[arch-general] Fwd: Installing Archlinux alongside Ubuntu on a Windows 8 UEFI laptop
Here is a some information from the gdisk listing:
Nbr Size Code Name -----+------------+------+------------------------- 1 1000.0 MiB 2700 2 260.0 MiB EF00 EFI system partition 3 128.0 MiB 0C01 Microsoft reserved part 4 49.6 GiB 0700 Basic data partition 5 9.7 GiB 2700 Lenovo (?recovery?) 6 10.0 GiB 8200 Linux SWAP 7 49.4 GiB 8300 Archlinux / 8 58.8 GiB 8300 /home 9 1024.0 KiB EF02 "bios_grub" (Ubuntu?) 10 59.8 GiB 8300 UBUNTU /
You do not need a bios_grub partition. That is for systems with a BIOS (rather than UEFI) that want use a GPT partition table rather than MBR. You are using UEFI, therefore you are probably using GPT already and so a bios_grub partition is completely unnecessary.
Hello:
The BIOS_GRUB partition was installed by Ubuntu, I think, without any help
from me.
I am trying to understand the next step.
I have to reboot into that Arch install, and walk back through it. When I
get to the point of needing a boot manager, I will install gummiboot. Give
it a try. Thank you.
Alan
On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 3:35 PM, Delcypher
Here is a some information from the gdisk listing:
Nbr Size Code Name -----+------------+------+------------------------- 1 1000.0 MiB 2700 2 260.0 MiB EF00 EFI system partition 3 128.0 MiB 0C01 Microsoft reserved part 4 49.6 GiB 0700 Basic data partition 5 9.7 GiB 2700 Lenovo (?recovery?) 6 10.0 GiB 8200 Linux SWAP 7 49.4 GiB 8300 Archlinux / 8 58.8 GiB 8300 /home 9 1024.0 KiB EF02 "bios_grub" (Ubuntu?) 10 59.8 GiB 8300 UBUNTU /
You do not need a bios_grub partition. That is for systems with a BIOS (rather than UEFI) that want use a GPT partition table rather than MBR. You are using UEFI, therefore you are probably using GPT already and so a bios_grub partition is completely unnecessary.
On 01/05/14 06:40 PM, Alan E. Davis wrote:
Hello:
The BIOS_GRUB partition was installed by Ubuntu, I think, without any help from me.
I am trying to understand the next step.
I have to reboot into that Arch install, and walk back through it. When I get to the point of needing a boot manager, I will install gummiboot. Give it a try. Thank you.
Alan
All you need is to mount the ESP as /boot (and make sure it continues to be mounted that way via fstab) and pacman -S gummiboot && gummiboot install. You don't need to worry about mounting anything else or deal with EFI entries. Installing gummiboot will take care of setting it up as the fallback loader along with making an entry if it can (but it's not required).
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 05/01/2014 06:50 PM, Daniel Micay wrote:
On 01/05/14 06:40 PM, Alan E. Davis wrote:
Hello:
The BIOS_GRUB partition was installed by Ubuntu, I think, without any help from me.
I am trying to understand the next step.
I have to reboot into that Arch install, and walk back through it. When I get to the point of needing a boot manager, I will install gummiboot. Give it a try. Thank you.
Alan
All you need is to mount the ESP as /boot (and make sure it continues to be mounted that way via fstab) and pacman -S gummiboot && gummiboot install. You don't need to worry about mounting anything else or deal with EFI entries. Installing gummiboot will take care of setting it up as the fallback loader along with making an entry if it can (but it's not required).
Salutations, Just use the Microsoft reserved partition (ESP partition : ef00). Store your kernel efistub there. Then write to the firmware that you're going to boot from that EFI partition. There is no need to generate any extra partitions from the Microsoft boot scheme since EFI booting is cross platform. An example would be (following your layout scheme) : 1) EFI system partition (Store all kernel efistubs in here) 2) Microsoft reserved part (I think this is Microsoft system recovery stuff) 3) Basic data partition (This should be the windows: C drive) 4) Linux swap (your disk-paging partition) 5) Arch Linux / (Arch linux root) 6) /home (your home directory, I'm assuming it's separate because you want to share with ubuntu) 7) Ubuntu / (Ubuntu root directory) Regards, Mark -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iF4EAREIAAYFAlNi0OwACgkQZ/Z80n6+J/bmtgEAmYP+eiTTvoos9hFe1YgA/JaF UxgGzkn3G7QnLyns6bQBAJYSj8FQgVHleqpdBhs3Xk9GWxUvRbgWKU6fwfMF6bzB =kYN8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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Alan E. Davis
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Daniel Micay
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Delcypher
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Mark Lee