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
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
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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 have
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.
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
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
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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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
On 05/03/2014 04:55 PM, Delcypher wrote:
On 3 May 2014 05:53, Alan E. Davis lngn...@gmail.com 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
On 3 May 2014 05:53, Alan E. Davis lngn...@gmail.com 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.
This is an interesting suggestion:
On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 7:55 AM, Delcypher delcyp...@gmail.com 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
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 delcyp...@gmail.com 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
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 lngn...@gmail.com wrote:
This is an interesting suggestion:
On Sat, May 3, 2014 at
Sent: 5/1/2014 9:09 PM
To: General Discussion about Arch Linux arch-general@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
/2014 9:09 PM
To: General Discussion about Arch Linux arch-general@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
E. Davis lngn...@gmail.com
Sent: 5/1/2014 9:09 PM
To: General Discussion about Arch Linux arch-general@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
: Alan E. Davis lngn...@gmail.com
Sent: 5/1/2014 9:09 PM
To: General Discussion about Arch Linux
arch-general@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
...@gmail.com
Sent: 5/1/2014 9:09 PM
To: General Discussion about Arch Linux arch-general@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
Salutations,
What are you booting the Arch Iso off of?
Regards,
Mark
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From: Alan E. Davis lngn...@gmail.com
Sent: 5/1/2014 9:09 PM
To: General Discussion about Arch Linux arch-general@archlinux.org
Subject: Re: [arch-general] Installing Archlinux alongside Ubuntu
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From: Alan E. Davis lngn...@gmail.com
Sent: 5/1/2014 9:09 PM
To: General Discussion about Arch Linux arch-general@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
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
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