In Pursuit of "Slack" - Slackware UEFI Plus Grub Install

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I'm not a fan of Lilo, the default Slackware bootloader, so this video illustrates how grub can be installed during the installation on a UEFI system

I use the Slackware current iso but the process is essentially the same for stable - 14.2

The key thing here is to reject the options to install Lilo or ELilo and drop back to a root prompt after installation has finished but before rebooting. Then issue the following commands:

mount chroot /mnt /bin/bash source /etc/profile grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot/efi --bootloader-id=grub grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

For a non-UEFI system the grub install command is: grub-install --target=x86_64-efi /dev/sda #or whatever your drive is called

For virtual box to boot on UEFI you also need to copy grub to a new directory:

mkdir -p /boot/efi/EFI/boot # -p option creates any intermediate directories cp /boot/efi/EFI/grub/grubx64.efi /boot/efi/EFI/boot/bootx64.efi

That's it. Links to useful pages below: #Slackware http://www.slackware.com/getslack/ #Slackbuilds https://slackbuilds.org/ #Multilib how to https://docs.slackware.com/slackware:multilib #Ponce Repo for Current https://github.com/Ponce/slackbuilds Slackpkg+ http://slakfinder.org/slackpkg+.html #SBOtools https://pink-mist.github.io/sbotools/ #SBOpkg https://sbopkg.org/

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