/17 10:31 (UTC)] – typo tonberry | howtos:slackware_admin:set_up_syslinux_as_boot_loader_on_uefi_based_hardware [2016/08/17 13:42 (UTC)] – markup tonberry |
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| * ''INITRD initrd.gz-4.4.14'' is an initrd image that is mounted as temporary / before the final / is mounted. Typically, an initrd is needed if kernel has to load some additional modules to access the root device, or has to perform some actions to make it accessible (think of RAID, LUKS, LVM). If you do not need initrd, simply delete this line. | * ''INITRD initrd.gz-4.4.14'' is an initrd image that is mounted as temporary / before the final / is mounted. Typically, an initrd is needed if kernel has to load some additional modules to access the root device, or has to perform some actions to make it accessible (think of RAID, LUKS, LVM). If you do not need initrd, simply delete this line. |
| * The second menu entry is largely the same, except that there is no '4' in ''APPEND /dev/vgroot/V_ROOT''. Simply put, this is non-graphical safe mode. If X window system fails to start for whatever reason, you may end up with not only black screen, but also blocked keyboard and mouse and therefore unable to fix the cause. So it is a good idea to have this option prepared beforehand (another method to use otherwise unusable machine with broken X is to SSH-in, though it is a less reliable method). | * The second menu entry is largely the same, except that there is no '4' in ''APPEND /dev/vgroot/V_ROOT''. Simply put, this is non-graphical safe mode. If X window system fails to start for whatever reason, you may end up with not only black screen, but also blocked keyboard and mouse and therefore unable to fix the cause. So it is a good idea to have this option prepared beforehand (another method to use otherwise unusable machine with broken X is to SSH-in, though it is a less reliable method). |
| <file /boot/efi/EFI/SYSLINUX/syslinux.cfg> | <file - /boot/efi/EFI/SYSLINUX/syslinux.cfg> |
| UI menu.c32 | UI menu.c32 |
| PROMPT 0 | PROMPT 0 |
