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On 2023-09-21 at 03:08 ADT, 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 and none of those boot loaders are no longer maintained.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.
Also consider refind, which is what I have been using on UEFI computers
since the first time I got one.
There is a bit of a learning curve to it, but that is probably also the
case for every other boot loader you might consider.
Jim
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