[arch-general] Install Archlinux on HP Elitebook

[Ralf Mardorf]

I migrated from grub2 to syslinux. When using grub2 I manually edited
grub.cfg. I removed all the useless crap from grub.cfg and never used
the config for the config and all that auto-configuration features of
grub2. However, I've got a dual head setup and syslinux isn't able to
display the menu on my HDMI LCD monitor, if the VGA CRT monitor is
connected, but turned off. Apart from this I dislike chainloading and
sync of /boot when maintaining other Linux installs in a systemd-nspawn
container is a PITA. IOW syslinux is far away from being perfect, OTOH
syslinux.cfg is clean and self-explaining:

[rocketmouse at archlinux ~]$ cat /boot/syslinux/syslinux.cfg
# http://syslinux.zytor.com/wiki/index.php/Doc/menu

PROMPT 0
TIMEOUT 600
UI menu.c32
MENU HIDDEN
MENU CLEAR
MENU COLOR screen      0;30;40
MENU COLOR border      0;30;40
MENU COLOR title       1;37;44
MENU COLOR unsel       0;37;40
MENU COLOR hotkey      1;37;40
MENU COLOR hotsel      7;37;40
MENU COLOR sel         7;37;40
MENU COLOR disabled    1;37;40
MENU COLOR scrollbar   0;30;40
MENU COLOR tabmsg      0;30;40
MENU COLOR cmdmark     0;31;40
MENU COLOR cmdline     0;37;40
MENU COLOR timeout_msg 0;37;40
MENU COLOR timeout     1;37;40

# Used hotkeys: ^8 ^A ^C ^e ^H ^M ^P ^Q ^R ^t ^V
DEFAULT Rt

MENU TITLE HAL 9000
LABEL Toolbox
    MENU LABEL Toolbox
    MENU DISABLE
MENU SEPARATOR


LABEL Hardware
    MENU LABEL ^Hardware Detection
    COM32 hdt.c32

LABEL Memtest
    MENU LABEL Memtest^86+
    LINUX /.boot/ubuntu_moonstudio/boot/memtest86+.bin

LABEL Reset
    MENU LABEL R^eset
    COM32 reboot.c32


MENU SEPARATOR
MENU SEPARATOR
LABEL Arch Menu
    MENU LABEL Arch Linux
    MENU DISABLE
MENU SEPARATOR


LABEL Threadirqs
    MENU LABEL Arch Linux ^threadirqs
    LINUX ../vmlinuz-linux
    APPEND root=LABEL=archlinux ro threadirqs
    INITRD ../initramfs-linux.img

LABEL Pussytoes
    MENU LABEL Arch Linux Rt ^Pussytoes
    LINUX ../vmlinuz-linux-rt-pussytoes
    APPEND root=LABEL=archlinux ro
    INITRD ../initramfs-linux-rt-pussytoes.img

LABEL Cornflower
    MENU LABEL Arch Linux Rt ^Cornflower
    LINUX ../vmlinuz-linux-rt-cornflower
    APPEND root=LABEL=archlinux ro
    INITRD ../initramfs-linux-rt-cornflower.img

LABEL Rt
    MENU LABEL Arch Linux ^Rt
    LINUX ../vmlinuz-linux-rt
    APPEND root=LABEL=archlinux ro
    INITRD ../initramfs-linux-rt.img

LABEL Arch
    MENU LABEL ^Arch Linux
    LINUX ../vmlinuz-linux
    APPEND root=LABEL=archlinux ro
    INITRD ../initramfs-linux.img


MENU SEPARATOR
MENU SEPARATOR
LABEL Other Menu
    MENU LABEL Other Linux
    MENU DISABLE
MENU SEPARATOR


LABEL Moonstudio
    MENU LABEL Ubuntu X ^Moon Studio lowlatency
    LINUX /.boot/ubuntu_moonstudio/boot/vmlinuz-lowlatency
    APPEND root=LABEL=moonstudio ro
    INITRD /.boot/ubuntu_moonstudio/boot/initrd.img-lowlatency

LABEL Light
    MENU LABEL Ubuntu ^Q LightScribe Rt
    LINUX /.boot/ubuntu_q/boot/vmlinuz-3.6.5-rt14
    APPEND root=LABEL=q ro nomodeset
    INITRD /.boot/ubuntu_q/boot/initrd.img-3.6.5-rt14

LABEL Suse
    MENU LABEL ^Vintage  SUSE 11.2   Rt
    LINUX /.boot/suse11.2/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31.6-rt19
    APPEND root=LABEL=suse11.2
    INITRD /.boot/suse11.2/boot/initrd-2.6.31.6-rt19