[arch-general] UEFI madness

[David Benfell]

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On 03/02/2013 03:31 AM, Mika Fischer wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 12:13 PM, Jan Steffens <jan.steffens at gmail.com> wrote:
>> With the
>> ESP at /boot, pacman automatically installs the kernels where they
>> need to be, and no ugly copying hacks are necessary.
>
> Do you mean something other than "/boot/vmlinuz-linux" by "where they
> need to be"? Because that location is not really ideal. To avoid
> conflicts with other operating systems the kernels should go into an
> OS-specific subdirectory on the ESP (i.e. /boot/arch/vmlinuz-linux or
> even /boot/EFI/arch/vmlinuz-linux, I never quite understood what the
> EFI directory is there for...).
As it happens, this system will *only* be dual-boot with Windows, so
Jan's suggestion works fine with no conflict, but yes, this gave me
pause. I think if I were experimenting with multiple distributions or
some BSDs, however, I'd definitely need to do something more like what
Mika suggested.

In any event, I now have a bootable Linux. I've been between it and
Windows and back now so the emergency is covered. It would be nice to
clean up rEFInd, however, since it still blows up when it tries to boot
Arch directly rather than through gummiboot. I'll see if I can find the
configuration and make sense of it.

Thanks!
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