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

[Doug Newgard]

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.