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#R... ) 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@archlinux.org>:
Have you tried arch with systemd-boot instead of grub2? (I always use systemd-boot since a while😉)
Greets Marcel
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Am 21.12.2017 09:28 schrieb <news@contrepoison.ch>:
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