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 <danielmi...@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). > >
