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Re: Opinion on Acer Tower 18L Desktop?

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Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> writes:

> So you have a GPT-partitioned HD?  Is that something that is easily
> ealt with during Slackware installation?  Using grub?  Never used
> grub.  Is grub the default app when installing 64 bit Slackware?
> Trying to avoid a snakepit of learning all about GPT, UEFI, secure
> boot and perhaps other stuff I don't evenknow the name of.
Yes. You make an EFI service partition, usually /dev/sda1 (or similar),
which is of filesystem type FAT32. On this filesystem, you place the
bootloader and, if using elilo, the kernel and initrd themselves. Grub
can "see" into Linux filesystems so you don't need to do that with
Grub. The EFI service partition (ESP) lays on /boot/efi/ on a running
system. It looks like this (showing Grub in use on Current):
 file /boot/efi/EFI/slackware-15.0+/grubx64.efi
/boot/efi/EFI/slackware-15.0+/grubx64.efi: PE32+ executable for EFI (application), x86-64 (stripped to external PDB), 4 sections

/dev/sda1 on /boot/efi type vfat (rw,relatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,errors=remount-ro)

Though elilo is the default as of right now, it is unmaintained, and for
some people, it stopped working. This was around kernel 6.1 if I recall
from memory. Grub isn't as bad as some people make it out to be. Usually
it's just 3 commands to install it on a single boot system. It can do alot
but you only need a small fraction of its ability on a basic Linux
system.

It's human nature to stick with what we know, but UEFI is what's around
now so it's best to learn it. Years ago I felt the same way but took the
time to learn. This is what I used:

https://www.rodsbooks.com/efi-bootloaders/

The date is aways back but the information is relavent today. There's
alot of information there but you only need about 30% of it. 

> My inclination is to revert to "legacy" MBR boot.  Do newer systems
> make that impossible?
Some systems might not have it. On others it's called "CSM",
“Compatibility Support Module”. MBR is hacky and I think you'll like
UEFI if you give it a chance. Modern system, especially ones that come
with Windows, will already have the ESP created for you. You can just
use that and delete the Windows stuff off of it. The last few machine
I've bought have been setup this way. 

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    Re: Opinion on Acer Tower 18L Desktop? Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2026-06-25 02:58 -0300
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