[arch-general] Installing Archlinux alongside Ubuntu on a Windows 8 UEFI laptop

[Alan E. Davis]

I see another level of complexity here, in a statement on a page about
Gummiboot on the wiki:

* Warning: *Gummiboot simply provides a boot menu for EFISTUB kernels. In
case you have issues booting EFISTUB kernels like in
FS#33745<https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/33745>,
you should use a boot loader which does not use EFISTUB, like
GRUB<https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GRUB>,
Syslinux <https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Syslinux> or
ELILO<https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Bootloaders#ELILO>
.

Would grub work, using this, or a similar, approach?


On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 3:15 PM, Alan E. Davis <lngndvs at gmail.com> wrote:

> Ubuntu's kernel is on the / partition.  Would I move it to the ESP
> partition, in that case?
>
> And I will mount that partition on /mnt/boot ?
>
> I have never used gummiboot.  Since the Arch system is already to go, but
> not yet with a boot management setup, I should manually move that kernel to
> the ESP partition as well?
>
> Alan Davis
>
>
> On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 3:06 PM, Daniel Micay <danielmicay at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> On 01/05/14 06:02 PM, Alan E. Davis wrote:
>> > This looks interesting, and I am tempted to walk into the deep water.
>>  It
>> > raises some questions.
>> >
>> > Will gummiboot or refind also find the Ubuntu partition?
>>
>> You should use the ESP (EFI system partition) to store all of the
>> kernels. The loader (gummiboot) will find the Windows loader along with
>> any kernels on that partition. You really aren't going to want separate
>> boot partitions.
>>
>> > The original partition structure of the machine there were four or five
>> > partitions, and another one popped up in the higher end of the disk.   I
>> > stumbled into the install, with the Ubuntu installer, and ended up with
>> > four linux partitions in addition to the Windoze partitions.  At some
>> point
>> > I used gparted to resize, and this might have been the step that botched
>> > the structure.  But in any event, I have three Linux partitions of 50G
>> > each, and a swap partition.  Ubuntu is sitting in one of those
>> partitions.
>> >
>> > I have no idea what is an EFI partition.  I have seen instructions,
>> > presumably for those who are wiping the Windows and starting from
>> scratch,
>> > to make an EFI partition.
>> >
>> > I finally realized why there are so many partitions, and learned to use
>> > gdisk when walking through the Archlinux install.
>> >
>> > 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 /
>>
>> It's the one marked EFI system partition (ESP).
>>
>>
>