On 01/05/14 05:07 PM, Alan E. Davis wrote: > This is insanity... The first time I have encountered the much maligned > Micro$oft UEFI / Secure Boot adventure. On my new Thinkpad Yoga, with a > Wacom active digitizer and pen. > > Ubuntu was a walk in the park. I installed Ubuntu naively, alongside the > new Windows 8.1 laptop. It took maybe an hour to break my resolve to take > my time. It was a disconcerting experience. I now have a system that > boots Ubuntu 2014.04, through a convoluted process of signing into Windoze, > then backing out through advanced settings to boot from a Menu. If I > were trying to lock in my customer base, I couldn't have designed it any > better, or made it any more uncomfortable, myself. Ubuntu picks up the > Wacom pen, and almost everything else. But it's not Archlinux. > > I am a bit fearful, but decided that Archlinux, which I am using on two > other machines, would potentially be the better choice. > > I have two more partitions, one of a /home and another for an Arch /boot, > so I went ahead and walked through the most of the install, except for > installing the boot manager. > > I am stuck now. I don't want to compromise what I have already gained. > Now I need to learn how to set up the system to boot any of the three OSs. > > I am puzzled by the variety of approaches I have seen; hence, I am reaching > out here on the mailing list. > > I saw advice to use GRUB but install it in the boot PARTITION. Not sure > how to do this, and not sure whether it will work. > > > Does this make sense to anyone? > > Alan > You shouldn't have a separate boot partition. Install gummiboot or refind to the existing FAT32 ESP partition and mount that as your /boot. It's *easier* than dealing with MBR/BIOS because you can do it entirely via EFI/Boot/BOOTX64 rather than messing with EFI entries.
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