Following up on installing Archlinux
Preface to the Appendix of this thread, with thanks and deference to those
who have helped so far: I am definitely not up to speed on the nuts and
bolts of GNU/Linux, I am a user, needing to get this tool working. That
being said, I have Archlinux working now,
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On 05/07/2014 05:16 PM, Alan E. Davis wrote:
> I would like to sign off with a little information about how this has
> gone.
>
> I had used the "F12" boot options method once. Subsequently, the Windows
> Boot Loader appeared on the GRUB menu.
I would like to sign off with a little information about how this has
gone.
I had used the "F12" boot options method once. Subsequently, the Windows
Boot Loader appeared on the GRUB menu. I have since then installed Fedora
20, and it went very well.
I now see that if once specifies "UEFI" as
Thank you for the responses, once again. I found that on my laptop, F12
will give all boot options. The windows boot manaer is listed, as are any
USB iso, and (I think) grub wiht three Linux options.
So all is well, pretty much. I am still plannin to experiment with
installing Arch.
Alan
On
Excerpts from Alan E. Davis's message from Mon 05-May-14 22:03:
> However, I have run into a wrinkle where nothing is working,
> so i need Windoze, much to my consternation.
Well, the easiest and quickest way would be installing Windows in
VirtualBox, that's a think you may want to have anyway.
P
Well, the new wrinkle is that I can no longer find Windows. I turned back
to "Both" as the boot mode. All I see is the two Ubuntu options, and
Manjaro, the default.
Now I am in an unbeleivable situation where I am applying for a teaching
certificate in a state where the system actually will not
> Can I safely treat this Manjaro as an Arch installation? I did this with
> Antergos a couple of years ao, and it worked out fine. Will I run into a
> roadblock down the road?
Antergos is Arch Linux, Manjaro isn't.
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Following up, I have taken more steps, with partial success.
The following two steps were taken:
1. Installed Kubuntu the same way I originally insalled Ubuntu. This
time I noticed that the system booted in a BIOS and not UEFI state. The
result was that now two Ubuntu entries are foun
On 05/03/2014 04:55 PM, Delcypher wrote:
On 3 May 2014 05:53, Alan E. Davis wrote:
I have installed Archlinux on a partition, with a home partition. I just
cannot boot into it. I was able to boot into the USB flash drive. I never
saw any messages about UEFI or legacy.
The USB image support
In fact, in the partition table I have referenced above, the partition
preceding the Ubuntu / partition, has a "bios_grub" flag set, and it is
about 1 MB in length.
On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 7:56 PM, Alan E. Davis wrote:
> This is an interesting suggestion:
>
> On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 7:55 AM, Delc
On 05/03/2014 07:56 PM, Alan E. Davis wrote:
This is an interesting suggestion:
On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 7:55 AM, Delcypher wrote:
dy installed Ubuntu successfully you probably
have a working boot manager from that install. So why not just use
that to boot into Arch Linux? I think Ubuntu uses G
This is an interesting suggestion:
On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 7:55 AM, Delcypher wrote:
> dy installed Ubuntu successfully you probably
> have a working boot manager from that install. So why not just use
> that to boot into Arch Linux? I think Ubuntu uses GRUB2 so you can
> have Ubuntu regenerate t
On 3 May 2014 05:53, Alan E. Davis wrote:
> I am way past confused about these issues.
> I have installed Archlinux on a partition, with a home partition. I just
> cannot boot into it. I was able to boot into the USB flash drive. I never
> saw any messages about UEFI or legacy.
The USB image
you get the
> >>>>>> option to boot off a USB stick. UEFI removes the needs for boot
> >>>>>> managers.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Regards,
> >>>>>> Man k
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>&
;> 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.
&g
tick. UEFI removes the needs for boot
> >>> managers.
> >>>
> >>> Regards,
> >>> Man k
> >>>
> >>> -Original Message-
> >>> From: "Alan E. Davis"
> >>> Sent: 5/1/2014 9:09 PM
> >&
nagers.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Man k
>>>
>>> -Original Message-
>>> From: "Alan E. Davis"
>>> Sent: 5/1/2014 9:09 PM
>>> To: "General Discussion about Arch Linux"
>>> Subject: Re: [arch-g
5/1/2014 9:09 PM
>> To: "General Discussion about Arch Linux"
>> 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
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From: "Alan E. Davis"
Sent: 5/1/2014 9:09 PM
To: "General Discussion about Arch Linux"
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
Salutations,
What are you booting the Arch Iso off of?
Regards,
Mark
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From: "Alan E. Davis"
Sent: 5/1/2014 9:09 PM
To: "General Discussion about Arch Linux"
Subject: Re: [arch-general] Installing Archlinux alongside Ubuntu on aWindows8
UEFI
Davis"
Sent: 5/1/2014 9:09 PM
To: "General Discussion about Arch Linux"
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
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