slack 15 and hp 104 g1

[CBM64]

Good morning. i have a hp elitebook 104 g1 and i would like to install
slack 15. i succeed, but then the boot does not work. I have to choose
"f9" at startup and point to the file located in the /efi/ directory ....
in this way I start the system. Is there a way to by_pass this hassle?
ultimately how do you install slack 15 on hp elitebook 104 g1 ?
Thank you

[Henrik Carlqvist]

Post by CBM64
Good morning. i have a hp elitebook 104 g1 and i would like to install
slack 15. i succeed, but then the boot does not work. I have to choose
"f9" at startup and point to the file located in the /efi/ directory ....
in this way I start the system. Is there a way to by_pass this hassle?
ultimately how do you install slack 15 on hp elitebook 104 g1 ?

There are different boot loaders to choose from and some computers also
allow different boot methods.

The default boot loader for UEFI in Slackware is elilo, however before
elilo can do its thing it needs to be loaded by the efi boot manager in
the BIOS. This can be done manually as you have done or configured to be
done automagically with the efibootmgr program.

Another option, if supported by the computer is to disable UEFI boot and
switch to goot old legacy boot. With legacy boot lilo should be
configured instead of elilo.

regards Henrik

[Rich]

Post by CBM64
Good morning. i have a hp elitebook 104 g1 and i would like to install
slack 15. i succeed, but then the boot does not work. I have to choose
"f9" at startup and point to the file located in the /efi/ directory ....
in this way I start the system. Is there a way to by_pass this hassle?
ultimately how do you install slack 15 on hp elitebook 104 g1 ?

The presence of an /efi directory implies a UEFI system. Did you
install elilo?

I.e., did you follow the directions in the README_UEFI.TXT on the
Slackware 15 install media?

https://mirror.cs.princeton.edu/pub/mirrors/slackware/slackware64-15.0/README_UEFI.TXT

[maus]

Post by CBM64
Good morning. i have a hp elitebook 104 g1 and i would like to install
slack 15. i succeed, but then the boot does not work. I have to choose
"f9" at startup and point to the file located in the /efi/ directory ....
in this way I start the system. Is there a way to by_pass this hassle?
ultimately how do you install slack 15 on hp elitebook 104 g1 ?
Thank you

trying to install slack this evening, mounting the disk that the
slackware64 is on resulted in "Out of memory"

[Lars van Maanen]

Post by maus

Post by CBM64
Good morning. i have a hp elitebook 104 g1 and i would like to install
slack 15. i succeed, but then the boot does not work. I have to choose
"f9" at startup and point to the file located in the /efi/ directory ....
in this way I start the system. Is there a way to by_pass this hassle?
ultimately how do you install slack 15 on hp elitebook 104 g1 ?
Thank you

trying to install slack this evening, mounting the disk that the
slackware64 is on resulted in "Out of memory"

Regarding CBM64's problem, I might have a solution, or at least a
workaround:

First, you should try to manually create the boot entry using
'efibootmgr'. If this fails (I had this habitually happen to me on
an HP Elitebook 2560p), then you should rename the bootloader efi
file to "bootx64.efi" and place it in a directory named "BOOT" (I
am not sure if the capitalization matters) on the root of the EFI
partition. This is a fallback option that should always work (it
does for me), even when the UEFI system's NVRAM is unwritable.

Regarding maus's problem, I don't have a clue.