Config file not found about limine HOT 10 CLOSED

You need to make and provide your config file with stuff in it.
Depending on what its contents are, you want it wherever your linux images are.
It must be on a fat32 partition, and somewhere other than sda1.
I assume your possibly dualbooting with windows.
Edit: its probably loooking for it in the folder named limine
Edit 2: I see your response. I forgot i had done cases in wich it was same partition. Ill just let mint take it from here, they know better than me

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@kovmir Hello,

How does Limine 7.4.0 say that it cannot find the config? Asking because since 7.4.0 specifically, Limine won't say anything in particular if there is no config/config has no entries, and it will instead just present an empty main menu, at least in theory.

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How does Limine 7.4.0 say that it cannot find the config? Asking because since 7.4.0 specifically

Limine 7.3 displays a message saying the config has not been found occupying the entire screen width. Limine 7.4 presents an empty menu just like you have described.

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How does Limine 7.4.0 say that it cannot find the config? Asking because since 7.4.0 specifically

Limine 7.3 displays a message saying the config has not been found occupying the entire screen width. Limine 7.4 presents an empty menu just like you have described.

Has this worked on a previous Limine release? If so, which?

Also please triple check that you indeed do have that limine.cfg file in the right partition.

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You need to make and provide your config file with stuff in it.

I have provided the config file for Limine. Do you mean I should post the contents of it here? OK:

TIMEOUT=5

:Slackware
        PROTOCOL=linux
        KERNEL_PATH=boot:///EFI/Slackware/vmlinuz-generic
        MODULE_PATH=boot:///EFI/Slackware/initrd.gz
        CMDLINE=root=/dev/sda2 vga=normal ro

Depending on what its contents are, you want it wherever your linux images are.

There is no such thing in the documentation.

It must be on a fat32 partition,

It is.

and somewhere other than sda1.

No such thing in the documentation.

I assume your possibly dualbooting with windows.

No, I do not. What made you assume that?

Edit: its probably loooking for it in the folder named limine

At first, it is looking for the config file at the root of the partition.

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Has this worked on a previous Limine release? If so, which?

No it has never worked, I tried Limine version 4 before you switched over to semantic versioning. I did not bother reporting at the time.

Also please triple check that you indeed do have that limine.cfg file in the right partition.

My first message shows the config file is indeed at root of the EFI partition, and sda is my only drive. You can also look at the entire partition:

$ tree /boot/efi
/boot/efi
├── EFI
│   ├── BOOT
│   │   ├── BOOTX64.EFI
│   │   └── limine.cfg
│   └── Slackware
│       ├── elilo.conf
│       ├── elilo.efi
│       ├── initrd.gz
│       ├── vmlinuz-generic
│       └── vmlinuz-huge
├── limine
│   ├── limine.cfg
│   └── liminex64.efi
└── limine.cfg

4 directories, 10 files

As you can see, I tried putting limine.cfg in several places.

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Is there a chance you could image /dev/sda1 as is and send it over? That would be very useful.

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Is there a chance you could image /dev/sda1 as is and send it over? That would be very useful.

Here (expires in 20 days).

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Is there a chance you could image /dev/sda1 as is and send it over? That would be very useful.

Here (expires in 20 days).

Alright, so...
it seems like your FAT filesystem was generated by very ancient tools; it lacks a proper filesystem type field in its BPB (aka superblock) which Limine needs in order to identify the filesystem.

No worries, this can be fixed by running:

echo "FAT     " | dd conv=notrunc bs=1 count=8 of=/dev/sda1 seek=82

(as root, and assuming /dev/sda1 is still the partition in question)

PS: I see that you have comments in the config in the form of

SOME=string # comment

This is not a valid comment. Comments can only start at the beginning of a line until the end of the line.

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It works, thank you.

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