Following up on installing Archlinux Preface to the Appendix of this thread, with thanks and deference to those who have helped so far: I am definitely not up to speed on the nuts and bolts of GNU/Linux, I am a user, needing to get this tool working. That being said, I have Archlinux working now, but not truly dual bootable, in the usual sense. In particular, the BIOS settings are several, and their meaning unclear to me. I did change the secure boot setting, back to Off. This led to a cacade of other changes, so I am not even certan what to report. Most of the steps that were so kindly outlined and restated by my friends on this list didn't mean much to me, so I blundered through it all. Installed Archlinux, with the UEFI / EFI partition mounted on /mnt/boot/efi. Many other files were visible there. I didn't make sense of the instllation of gummiboot, because I was not using a separate /boot partition, I think, so the instllation of gummiboot failed. I used GRUB. Installed some ancillary files, mentioned as optional. I did some other things as well. When I rebooted, ARchlinux was not listed in the GRUB menu. I changed the BIOS settings, dealing with secure boot and UEFI vs BIOS (which I set to both, with EUFI prioritized). Rebooted. Now I only see Archlinux. What I hope is that thi will continue to work, as is. Later on, when I feel brave, I will go through the BIOS settings again, and see of the other systems, inlcuding Windows 8, come up. For now,. this is all I need. Thank you, Alan Davis p On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 2:35 PM, Mark Lee <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA256 > > > On 05/07/2014 05:16 PM, Alan E. Davis wrote: > > I would like to sign off with a little information about how this has > > gone. > > > > I had used the "F12" boot options method once. Subsequently, the > Windows > > Boot Loader appeared on the GRUB menu. I have since then installed > Fedora > > 20, and it went very well. > > > > I now see that if once specifies "UEFI" as the boot method in the > BIOS, and > > not Legacy or Both, these linux distros look for the EFI partition (or > > whatever that is called), and if one specifies it to be mounted wihtout > > formating in the parititioning scheme, all goes well. > > > > Thank everyone for the help. Now the machine boots right into GRUB. > > > > Alan Davis > To Alan, > > That's excellent. But, the point of UEFI is not to use any boot managers > like GRUB. A proper UEFI install should be able to boot directly off the > firmware. On a very high level, UEFI internalizes boot loaders like GRUB > so instead of chainloading with a boot loader, one boots directly into a > UEFI program (windows, linux, mac os, etc...) I am glad to hear that > your machine setup is working though. > > Might I add, if you are truly booting into UEFI mode with Linux (could > be Ubuntu or Arch), you could probably apply the procedures in the Arch > Wiki to boot Arch Linux without a boot loader > < > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/EFISTUB#Directly.2C_without_boot_manager > > > > Regards, > Mark > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ > > iF4EAREIAAYFAlNqpxgACgkQZ/Z80n6+J/bisQD/YRhelmYEwJP4PMLSkRqoi3Ks > FYFGPDQXzRy4V+3yXDgA/1TxiqAz7SsOl/NpV7jXumpKLPoQ7tvjPmxbQgU5RmTQ > =Vhpg > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > >
