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. I had already installed Ubuntu 2014.04, botched the partitioning, but it is possible to boot into it by way of a kludge that my 12 year old son discovered when he installed Ubuntu on his Lenovo Idea Pad: by backing out, each windows boot, into a boot menu that has the Ubuntu setup listed. The ubuntu setup was installed as if by magical accident. It just installed. I hed checked if it is a UEFI system by running a command in Windows: it is. After installing Ubuintu, I disabled secure boot. I have more interesting things to do than spend a week to try to understand this convoluted maze of acronyms and permutations of features. 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 appreciate the efforts of the people here on the Arch Linux mailing list to help. I will certainly ask more questions when I get the nerve to try again (or grow tired of Ubuntu again). I need a complicated series of capabilities, so perhaps the fact that they mostly work ok under Ubuntu is a blessing, and the Arch experiment will come later. Alan Davis On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 11:10 AM, Mark Lee <mark@markelee.com> wrote:
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Thank you for the several comments.
I don't see any smaller boot menu button. And this ultrabook has no CD drive. I was able to boot the Arch iso, and install right up to the Boot Manager step. If I could boot straight into that partition from a USB drive, that would be great.
Several times I have stumbled into nooks and crannies, where, for example, that USB flash drive booted right up.
This is on my agenda, in the near future. RIght now I'm reading up on these multiple issues.
Alan
On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 8:59 AM, Mark Lee <mark@markelee.com> wrote:
On 05/02/2014 12:17 AM, Alan E. Davis wrote:
I am boot the arch May 1 2014 iso off of a usb flash drive.
On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 6:23 PM, Doug Newgard <scimmia@archlinux.info> wrote:
On 2014-05-01 20:18, Mark Lee wrote:
> Salutations, > > If you set up your efistub correctly, you will be able to boot Arch or > Windows using the Uefi boot manager, same system as how you get the > option to boot off a USB stick. UEFI removes the needs for boot > managers. > > Regards, > Man k > > -----Original Message----- > From: "Alan E. Davis" <lngndvs@gmail.com> > Sent: 5/1/2014 9:09 PM > To: "General Discussion about Arch Linux" < arch-general@archlinux.org> > Subject: Re: [arch-general] Installing Archlinux alongside Ubuntu on > aWindows8 UEFI laptop > > I have never seen an option to boot the Arch iso using eufi boot. > > I may not have said that I want to dual boot. I do need to do so. If I > boot directly back into Arch, will there be an option do dual boot? > (Actually triple boot for the time being.) > > Alan Davis > > > On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 5:25 PM, Mark Lee <mark@markelee.com> wrote: > > Salutations, >> >> Okay. Try starting ove again. Boot into the arch iso using uefi boot >> (preferably but not necessary). Then set up your partitions (root, home). >> For boot, mount the windows EFI system partition as /boot. Then install >> the >> system. You won't need to install grub or gummiboot since you can boot >> the >> efistub directly. I would create a folder in /boot named "arch". I would >> then copy the *.img from /boot to /boot/arch and rename the vmlinuz-Linux >> to vmlinuz-linux.efi. If you booted into uefi mode from the Arch iso, you >> should be able to run efibootmgr. Run efibootmgr to see what entries you >> have (you should at least have the windows entry). Then type something >> like >> this : efibootmgr -d <efi disk id ( probably /dev/sda) -p <parition # >> (probably 1> -L "Arch Linux UEFI" -l /arch/vmlinux-Linux.efi -u >> "root=<location of root> initramfs=/arch/initramfs.img rw quiet" -w. You >> should be able to reboot if all went well and you will boot into Arch >> Linux. >> >> Regards, >> Mark >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: "Alan E. Davis" <lngndvs@gmail.com> >> Sent: 5/1/2014 8:07 PM >> To: "General Discussion about Arch Linux" < arch-general@archlinux.org
>> Subject: Re: [arch-general] Installing Archlinux alongside Ubuntu on a >> Windows8 UEFI laptop >> >> I don't understand what is the entry, or fallback entry, or "run
>> entry." I'm sorry. >> >> I'm going to try again later. In fact, I may take the undesireable step >> of >> installing from Manjaro or whatever is the shortcut way to install Arch >> Linux these days. >> >> On the one hand, I don't care to learn about what's Micro$oft's latest >> tortuous trick it has played on the users; and on the other hand, I do >> value to learn the nuts and bolts of GNU/Linux. >> >> Thank you very much. I am willing to give it one more try. I might even >> try to install grub in a partition, as apparently is what Ubuntu has >> done. >> >> Thank you again, >> >> Alan Davis >> >> >> On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 4:59 PM, Daniel Micay < danielmicay@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> On 01/05/14 07:40 PM, Alan E. Davis wrote: >>>> I took a chance, and nothing happened. I installed gummiboot on >> /boot, >>>> where the kernel was. But I didn't move the ubuntu kernel over. >>>> >>>> In the end, Windows still booted, and I was able to get back to a >> boot >>> menu >>>> from there, and boot ubuntu. Not Arch. Yet. >>>> >>>> Thank you for now. >>>> >>>> Alan >>> >>> You need to explicitly run the entry (if you had the EFI stuff mounted) >>> or the fallback entry (if you didn't). >>> >>> >> >> Would you stop breaking the thread? This is the third time you've broken this thread alone.
Not to mention top posting, but I'm not sure if there's a policy on
On 05/02/2014 02:09 PM, Alan E. Davis wrote: the that
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Salutations,
The last time I checked, I had issues with booting UEFI Arch Linux iso off a usb stick. Try a cd if you can.
Regards, Mark
Salutations,
If you can install grub on a usb stick point and write an entry for Arch Linux in grub that'd work.
Meanwhile, do you have an external usb cd/dvd drive? You could try using that if you do.
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