Problems installing Lilo on 14.2 RC1 64bit

[PelleB]

I had a break from all computers, then set the system to UEFI only and found that I can boot Slackel 14.1 live but not Salix installation. The md5sum of the file on my harddisk is correct, and noone else has complained about the installation, so do I assume that there has been an error while burning the DVD?

[Edited] And I made an USB, which will not boot in UEFI mode either.

[westms]

I do not even get the device (boot) menu if I hit F12 (boot menu of the BIOS), Windows 10 starts, that is all.

For native UEFI mode: This behavior smells somehow of "Secure Boot". That would be not surprising at a pre-installed "Windows 10". You could turn off "Secure Boot" tentatively in UEFI setup.

[laprjns]

Although haven't finish testing, i can confirm PelleB problems with booting the installation media (both usb and DVD) under UEFI. I tied a DVD on both my laptop and desktop. On my laptop, the uefi firmware does create a boot menu entry for UEFI booting of the install disk, but it appeartly fails to boot the disks and just defaults to the next boot option. On the desktop, it does boot what appears to be the UEFI boot entry (the entry name starts with UEFI) but it does so in legacy mode. I don't get an option to install elilo, just lilo.
Flashing the USB media using dd results in the same behavior on my laptop as I seen in the past with Salix / Slackware / Slackle installation media. The uefi firmware either doesn't create a boot entry or if it does, then it does boot; it just falls back to the default boot option. zi haven't tried the dd'ed USB stick on my desktop yet, but my past experience says that it works sometimes.

For people who want to UEFI install off a USB stick, try copying the iso to the stick instead of dd'ing. Just create a FAT32 partition large enough to hold all the files in the iso, and flag it Boot. The mount the iso somewhere like /mnt/iso, then mount the usb stick somewhere (/mnt/tmp) , and copy the iso

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cp -r /mnt/iso/* /mnt/tmp/

This works for me. I can consistently UEFI boot the installation media and install in UEFI mode.

[PelleB]

I now have checked and double checked, secure boot is disabled on the computer where I tried to install Salix.

I formatted an USB stick with GParted, set the flag to bootable, then mounted it in Thunar and used Engrampa to extract all files to it. Yes, I could have used the command line, but I wanted to see if it worked this way and it did. It boots from the USB stick made this way without problem, the installation runs as it should, the installed system boots as it should.

Thanks to all who tried to help me!

[gapan]

PelleB, you're right and thank you very much for the report. As I posted in the announcement thread there is a problem with the 64bit iso and *some* but not all UEFI systems. laprjns also has a system affected by this and helped debug the problem. I'm currently uploading an RC2 iso that hopefully fixes this.

[gapan]

OK, 14.2RC2 is up. Links are in the announcement thread:
viewtopic.php?f=17&t=7022#p40482

Can you please download and confirm that this issue is fixed? It should now find the UEFI boot entry when booting in UEFI mode, which will then have an elilo installation option available.

[PelleB]

It boots OK, computer set to UEFI only. I did not do all the installation, to tired...

So it seems to be fixed....

[laprjns]

14.2R2 fixed it here. The installer UEFI booted successfully both from a dd'ed USB stick and a burned DVD.