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just released 0.2.0 which adds multiarch support to the makefile. to be clear, that is adding the ability to build elilong for different architectures and bit-ness than just x86_64. do bear in mind that the architecture and bitness must be the same as what the uefi bios is using. This is a uefi "limitation". Also work was done on the manual integration script fixing some issues with layout and permissions of both the project slackbuild, and the one for slackbuilds.org see the project webpage https://elilong.sourceforge.io/ which includes the changelog for details.

i discovered that the uefi watchdog timer is set to 5mins by default, which means that if you press a key when the menu is shown to stop the elilong timer, the system will reboot if you haven't made a choice in time. v0.1.9 handles this by turning off the timer once the menu is shown, then turning it back on after you made a choice and elilong is about to run the boot option you chose. For this version there is now a secure boot indicator near the top right corner of the menu border.

Hi all, I've added a more polished menu for elilong which can be navigated with up and down arrow keys or numeric numbers for the index, then pressing enter to boot the selected entry. I had some issues with the menu scrolling up with timeout text which I fixed by scrolling the screen up sufficiently (if a message file was displayed) before displaying the menu on screen. Just for fun I added menu background colour, similar to lilo, but blue instead of red (unless you have a monochrome monitor). I've done a little secureboot testing as well, and at the moment, if you register elilong and kernels you want to boot in the uefi bios, you can boot using elilong. I'll see if I can get round needing to register the kernels, which will make the system more user friendly if you are stuck using secureboot.