I wonder what Ubuntu is doing, then. Whether it will be incompatible. A
On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 3:54 PM, Alan E. Davis <[email protected]> wrote: > I am now walking through the install step by step. Initially, it is > suggested (in the Beginner's Guide) to test whether efivars is mounted. I > ran > > mount -t efivarfs efivarfs /sys/firmware/efi/efivars > > And got this message: > > mount: mount point /sys.....efivars does not exist. > > I don't knolw whether this is good or bad news. > I tested for UEFI in Windows. The result was positive. > > > This is kind of what I mean, that there are so > many shades and variations. > > > > On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 3:45 PM, Alan E. Davis <[email protected]> wrote: > >> What is the "EFISTUB bug"? >> >> Alan >> >> >> On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 3:42 PM, Alan E. Davis <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I'm staying tuned. >>> >>> Alan >>> >>> >>> On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 3:41 PM, Delcypher <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> On 1 May 2014 23:35, Daniel Micay <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> > On 01/05/14 06:28 PM, Alan E. Davis wrote: >>>> >> After already chrooting, during the Arch installation process, I saw >>>> some >>>> >> information that suggested to use a command, as follows: >>>> >> >>>> >> mount -t efivarfs efivarfs /sys/firmware/efi/efivars >>>> > >>>> > You don't need to do this, so I'm not sure where you're getting this >>>> > information. Adding an EFI entry is optional since it already installs >>>> > itself as the fallback loader too. You can install an EFI loader >>>> without >>>> > being booted via EFI. >>>> >>>> It's at https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/UEFI#Mount_efivarfs >>>> >>>> > It's certainly a lot simpler than using grub... you don't seem to want >>>> > it to work so obviously it's not going to work, since you're going out >>>> > of your way to ignore the instructions. >>>> >>>> It is unless you're one of the people effected by the EFISTUB bug like >>>> myself. So I'm currently using GRUB2. >>>> >>> >>> >> >
