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@REPLYADDR Henrik Carlqvist
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> Loading kernel vmlinuz... done
> Loading file initrd.gz...done
>
> After that everything is frozen. Even the power button or numlock does
> not respond.
The quick and easy thing to test would be to try if it boots with a huge
kernel without any initrd.gz. If that doesn`t help, it could be that
elilo does not cut the mustard with your specific UEFI chipset. If so,
you will need to configure grub or some other boot loader instead.
There are some recent UEFI chipsets that doesn`t work with lilo or elilo
and none of those boot loaders are no longer maintained. For that reason,
in Slackware current (which one day probably will become Slackware 15.1
or Slackware 16.0) lilo and elilo as default boot loaders has been
replaced by grub.
At
https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/how-to-install-
slackware-on-hp-laptops-envy-and-possibly-others-4175728654/ there is a
description on how to configure grub at a new install.
If you, like me, find grub a bit awkward, there are also other boot
loaders like syslinux/extlinux or limine. I have successfully used
syslinux to boot Slackware on uefi systems with ext4 file systems,
however I then used a newer version of syslinux than the one included in
Slackware. Also syslinux has not been updated for many years, I can`t say
for sure if it works with those problematic chipsets. Limine is a boot
loader that is still maintained and is available as a slackbuild at
https://slackbuilds.org/repository/15.0/system/limine/?search=limine
regards Henrik
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