Thank you for all the replies, I am a little bit confused.
I just created a new installation on a Laptop (not arch linux though, was just for testing), and it said, that I need a efi00 parition, and but the labels boot and esp on it and also a Bios Protective Area of type BIOS BOOT ith bios_grub flag.
I thought I just needed EFI Parition to boot, no? Best, Lucienne Zitat von Polarian <[email protected]>:
Good afternoon, It seems you have completely messed up the partitioning and bootloader steps. Firstly, if the server supports UEFI booting, which the majority of servers made in the last 2 decades would, messing around with BIOS boot is often not worth it. GPT + UEFI + systemd-boot is by far the easiest way (IMO) to have a rock solid boot chain. Especially when it comes to servers you want to be able to boot a main and fallback kernel/initramfs in case of regressions and systemd-boot makes this easy. The GPT example layout [1] is a good place to start, then proceed with the rest of the installation steps until you get to bootloader, then follow the installation [2] of systemd-boot, then follow the configuration [3] mainly the loader config and the individual loader entries. This should be a lot more stable, grub can be fiddly, and also because grub supports both bios and uefi booting, you have to be careful which you install it for, and ensure you have the right partition layout as others on the list have mentioned. This should at least get you started, good luck! Take care, -- Polarian Website: https://polarian.dev Jabber/XMPP: [email protected] [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Partitioning#UEFI/GPT_layout_example [2] https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Systemd-boot#Installation [3] https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Systemd-boot#Configuration
