On 3 May 2014 05:53, Alan E. Davis <lngndvs@gmail.com> wrote:
I am way past confused about these issues.
I have installed Archlinux on a partition, with a home partition. I just cannot boot into it. I was able to boot into the USB flash drive. I never saw any messages about UEFI or legacy.
The USB image supports legacy and UEFI boot. I'm not 100% sure if this is a reliable method but when I boot up via legacy the /sys/firmware/efi folder does not exist but when I boot via UEFI the folder does exist. There is probably a way on your machine to disable legacy boot and also select to boot from USB when legacy boot is disabled.
I had already installed Ubuntu 2014.04, botched the partitioning, but it is possible to boot into it by
Given that you have already installed Ubuntu successfully you probably have a working boot manager from that install. So why not just use that to boot into Arch Linux? I think Ubuntu uses GRUB2 so you can have Ubuntu regenerate the menu entries and hopefully it would detect Arch Linux on its own. If not you'll have to look up how to add the menu entries manually.
It took me years to get used to GRUB2 having a complicated web of editable (thought almost unreadable, to me) files and scripts. This goes waaaay betong that.
I wouldn't say it's more complicated. With UEFI you have many more options (compared to legacy boot) for how you load your kernel. Just pick one, read the wiki on the method of install and proceed with caution. I get the impression from following the thread that you aren't very familiar with UEFI. Although you certainly don't need to know everything about UEFI (I certainly do not, I just followed the wiki), having a high level understanding of what it is and how to use it (e.g. how to switch in/out of legacy boot) on your machine **before** you start trying to install any Linux distribution would be wise.