I see another level of complexity here, in a statement on a page about Gummiboot on the wiki: * Warning: *Gummiboot simply provides a boot menu for EFISTUB kernels. In case you have issues booting EFISTUB kernels like in FS#33745<https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/33745>, you should use a boot loader which does not use EFISTUB, like GRUB<https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GRUB>, Syslinux <https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Syslinux> or ELILO<https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Bootloaders#ELILO> . Would grub work, using this, or a similar, approach? On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 3:15 PM, Alan E. Davis <lngndvs@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Ubuntu's kernel is on the / partition. Would I move it to the ESP > partition, in that case? > > And I will mount that partition on /mnt/boot ? > > I have never used gummiboot. Since the Arch system is already to go, but > not yet with a boot management setup, I should manually move that kernel to > the ESP partition as well? > > Alan Davis > > > On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 3:06 PM, Daniel Micay <danielmicay@xxxxxxxxx>wrote: > >> On 01/05/14 06:02 PM, Alan E. Davis wrote: >> > This looks interesting, and I am tempted to walk into the deep water. >> It >> > raises some questions. >> > >> > Will gummiboot or refind also find the Ubuntu partition? >> >> You should use the ESP (EFI system partition) to store all of the >> kernels. The loader (gummiboot) will find the Windows loader along with >> any kernels on that partition. You really aren't going to want separate >> boot partitions. >> >> > The original partition structure of the machine there were four or five >> > partitions, and another one popped up in the higher end of the disk. I >> > stumbled into the install, with the Ubuntu installer, and ended up with >> > four linux partitions in addition to the Windoze partitions. At some >> point >> > I used gparted to resize, and this might have been the step that botched >> > the structure. But in any event, I have three Linux partitions of 50G >> > each, and a swap partition. Ubuntu is sitting in one of those >> partitions. >> > >> > I have no idea what is an EFI partition. I have seen instructions, >> > presumably for those who are wiping the Windows and starting from >> scratch, >> > to make an EFI partition. >> > >> > I finally realized why there are so many partitions, and learned to use >> > gdisk when walking through the Archlinux install. >> > >> > Here is a some information from the gdisk listing: >> > >> > Nbr Size Code Name >> > -----+------------+------+------------------------- >> > 1 1000.0 MiB 2700 >> > 2 260.0 MiB EF00 EFI system partition >> > 3 128.0 MiB 0C01 Microsoft reserved part >> > 4 49.6 GiB 0700 Basic data partition >> > 5 9.7 GiB 2700 Lenovo (?recovery?) >> > 6 10.0 GiB 8200 Linux SWAP >> > 7 49.4 GiB 8300 Archlinux / >> > 8 58.8 GiB 8300 /home >> > 9 1024.0 KiB EF02 "bios_grub" (Ubuntu?) >> > 10 59.8 GiB 8300 UBUNTU / >> >> It's the one marked EFI system partition (ESP). >> >> >
