Hi, i also would say systemd-boot should be used with uefi: 1. make sure you have bootable image with *UEFI* ArchLinux Image and the *EFI partition* must be available ( https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Unified_Extensible_Firmware_Interface#Requirements_for_UEFI_variable_support ) 2. as mentioned in the wiki you need to have the latestHP firmware ( https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/HP_EliteBook_840_G1) 3. install systemd-boot ( https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/systemd-boot#EFI_boot) 4. you need to manually add a new EFI Boot entry in your BIOS pointing to the boot loader file (from Step 3) ( https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/HP_EliteBook_840_G1) best regards 2017-12-21 9:31 GMT+01:00 Marcel Hoppe via arch-general < arch-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > Have you tried arch with systemd-boot instead of grub2? (I always use > systemd-boot since a while😉) > > Greets > Marcel > > Gesendet von meinem Smartphone > > Am 21.12.2017 09:28 schrieb <news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > > > Le 2017-12-20 15:45, David Rosenstrauch a écrit : > > > >> On 2017-12-20 3:00 am, David C. Rankin wrote: > >> > >>> I have struggled with this issue and Arch for a year. The problem is > >>> grub2 on > >>> Arch fails to write anything to bytes 0x04 - 0x63 of the mbr, while > other > >>> distros don't seem to have that problem. > >>> > >> > >> > >> More of a workaround than a solution, but I stopped using grub > >> altogether once they upgraded to grub2. (The complexity of the grub2 > >> config file as compared to the simplicity of the grub-legacy menu.lst > >> file is what eventually turned me away.) I've started using syslinux > >> in recent years, and have been quite happy with it. > >> > >> HTH, > >> > >> DR > >> > > > > Hello everyone, > > > > I have good news ... sort of. After a full reset (OS+BIOS) here is the > > result : > > [1] Archlinux : not able to boot. > > [2] Obarun : not able to boot. Yet this distro uses syslinux, not grub... > > [3] OpenSuze : not able to boot. David : maybe a difference between Leap > > 42.2 and 42.3 ? > > [4] Debian : not able to boot. I tried Debian and Subgraph. > > [5] Ubuntu : booting and functionnal (as functionnal as Ubuntu can be). > > > > I'll install Ubuntu and see what I can install from there. Archlinux with > > syslinux I guess. Note : all these USB stick were made with dd. Even > Ubuntu > > was unable to boot with an Easy2Boot stick with imgPTN image and so one. > > > > Tom > > >
