[elilong]

elilong is a os bootloader. it uses a simple text conf similar to elilo. it includes elilongsetup which will copy the binary from the staging location to the efi system partition, create a elilong.conf file if one does not exist, it will add a vmlinuz entry, and a windows boot entry if it detects the windows boot loader, and add a boot entry in the uefi firmware/bios. Note: if you use secure boot you must add the elilong.efi file to the list of safe binaries in the uefi bios for it to be able to boot. At the moment you will also need to add the boot kernels to the uefi bios list as well. if elilong cannot find/read elilong.conf it will look for and try to read elilo.conf At the moment the project has only been tested in 64bit environments booting 64bit os/kernels although should boot 32bit os/kernels from a 32bit environment, if you can find a uefi bios that works in 32bit.

project origins

elilong was created because elilo was not booting on the author's pc with above 4g decoding enabled, or resize bar enabled, which has become standard for am5 based motherboards. elilong does. also elilo is no longer supported/active, so it wasn't possible to fix, and it has difficulties compiling.

requirements

elilong requires efi and libefi libraries and the gnu c compiler to compile. elilongsetup requires bash and a few linux utilities, such as lsblk, md5sum, cut, cp, efibootmgr and root priviledges to run. (in order to mount the efi system partition if needed, and write an entry to the bios.) (the project "manual ci" requires python3)

License & Usage

This project is open-source software licensed under the GNU GPL v3 with additional terms permitted under Section 7.

The "Plain English" Summary:

• Free to Use: You can compile, run, and use this code for any purpose.
• Share Alike: If you modify this code and share it with others, you must also make your modified source code available for free under the same license.
• No Liability: This software is provided "as-is" without any warranty. The author is not liable for any damages arising from its use.

Important: Rebranding Requirements

To prevent user confusion with the official version, any derivative works or modified versions of this software must:

1. Change the primary executable name.
2. Change the setup script name
3. Change the configuration filename.
4. Not be marketed as "Official" or use the original project's branding/logos.

Installation & Compilation

Generic instructions on how to build and install the project from source.

# Example build command as root once you have downloaded the source
wget https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/elilong/elilong-0.2.0.tar.gz
tar -xvf elilong-0.2.0.tar.gz
cd elilong-0.2.0/core-source
make
sudo make install
sudo /usr/sbin/elilongsetup

Slackware compilation and installaion instructions.

for slackware the process is similar but there is a package script to create a managed package. Run the slackbuild and installpkg and elilongsetup commands as root.

wget https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/elilong/elilong-0.2.0-slackbuild.tar.gz
tar -xvf elilong-0.2.0-slackbuild.tar.gz
cd elilong
wget https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/elilong/elilong-0.2.0.tar.gz
./elilong.SlackBuild

to install the created package (as root)

installpkg /tmp/elilong-0.2.0.tgz
elilongsetup