Add other prompts to elilo.

[jo...@wexfordpress.com]

Slack 14.2
Elilo prompts for Linux and I get to my primary partition. But I need to be able to start another partition with another version of Linux.

Lilo has lilio.conf where one can specify various os/partition combinations.
Whatr do I edit for elilo?

John Culleton

[David Robley]

Don't use elilo myself but my install of 14.2 has /usr/doc/elilo-3.16 which
seems to have some useful documentation.


Cheers
--
David Robley

It's Ensign Flintstone, Jim... He's Fred!
Today is Pungenday, the 6th day of The Aftermath in the YOLD 3182.

[King Beowulf]

once you install slackware and run eliloconfig, etc., and after 1st time
boot, look in "/boot/efi/EFI/Slackware/"

This is the directory on /dev/sda1 (fat32) that the UEFI bootloader looks
for to load the boot kernel - during install this was registered in your
EFI BIOS with efibootmgr. You simply need to edit elilo.conf to add /
modify entries. In this example, I have 3 Slackware kernels to boot the
same partition, but each could be a different partition and distro.

For example:

$ cat /boot/efi/EFI/Slackware/elilo.conf
prompt
#chooser=textmenu
chooser=simple
delay=1
timeout=50
default=current
message=message.txt
#
image=vmlinuz-generic
label=current
initrd=initrd.gz
read-only
append="root=/dev/sda2 vga=normal ro"
image=vmlinuz-huge
label=safemode
read-only
append="root=/dev/sda2 vga=normal ro"
image=vmlinuz-custom
label=custom
initrd=initrd.gz
read-only
append="root=/dev/sda2 vga=normal ro intel_iommu=on"

See also

https://docs.slackware.com/
howtos:slackware_admin:linux_kernel_options_for_uefi_and_elilo

http://www.rodsbooks.com/efi-bootloaders/elilo.html