u/tarquinfintin

I could see tumbleweed becoming my daily driver (Mint has been for the past 20 years or so). Liked the installer, although I was a little uncertain which drive tumbleweed was going to install to). Most distros give you some type of final warning that everything on drive sdx will be erased. I like the secure boot compatibility out of the box and the automatic installation of proprietary nvidia drivers. First rolling release linux I've ever installed. I'm booting into tumbleweed through my Mint grub menu. Interesting that Mint's OS prober did not detect tumbleweed; I created a 40_custom file that works fine, however. Looking forward to learning more about openSUSE.

I've been experimenting with slackware for the past several weeks, and I have been unable to get it to boot directly with grub and with secure boot enable. However, I've found something that, for me, is just as good.

Linux Mint (which has been my daily driver) is installed on my system; Mint's OS prober was able to find the slackware disk and boot into slackware. If I sign the slackware efi binaries and kernels with a key pair that I've generated and imported into the motherboard, I can boot into slackware (huge or generic) through the Mint menu with secure boot enabled.

Its a quick and relatively simple process. Anybody else do this?

I'm having trouble getting slackware to boot directly from setup. Slackware boots fine from the grub menu of my Linux Mint installation (on another drive). When I go into settings, I don't see the slackware drive (sdb) and it doesn't show in my F11 boot menu. The slackware drive is GTP and has an EFI System Type on sdb1 mounted at /boot/efi. The Boot and ESP flags are set. During installation I skipped Lilo and Elilo and installed and configured grub and then generated the grub.cfg file. Using efibootmgr, I have tried creating a new entry:

efibootmgr -c -d /dev/sdb -p 1 -L "Slackware" -l '\boot\efi\EFI\slackware\grubx64.efi'

Immediately after I do this, efibootmgr shows the entry, but it is gone by the next boot and the problem persists. Anyone have an idea how I can get Slackware to boot directly with grub? PS I wanted to use grub instead of elilo because I know I can get grub to work with secure boot.

Thanks in advance,

Don

I wanted to install slackware, mainly as a learning experience. Took me a few times to get the installer to work; I eventually had to do the partitioning with gparted from my Mint installation. For the past week I've been working to make slackware work with secure boot. . . and finally got it to work (again, doing the key generation and signing from my Mint distribution). Somewhat of a project, but overall fun and good learning experience. Now its time to start exploring what slackware can do.