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

[Alan E. Davis]

I wonder what Ubuntu is doing, then.  Whether it will be incompatible.

A


On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 3:54 PM, Alan E. Davis <lngndvs at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am now walking through the install step by step.   Initially, it is
> suggested (in the Beginner's Guide) to test whether efivars is mounted.  I
> ran
>
> mount -t efivarfs efivarfs /sys/firmware/efi/efivars
>
> And got this message:
>
> mount: mount point /sys.....efivars does not exist.
>
> I don't knolw whether this is good or bad news.
>  I tested for UEFI in Windows.  The result was positive.
>
>
> This is kind of what I mean, that there are so
> many shades and variations.
>
>
>
> On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 3:45 PM, Alan E. Davis <lngndvs at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> What is the "EFISTUB  bug"?
>>
>> Alan
>>
>>
>> On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 3:42 PM, Alan E. Davis <lngndvs at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I'm staying tuned.
>>>
>>> Alan
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 3:41 PM, Delcypher <delcypher at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 1 May 2014 23:35, Daniel Micay <danielmicay at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> > On 01/05/14 06:28 PM, Alan E. Davis wrote:
>>>> >> After already chrooting, during the Arch installation process, I saw
>>>> some
>>>> >> information that suggested to use a command, as follows:
>>>> >>
>>>> >> mount -t efivarfs efivarfs     /sys/firmware/efi/efivars
>>>> >
>>>> > You don't need to do this, so I'm not sure where you're getting this
>>>> > information. Adding an EFI entry is optional since it already installs
>>>> > itself as the fallback loader too. You can install an EFI loader
>>>> without
>>>> > being booted via EFI.
>>>>
>>>> It's at https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/UEFI#Mount_efivarfs
>>>>
>>>> > It's certainly a lot simpler than using grub... you don't seem to want
>>>> > it to work so obviously it's not going to work, since you're going out
>>>> > of your way to ignore the instructions.
>>>>
>>>> It is unless you're one of the people effected by the EFISTUB bug like
>>>> myself. So I'm currently using GRUB2.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
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