I am slaying my 32 bit installation.

I had to repartion for EFI.

I now have 14.2 64 bit up and running.

I would like to use the generic kernel. I have created the initrd and I would like to install it. It appears the system uses ELILO but the documentation is scarce.

It seems that you edit /boot/efi/EFI/Slackware/elilo.conf

but then?

there does not seem to be an elilo command.

Any thoughts.

After some time with the release notes....

There is no elilo command, but the solution is simple.

1) Make sure you have an alternate way to boot the machine, either a usb drive or the ability to use the installation disk for rescue when things go wrong.

2) Make your intird.gz using the method outlined in the /boot/README.initrd

3) Make sure your EFI partition is mounted under /boot/efi using the mount command.

4) Copy vmlinuz-generic-4.4.14.gz to the /boot/efi/EFI/Slackware directory.

5) Rename you initrd.gz created in step 2), I used geninitrd.gz for 'generic' initial ram disk.

6) Move or copy the geninitrd.gz the /boot/efi/EFI/Slackware directory

7) Edit the elilo.conf file locate in the /boot/efi/EFI/Slackware diectory. The options are very much like lilo.conf options.

My elilo.conf file is:

chooser=simple
delay=1
timeout=1
default=generic
#
image=vmlinuz
label=vmlinuz
initrd=initrd.gz
read-only
append="root=/dev/sda3 vga=normal ro"
image=vmlinuz-generic-4.4.14
label=generic
initrd=geninitrd.gz
read-only
append="root=/dev/sda3 vga=normal resume=/dev/sda2 ro"


8) Reboot.

Enjoy!

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