I am boot the arch May 1 2014 iso off of a usb flash drive. On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 6:23 PM, Doug Newgard <scimmia@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. >
