Is it possible to install Slackware Linux when Secure Boot is enabled? Is it possible to install it in a chroot when running another Linux distribution? In this article I will review how Slackware is structured, how its installation works and how to perform a custom installation in a chroot jail (useful for Secure Boot or to create a Docker container for example).

When I started playing with Linux, installing a dual boot system was the standard: back in the days we were talking about BIOS, the first 512 bytes of a disk (the Master Boot Record) and Bootloaders like LILO. Today EFI, GPT and Secure Boot have introduced a new layer of complexity and we need to update our knowledge. Let’s do this with this article.