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

[Alan E. Davis]

Ubuntu's kernel is on the / partition.  Would I move it to the ESP
partition, in that case?

And I will mount that partition on /mnt/boot ?

I have never used gummiboot.  Since the Arch system is already to go, but
not yet with a boot management setup, I should manually move that kernel to
the ESP partition as well?

Alan Davis


On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 3:06 PM, Daniel Micay <danielmicay at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 01/05/14 06:02 PM, Alan E. Davis wrote:
> > This looks interesting, and I am tempted to walk into the deep water.  It
> > raises some questions.
> >
> > Will gummiboot or refind also find the Ubuntu partition?
>
> You should use the ESP (EFI system partition) to store all of the
> kernels. The loader (gummiboot) will find the Windows loader along with
> any kernels on that partition. You really aren't going to want separate
> boot partitions.
>
> > The original partition structure of the machine there were four or five
> > partitions, and another one popped up in the higher end of the disk.   I
> > stumbled into the install, with the Ubuntu installer, and ended up with
> > four linux partitions in addition to the Windoze partitions.  At some
> point
> > I used gparted to resize, and this might have been the step that botched
> > the structure.  But in any event, I have three Linux partitions of 50G
> > each, and a swap partition.  Ubuntu is sitting in one of those
> partitions.
> >
> > I have no idea what is an EFI partition.  I have seen instructions,
> > presumably for those who are wiping the Windows and starting from
> scratch,
> > to make an EFI partition.
> >
> > I finally realized why there are so many partitions, and learned to use
> > gdisk when walking through the Archlinux install.
> >
> > Here is a some information from the gdisk listing:
> >
> >    Nbr   Size         Code   Name
> >   -----+------------+------+-------------------------
> >      1   1000.0 MiB   2700
> >      2   260.0 MiB    EF00     EFI system partition
> >      3   128.0 MiB    0C01    Microsoft reserved part
> >      4   49.6 GiB     0700      Basic data partition
> >      5   9.7 GiB      2700        Lenovo (?recovery?)
> >      6   10.0 GiB     8200       Linux SWAP
> >      7   49.4 GiB     8300       Archlinux /
> >      8   58.8 GiB     8300       /home
> >      9   1024.0 KiB   EF02     "bios_grub" (Ubuntu?)
> >     10   59.8 GiB     8300       UBUNTU /
>
> It's the one marked EFI system partition (ESP).
>
>