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

Mark Lee mark at markelee.com
Thu May 1 18:56:39 EDT 2014


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On 05/01/2014 06:54 PM, Alan E. Davis 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.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
Salutations,

You need to boot into UEFI mode. So when you're loading the Arch Linux
ISO, make sure you select to boot into UEFI mode (usually an option in
the boot menu)

Regards,
Mark
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