-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 05/02/2014 12:17 AM, Alan E. Davis wrote: > 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. >> Salutations, The last time I checked, I had issues with booting UEFI Arch Linux iso off a usb stick. Try a cd if you can. Regards, Mark -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iF4EAREIAAYFAlNjwNYACgkQZ/Z80n6+J/ZZpwD/bwNBlO03eWtSdUxow8GPSfN+ eNocU0TymWUlD4jXw8oA/jojkbEjn3ZQC48TUASCnXex8ToZyUghiEgZECP2xVLB =tGl4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
