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

[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.