[arch-general] EFI-GPT : GRUB won't load

Mike Cloaked mike.cloaked at gmail.com
Fri Jul 18 04:04:33 EDT 2014


On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 10:17 PM, Saleem EDAH-TALLY <nmset at netcourrier.com>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to dual boot Arch with Windows 8.1 on an HP Pavilion 15-n216sf
> with
> Windows 8.1 pre-installed.
>
> I have followed
>
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Unified_Extensible_Firmware_Interface
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Grub
>
>
> So I can't find a way to dual boot with ARCH and I'm stuck with this.
>
> I have noted one weird thing with efibootmgr -v from arch-chroot, with
> fails
> with an invalid pointer message and lots of backtrace, and the following
> output :
>
> BootCurrent: 0001
> Timeout: 2 seconds
> BootOrder: 0002,0000,3000,2001,2002,2003
> Boot0000* Windows Boot Manager  HD(2,c8800,82000,dc61d0de-af32-472f-8c54-
> fdafe931e191)File(\EFI\Microsoft\Boot\bootmgfw.efi)(invalid optional data
> length)
> Boot0001* USB Hard Drive (UEFI) - USB DISK 2.0
>
> I am hereby requesting help to solve this issue.
>
> Thank you.
>

It is possible that the thread at
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=177356 may help?

-- 
mike c


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