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

[Alan E. Davis]

I saw no options.  The iso image on the USB drive booted without any
problem or selection.  DOes it matter that this is a May 1 2014
installation iso?

Alan


On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 3:56 PM, Mark Lee <mark at markelee.com> wrote:

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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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