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2023-09-17Fix UEFI boot when ISO was dd-ed to USB thumbdrive Eric Hameleers2-1/+3
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.
2023-09-10grub: path in grub-embedded.cfg is configurable Eric Hameleers1-1/+4
2023-01-22Update boot-stage help with new core2ram parameter. Update README.txt Eric Hameleers1-0/+4
2021-11-08liveslak: add Secure Boot support to all 64bit ISOs Eric Hameleers1-2/+3
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.
2021-10-26Update the documentation and grub/syslinux help texts Eric Hameleers1-3/+21
2020-12-28Update helptexts for syslinux and grub boot screens Eric Hameleers1-0/+8
2019-02-15Fix PXE boot. Fix pxeserver. Add support for PXE-booting UEFI-based PC's Eric Hameleers4-10/+5
Note that UEFI PXE-boot is not yet working, I do not know why.
2018-06-15Add support for on-disk OS configuration file Eric Hameleers1-0/+5
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 '#'.
2017-12-27Make the 'make-grub.sh' script compatible with grub-2.02 Eric Hameleers1-8/+18
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.
2016-05-14Update the syslinux and grub help files with the new 'tweaks' option. Eric Hameleers1-2/+4
2016-05-05README.txt: update the documentation for the new PXE server functionality. Eric Hameleers1-0/+4
2016-04-24Update syslinux & grub help files with latest boot parameter info. Eric Hameleers1-0/+17
2016-03-18Add support for 32-bit UEFI boot (disabled by default). Eric Hameleers1-5/+14
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.
2016-03-11Documentation updates. Eric Hameleers1-0/+6
2016-02-17New boot parameter "localhd" to initialize RAID/LVM on local harddisks. Eric Hameleers1-0/+2
2016-02-15Tweaks and spelling fixes for the syslinux and grub2 help files. Eric Hameleers1-5/+10
2016-02-14Update the syslinux and grub help texts. Eric Hameleers1-0/+7
2016-01-10BIOS (syslinux) and UEFI (grub2) boot: enhance the experience. Eric Hameleers3-394/+82
- 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.
2016-01-01Generate our own Grub font files, to fix the bad font rendering at UEFI boot. Eric Hameleers2-3/+3
Slackware's shipped Grub font is 19 point in size which does not scale well. Research and proposed patch by Didier Spaier.
2015-12-24Add a themed GRUB2 menu for UEFI boot, these are the actual files used. Eric Hameleers7-135/+46
2015-12-01Add working UEFI support to the Live ISO. Eric Hameleers5-0/+581