[arch-general] Difficulty installing UEFI

Paul M. Foster paulf at quillandmouse.com
Mon Nov 15 22:06:27 UTC 2021


On 11/15/21 4:52 PM, Bjoern Franke via arch-general wrote:
> Hi,
>>
>> I have a 2017 Lenovo ThinkCentre M800 that I'm using to try to install
>> Arch on a hard drive. I've formatted the drive (under Arch, using fdisk,
>> with gpt partition, etc.), gone through the installation up to the point
>> where I run grub-install with this command:
>>
>> grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --bootloader-id=grub_uefi --recheck
>>
>
> what device did you use for installing? Did you select "Boot UEFI"? Is 
> "BIOS Legacy"-mode enabled in BIOS?
>
> Regards
> Bjoern

Not sure I understand what you mean. I used a thumb drive with the Arch 
ISO on it, and tweaked the BIOS to boot that drive first.

Paul




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