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Internet reports that I'm 1-of-many victims, failing to run linux on new/cheap laptops. Eg. quad-Atom; connex L1470. What is syslinux's recomended method to overcome <WinTel's UEFI lockout> using a USBbootStik ? Are wifi drivers: RTL8723BS for linux available yet ? ==TIA.

I want to be able to make a USBbootStik for my laptop, as I repeatedly did for the now stolen PC. I've got a copy of the required 2009, Slackware13 partition, saved to a USBdisk. And I've located the 175-line: <make bootStik script> . Of course just "chroot"ing Slak13, won't allow <make bootStik>. But...

...unday, December 8, 2019, 07:42:43, eas lab via Syslinux wrote: > Internet reports that I'm 1-of-many victims, failing to run linux > on new/cheap laptops. Eg. quad-Atom; connex L1470. > What is syslinux's recomended method to overcome <WinTel's UEFI > lockout> using a USBbootStik ? Syslinux should work fine with UEFI (it does for me), and if for some reason you can't disable secure boot, download the Linux Foundation UEFI pre-loader (to use it, rename syslinux' bootx64.efi to loader.efi, rename Foundation's preloader.efi to bootx64.efi and place hashtool.efi in...

...07:42:43, eas lab via Syslinux wrote: > > > Internet reports that I'm 1-of-many victims, failing to run linux on > > new/cheap laptops. Eg. quad-Atom; connex L1470. What is syslinux's > > recomended method to overcome <WinTel's UEFI lockout> using a > > USBbootStik ? > > Syslinux should work fine with UEFI (it does for me), and if for some > reason you can't disable secure boot, download the Linux Foundation UEFI > pre-loader (to use it, rename syslinux' bootx64.efi to loader.efi, > rename Foundation's preloader.efi to bootx64.efi...