[arch-general] Installing Archlinux alongside Ubuntu on aWindows8 UEFI laptop

[Alan E. Davis]

I am boot the arch May 1 2014 iso off of a usb flash drive.




On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 6:23 PM, Doug Newgard <scimmia at archlinux.info> wrote:

> On 2014-05-01 20:18, Mark Lee wrote:
>
>> Salutations,
>>
>> If you set up your efistub correctly, you will be able to boot Arch or
>> Windows using the Uefi boot manager, same system as how you get the
>> option to boot off a USB stick. UEFI removes the needs for boot
>> managers.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Man k
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: "Alan E. Davis" <lngndvs at gmail.com>
>> Sent: ‎5/‎1/‎2014 9:09 PM
>> To: "General Discussion about Arch Linux" <arch-general at archlinux.org>
>> Subject: Re: [arch-general] Installing Archlinux alongside Ubuntu on
>> aWindows8 UEFI laptop
>>
>> I have never seen an option to boot the Arch iso using eufi boot.
>>
>> I may not have said that I want to dual boot.  I do need to do so.  If I
>> boot directly back into Arch, will there be an option do dual boot?
>> (Actually triple boot for the time being.)
>>
>> Alan Davis
>>
>>
>> On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 5:25 PM, Mark Lee <mark at markelee.com> wrote:
>>
>>  Salutations,
>>>
>>> Okay. Try starting ove again. Boot into the arch iso using uefi boot
>>> (preferably but not necessary). Then set up your partitions (root, home).
>>> For boot, mount the windows EFI system partition as /boot. Then install
>>> the
>>> system. You won't need to install grub or gummiboot since you can boot
>>> the
>>> efistub directly. I would create a folder in /boot named "arch". I would
>>> then copy the *.img from /boot to /boot/arch and rename the vmlinuz-Linux
>>> to vmlinuz-linux.efi. If you booted into uefi mode from the Arch iso, you
>>> should be able to run efibootmgr. Run efibootmgr to see what entries you
>>> have (you should at least have the windows entry). Then type something
>>> like
>>> this : efibootmgr -d <efi disk id ( probably /dev/sda) -p <parition #
>>> (probably 1> -L "Arch Linux UEFI" -l /arch/vmlinux-Linux.efi -u
>>> "root=<location of root> initramfs=/arch/initramfs.img rw quiet" -w. You
>>> should be able to reboot if all went well and you will boot into Arch
>>> Linux.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Mark
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: "Alan E. Davis" <lngndvs at gmail.com>
>>> Sent: ‎5/‎1/‎2014 8:07 PM
>>> To: "General Discussion about Arch Linux" <arch-general at archlinux.org>
>>> Subject: Re: [arch-general] Installing Archlinux alongside Ubuntu on a
>>> Windows8 UEFI laptop
>>>
>>> I don't understand what is the entry, or fallback entry, or "run the
>>> entry."   I'm sorry.
>>>
>>> I'm going to try again later.  In fact, I may take the undesireable step
>>> of
>>> installing from Manjaro or whatever is the shortcut way to install Arch
>>> Linux these days.
>>>
>>> On the one hand, I don't care to learn about what's Micro$oft's latest
>>> tortuous trick it has played on the users; and on the other hand, I do
>>> value to learn the nuts and bolts of GNU/Linux.
>>>
>>> Thank you very much.  I am willing to give it one more try.  I might even
>>> try to install grub in a partition, as apparently is what Ubuntu has
>>> done.
>>>
>>> Thank you again,
>>>
>>> Alan Davis
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 4:59 PM, Daniel Micay <danielmicay at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> > On 01/05/14 07:40 PM, Alan E. Davis wrote:
>>> > > I took a chance, and nothing happened.   I installed gummiboot on
>>> /boot,
>>> > > where the kernel was.  But I didn't move the ubuntu kernel over.
>>> > >
>>> > > In the end, Windows still booted, and I was able to get back to a
>>> boot
>>> > menu
>>> > > from there, and boot ubuntu.  Not Arch.  Yet.
>>> > >
>>> > > Thank you for now.
>>> > >
>>> > > Alan
>>> >
>>> > You need to explicitly run the entry (if you had the EFI stuff mounted)
>>> > or the fallback entry (if you didn't).
>>> >
>>> >
>>>
>>>
> Would you stop breaking the thread? This is the third time you've broken
> this thread alone.
>
> Not to mention top posting, but I'm not sure if there's a policy on that
> here.
>