On 10/29/2016 01:18 AM, Uwe via arch-general wrote:
Hi
Just to clarify: do you really boot from BIOS via MBR or do you use UEFI (and are therefore in need of GPT)?
For the latter I recommend creating a 1MB Bios-Boot-partition (ef02) with gdisk, some swap after that and, dependant on your personal needs, either the rest for system or a bit for system and the rest for home
100% MBR/BIOS BOOT no UEFI used by either the Win10 OS disk I took out, or the new Arch disk I put it. I checked in windows with: bcdedit /emum to dump the bootloader config. and confirmed it was NOT boot UEFI, but just plain mbr/bios boot. The error I get from the laptop is "No Operating System Found" and a FD03 code if I recall correctly. Then I put the arch iso usb in, boot, choose the existing arch install, and I'm booted into a fine SDDM and Plasma display (chuckling that some of the bugs I filed against kde4 are still there in Plasma (e.g. 'konqueror --profile filemanagement' still launches with the left 'drives/folders' pane collapsed against the file listings on the right side.) Well, at least it is consistent :) Another curious part of the drive/boot problem, is the HP "drive test" which happily scans over the drive holding Arch, but will just never assign it a number. For thoroughness, I tried configuring drive access as IDE from AHCI -- no help. Maybe is this a hapless security feature that will prevent anyone without an arch .iso from booting my system (that alone would bewilder the government for days....) As yet another test, I reinstalled the 128G windows drive, it continues to boot fine. Any other thoughts? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.