My cd writer is apparently dead (gets to 60-80% and dies), so I'll be
contributing no useful information. Sorry
However, it seems that using an archboot[1] livecd[2] is the way to go - a
simple install should give you grub2 properly set up, and from there it's just
a matter of configuration.
[1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Archboot
[2] http://cosmos.cites.illinois.edu/pub/archlinux/iso/archboot/2012.01/
By the way, if you intend to go the dwm/xmonad route, I've created a version
of pommed (the hotkeys handler) with unnecessary
dbus/wmaker/gnome/ambient-light-sensor support torn out, along with the bugs
it had. pommed-light in AUR. The main version of pommed tends to sit at 2% CPU
usage because it's constantly polling the ambient light sensor, and it can't
tolerate dbus not being running.
Good luck.
On Sun, 15 Apr 2012, Keshav P R wrote:
On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 23:50, Arvid Warnecke <arvid@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi Scott,
On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 02:54:28PM -0400, Scott Lawrence wrote:
What I have been wondering about now is, if it will be possible to
install Arch without rEFIt and the Mac OS X at all? I read a lot in the
wiki pages, but all I found was that if I install Arch only with EFI
support I will have to install GRUB2. And on the page about GRUB2 I
read, that I will have to bless GRUB2 from OS X...
If that is necessary I might keep rEFIt and OS X as it is and only
replace the Mint installation with Arch.
It's my understanding that with linux 3.3, it's possible to get EFI
to boot straight to linux. I don't know the specifics - I mean to
give it a stab early this weekend. If I still have a working
computer afterwords, I'll let you know what happens (provided nobody
else interjects with something more useful).
Thanks, looking forward to it.
Best regards,
Arvid
Just FYI
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=136833
http://www.rodsbooks.com/efi-bootloaders/efistub.html
https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/3/16/194
rEFInd Boot Manager - better than rEFIt -
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=57632 . Related info at
http://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/linux.html .
Experimental "bless" utility for linux -
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=54847 (needs more testing)
Regards.
Keshav
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