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

[Alan E. Davis]

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 <delcypher at gmail.com> wrote:

> > 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.
>