On 01/05/14 06:41 PM, Delcypher wrote:
On 1 May 2014 23:35, Daniel Micay <danielmicay@gmail.com> wrote:
On 01/05/14 06:28 PM, Alan E. Davis wrote:
After already chrooting, during the Arch installation process, I saw some information that suggested to use a command, as follows:
mount -t efivarfs efivarfs /sys/firmware/efi/efivars
You don't need to do this, so I'm not sure where you're getting this information. Adding an EFI entry is optional since it already installs itself as the fallback loader too. You can install an EFI loader without being booted via EFI.
It's at https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/UEFI#Mount_efivarfs
Nothing there says it's necessary to install gummiboot. You can install gummiboot with pacman -S gummiboot && gummiboot install without being in EFI mode at all. You *do not* need the efivars partition mounted, since it will install itself as the fallback loader. It will take care of installing itself as an entry automatically too if it's mounted, but you can let it do that later or just not do it at all.