Re: [arch-general] Win 10 Dual boot nightmare

2016-03-16 Thread Bennett Piater
On 03/15/2016 06:26 PM, Zachary Kline wrote: > Hi Murari, > > Thank you for this suggestion. It seems to have worked as expected. My laptop > defaults to Arch, but I can boot Windows with the second entry. > I hope I remember to upgrade the renamed image when systems-boot changes. I > don’t an

Re: [arch-general] Win 10 Dual boot nightmare

2016-03-15 Thread Zachary Kline
Hi Murari, Thank you for this suggestion. It seems to have worked as expected. My laptop defaults to Arch, but I can boot Windows with the second entry. I hope I remember to upgrade the renamed image when systems-boot changes. I don’t anticipate that being too often, thankfully. Best and thanks

Re: [arch-general] Win 10 Dual boot nightmare

2016-03-15 Thread Sascha Shaw
Am 15.03.2016 um 05:06 schrieb Zachary Kline: > Hi All, > > I’ve been a Linux user off and on for ten years or so, and over the past > while really come to enjoy the simplicity of Arch. I decided to install on > my new HP laptop which came pre-installed with Windows 10. > > I honestly almost fee

Re: [arch-general] Win 10 Dual boot nightmare

2016-03-15 Thread Murari
Hi Zachary, I have an HP laptop as well, and I think the problem you're facing is that neither HP nor Windows are good EFI citizens. On the HP laptop that I have, for instance, the EFI boot manager does not respect any global NVRAM variables except for BootNext. Default, BootOrder etc. are all ign

Re: [arch-general] Win 10 Dual boot nightmare

2016-03-14 Thread Florian Pelz
Hello, You can install GRUB for EFI too. If Windows does break (it shouldn't) then [1] contains instructions on how to fix it from a Windows DVD/USB installer. You can download the Windows installer image from Microsoft. I actually had to put the Windows installer on a multiboot USB to make it bo

[arch-general] Win 10 Dual boot nightmare

2016-03-14 Thread Zachary Kline
Hi All, I’ve been a Linux user off and on for ten years or so, and over the past while really come to enjoy the simplicity of Arch. I decided to install on my new HP laptop which came pre-installed with Windows 10. I honestly almost feel like I preferred the BIOS/boot sector situation. I unde