On 01/05/14 08:06 PM, Alan E. Davis wrote:
I don't understand what is the entry, or fallback entry, or "run the 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.
(U)EFI was created by Intel replace legacy BIOS, it had nothing to do with Microsoft. AFAIK, OS X adopted it long before Windows. I'm not sure why you keep mentioning Microsoft over and over. Arch has great UEFI support and it results in a significant improvement in boot time compared to legacy BIOS booting. The gummiboot loader is a huge simplication over grub, so there's not much to complain about there either.