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| * | Fix UEFI boot when ISO was dd-ed to USB thumbdrive...Since early 2019, when you dd-ed or cp-ed a live ISO directly to a USB stick,
and you booted from this stick on a UEFI computer, you would end up in the
GRUB commandline, because $prefix would not be defined and GRUB would be
unable to find its files.
My 2019 modification fixed PXE boot but broke this specific case of UEFI boot.
And now it has finally been fixed after I had a brain fart.
|   Eric Hameleers | 2023-09-17 | 2 | -1/+3 |
| * | grub: path in grub-embedded.cfg is configurable | Eric Hameleers | 2023-09-10 | 1 | -1/+4 |
| * | Update boot-stage help with new core2ram parameter. Update README.txt | Eric Hameleers | 2023-01-22 | 1 | -0/+4 |
| * | liveslak: add Secure Boot support to all 64bit ISOs...Read the updates in the README for more background and guidance.
User notice:
As a one-time action the very first time you boot a Secure Boot enabled
liveslak ISO, you will have to enroll the liveslak certificate
(/EFI/BOOT/liveslak.der) with which the Slackware boot-up binaries
(grub and kernel) were signed into your computer's MOK (Machine Owner Key
database).
This enrollment request will show on-screen during initial boot,
just follow the prompts to 'enroll from disk'. Afterwards the computer
will reboot and from then on, your liveslak will boot without any
user intervention on your Secure Boot computer.
Note:
liveslak uses Fedora's initial boot loader (the 'shim') which
has been signed by Microsoft. In future we may get our own
signed shim for liveslak and/or Slackware, but don't hold your breath.
| Eric Hameleers | 2021-11-08 | 1 | -2/+3 |
| * | Update the documentation and grub/syslinux help texts | Eric Hameleers | 2021-10-26 | 1 | -3/+21 |
| * | Update helptexts for syslinux and grub boot screens | Eric Hameleers | 2020-12-28 | 1 | -0/+8 |
| * | Fix PXE boot. Fix pxeserver. Add support for PXE-booting UEFI-based PC's...Note that UEFI PXE-boot is not yet working, I do not know why.
| Eric Hameleers | 2019-02-15 | 4 | -10/+5 |
| * | Add support for on-disk OS configuration file...The configuration file must be in the liveslak main directory ('/liveslak'
by default) and be called 'DISTRO_os.cfg' where DISTRO is the lower-case
name of the distro ('slackware' by default).
The following variables can be defined in the configuration file,
one per line, in the format VAR=value:
BLACKLIST, INIT, KEYMAP, LIVE_HOSTNAME, LOAD, LOCALE, LUKSVOL, NOLOAD,
RUNLEVEL, TWEAKS, TZ, XKB.
Since the configuration file is sourced by the live init script, it is OK
to have comments in it that are prefixed with '#'.
| Eric Hameleers | 2018-06-15 | 1 | -0/+5 |
| * | Make the 'make-grub.sh' script compatible with grub-2.02...In particular, it seems that including the 'ahci' grub module caused failure
on boot, because the actual Live USB stick would not be detected and the
local harddisk would be detected as (ahci0).
The script has also been enhanced so that the 'grub-mkimage' commandline will
not get fed any non-existing module, which would otherwise abort the command.
| Eric Hameleers | 2017-12-27 | 1 | -8/+18 |
| * | Update the syslinux and grub help files with the new 'tweaks' option. | Eric Hameleers | 2016-05-14 | 1 | -2/+4 |
| * | README.txt: update the documentation for the new PXE server functionality. | Eric Hameleers | 2016-05-05 | 1 | -0/+4 |
| * | Update syslinux & grub help files with latest boot parameter info. | Eric Hameleers | 2016-04-24 | 1 | -0/+17 |
| * | Add support for 32-bit UEFI boot (disabled by default)....This requires functionality in grub which is currently not enabled
in Slackware's grub package.
If you want a 32-bit Live ISO that boots on UEFI computers, you need
to recompile Slackware's grub with the patch for grub.SlackBuild which
you can find in the ./patches subdirectory.
Then you need to set the variable "EFI32" to "YES" in the
'make_slackware_live.sh' script and (re-)generate your 32-bit ISO.
The resulting 32-bit Live ISO will be UEFI-bootable.
| Eric Hameleers | 2016-03-18 | 1 | -5/+14 |
| * | Documentation updates. | Eric Hameleers | 2016-03-11 | 1 | -0/+6 |
| * | New boot parameter "localhd" to initialize RAID/LVM on local harddisks. | Eric Hameleers | 2016-02-17 | 1 | -0/+2 |
| * | Tweaks and spelling fixes for the syslinux and grub2 help files. | Eric Hameleers | 2016-02-15 | 1 | -5/+10 |
| * | Update the syslinux and grub help texts. | Eric Hameleers | 2016-02-14 | 1 | -0/+7 |
| * | BIOS (syslinux) and UEFI (grub2) boot: enhance the experience....- generate the grub fonts (.pf2) ourselves instead of using the
Slackware-provided grub font file.
- expand the help text about the boot parameters.
- show the liveslak version number in the boot menu.
- remove the 'boot any OS' menu item in Grub because it never worked for me.
- add a bit of Grub help text at the bottom of the screen.
NOTES:
- I do not like the way how I had to implement the Grub2 help menu,
it is ugly. Perhaps the text artefacts and understrikes are caused by the
fact that the grub console has to paint on top of the graphical boot menu?
- In any case, the grub console (the black rectangle in the middle) has its
coordinates hard-coded in the grub2 source so it is not configurable.
- the grub fonts look better than in Beta3 but I am still not happy with them.
Research on Grub boot menu enhancements done by Didier Spaier.
| Eric Hameleers | 2016-01-10 | 3 | -394/+82 |
| * | Generate our own Grub font files, to fix the bad font rendering at UEFI boot....Slackware's shipped Grub font is 19 point in size which does not scale well.
Research and proposed patch by Didier Spaier.
| Eric Hameleers | 2016-01-01 | 2 | -3/+3 |
| * | Add a themed GRUB2 menu for UEFI boot, these are the actual files used. | Eric Hameleers | 2015-12-24 | 7 | -135/+46 |
| * | Add working UEFI support to the Live ISO. | Eric Hameleers | 2015-12-01 | 5 | -0/+581 |
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