Re: [arch-general] Having trouble understanding UEFI booting

2015-08-29 Thread Mauro Santos
On 29-08-2015 02:24, mick wrote: the original grub was a big advance for its time but has now it has thrown away its greatest advantage over lilo (open the grub.cfg, edit, save reboot - no compiling the config). NowI hate it. You are not required to use grub-mkconfig, you can still edit

Re: [arch-general] Having trouble understanding UEFI booting

2015-08-28 Thread Christian Demsar
On Wed, Aug 26, 2015, at 10:17 PM, mick wrote: The disk is currently split into 11 partitions partsizecodename [...] 2 260mb EF00EFI system partition [...] when installing I have only used partitions 9, 10 11. partitions 1 - 8 were on the disc from the windows

Re: [arch-general] Having trouble understanding UEFI booting

2015-08-28 Thread mick
On Fri, 28 Aug 2015 18:57:10 -0400 Christian Demsar vixsom...@vczf.io wrote: On Wed, Aug 26, 2015, at 10:17 PM, mick wrote: The disk is currently split into 11 partitions partsizecodename [...] 2 260mb EF00 EFI system partition [...] when installing I

Re: [arch-general] Having trouble understanding UEFI booting

2015-08-27 Thread Maxwell Anselm
I also recommend rEFInd for a similar reason. It's much simpler to install than grub and it will probably autodetect both Arch and Windows. On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 8:00 AM, arch-general-requ...@archlinux.org wrote: I never bothered with grub on EFI, especially now that a UEFI boot loader comes

Re: [arch-general] Having trouble understanding UEFI booting

2015-08-27 Thread Tobias Hunger
I never bothered with grub on EFI, especially now that a UEFI boot loader comes bundled into systemd. So why bother installing another one, especially considering that managing grub is way more complex since it handles all the cruft necessary to boot on BIOS that is no longer necessary on EFI?

Re: [arch-general] Having trouble understanding UEFI booting

2015-08-26 Thread Ian
I don't think I have the knowledge to solve your problem, but what is the problem you are having? So far you have just described your partition scheme and that you are stuck somewhere. Which wiki page are you referring to? On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 10:17 PM, mick bare...@tpg.com.au wrote: I've

Re: [arch-general] Having trouble understanding UEFI booting

2015-08-26 Thread mick
On Wed, 26 Aug 2015 23:50:19 -0400 Ian ian.ninjabad...@gmail.com wrote: I don't think I have the knowledge to solve your problem, but what is the problem you are having? So far you have just described your partition scheme and that you are stuck somewhere. Which wiki page are you referring

[arch-general] Having trouble understanding UEFI booting

2015-08-26 Thread mick
I've been trying to install archlinux on my Lenovo B50-70 laptop and got stuck installing grub boot loader inconjunction with UEFI. Either I'm miss understanding the wiki pages on the subject and/or the wiki pages could do with a bit more clarity. I'm dual booting arch and windows 8.1,