On 2014-05-01 20:18, Mark Lee wrote:
Salutations,
If you set up your efistub correctly, you will be able to boot Arch or
Windows using the Uefi boot manager, same system as how you get the
option to boot off a USB stick. UEFI removes the needs for boot
managers.
Regards,
Man k
-----Original Message-----
From: "Alan E. Davis" <lngndvs@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: 5/1/2014 9:09 PM
To: "General Discussion about Arch Linux" <arch-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [arch-general] Installing Archlinux alongside Ubuntu on
aWindows8 UEFI laptop
I have never seen an option to boot the Arch iso using eufi boot.
I may not have said that I want to dual boot. I do need to do so. If
I
boot directly back into Arch, will there be an option do dual boot?
(Actually triple boot for the time being.)
Alan Davis
On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 5:25 PM, Mark Lee <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Salutations,
Okay. Try starting ove again. Boot into the arch iso using uefi boot
(preferably but not necessary). Then set up your partitions (root,
home).
For boot, mount the windows EFI system partition as /boot. Then
install the
system. You won't need to install grub or gummiboot since you can boot
the
efistub directly. I would create a folder in /boot named "arch". I
would
then copy the *.img from /boot to /boot/arch and rename the
vmlinuz-Linux
to vmlinuz-linux.efi. If you booted into uefi mode from the Arch iso,
you
should be able to run efibootmgr. Run efibootmgr to see what entries
you
have (you should at least have the windows entry). Then type something
like
this : efibootmgr -d <efi disk id ( probably /dev/sda) -p <parition #
(probably 1> -L "Arch Linux UEFI" -l /arch/vmlinux-Linux.efi -u
"root=<location of root> initramfs=/arch/initramfs.img rw quiet" -w.
You
should be able to reboot if all went well and you will boot into Arch
Linux.
Regards,
Mark
-----Original Message-----
From: "Alan E. Davis" <lngndvs@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: 5/1/2014 8:07 PM
To: "General Discussion about Arch Linux" <arch-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [arch-general] Installing Archlinux alongside Ubuntu on a
Windows8 UEFI laptop
I don't understand what is the entry, or fallback entry, or "run the
entry." I'm sorry.
I'm going to try again later. In fact, I may take the undesireable
step of
installing from Manjaro or whatever is the shortcut way to install
Arch
Linux these days.
On the one hand, I don't care to learn about what's Micro$oft's latest
tortuous trick it has played on the users; and on the other hand, I do
value to learn the nuts and bolts of GNU/Linux.
Thank you very much. I am willing to give it one more try. I might
even
try to install grub in a partition, as apparently is what Ubuntu has
done.
Thank you again,
Alan Davis
On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 4:59 PM, Daniel Micay <danielmicay@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> On 01/05/14 07:40 PM, Alan E. Davis wrote:
> > I took a chance, and nothing happened. I installed gummiboot on
/boot,
> > where the kernel was. But I didn't move the ubuntu kernel over.
> >
> > In the end, Windows still booted, and I was able to get back to a boot
> menu
> > from there, and boot ubuntu. Not Arch. Yet.
> >
> > Thank you for now.
> >
> > Alan
>
> You need to explicitly run the entry (if you had the EFI stuff mounted)
> or the fallback entry (if you didn't).
>
>
Would you stop breaking the thread? This is the third time you've broken
this thread alone.
Not to mention top posting, but I'm not sure if there's a policy on that
here.
