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@markelee.com> wrote:
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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_manage...
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