-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 05/01/2014 06:54 PM, Alan E. Davis wrote: > I am now walking through the install step by step. Initially, it is > suggested (in the Beginner's Guide) to test whether efivars is mounted. I > ran > > mount -t efivarfs efivarfs /sys/firmware/efi/efivars > > And got this message: > > mount: mount point /sys.....efivars does not exist. > > I don't knolw whether this is good or bad news. > I tested for UEFI in Windows. The result was positive. > > This is kind of what I mean, that there are so > many shades and variations. > > > > On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 3:45 PM, Alan E. Davis <lngndvs@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> What is the "EFISTUB bug"? >> >> Alan >> >> >> On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 3:42 PM, Alan E. Davis <lngndvs@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >>> I'm staying tuned. >>> >>> Alan >>> >>> >>> On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 3:41 PM, Delcypher <delcypher@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> >>>> On 1 May 2014 23:35, Daniel Micay <danielmicay@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>>> On 01/05/14 06:28 PM, Alan E. Davis wrote: >>>>>> After already chrooting, during the Arch installation process, I saw >>>> some >>>>>> information that suggested to use a command, as follows: >>>>>> >>>>>> mount -t efivarfs efivarfs /sys/firmware/efi/efivars >>>>> >>>>> You don't need to do this, so I'm not sure where you're getting this >>>>> information. Adding an EFI entry is optional since it already installs >>>>> itself as the fallback loader too. You can install an EFI loader >>>> without >>>>> being booted via EFI. >>>> >>>> It's at https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/UEFI#Mount_efivarfs >>>> >>>>> It's certainly a lot simpler than using grub... you don't seem to want >>>>> it to work so obviously it's not going to work, since you're going out >>>>> of your way to ignore the instructions. >>>> >>>> It is unless you're one of the people effected by the EFISTUB bug like >>>> myself. So I'm currently using GRUB2. >>>> >>> >>> >> Salutations, You need to boot into UEFI mode. So when you're loading the Arch Linux ISO, make sure you select to boot into UEFI mode (usually an option in the boot menu) Regards, Mark -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iF4EAREIAAYFAlNi0ScACgkQZ/Z80n6+J/aG2QD+J3nw8NrglCi3vuS4jOAk9may o9b0rmb9YTTO7/cmXqUA/18m9G+7kx585OgR5t+Nr+NZue+IYy3qtPWn8J2t7eIk =YCQj -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
