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Hi all,
This week I have installed Archlinux + Windows 7 x64 Prof. in UEFI-mode with the use of the latest Archboot.
I'm posting this to help others, and to check if everything is installed correctly.
THIS WILL ERASE YOUR DATA!! SO DO THIS AT YOUR OWN RISK! MAKE A BACKUP!
I'M NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE OR PROBLEMS THAT CAN OCCUR!
READ THE INSTRUCTIONS BEFORE DOING THIS!
Specs:
ASUS P8H67M PRO v3.0
Intel i5-2400K
8GB DDR3
OCZ Vertex 2
Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB
The steps I have done:
- Copied the Archboot iso contents to an USB-stick
- Boot from USB-stick with UEFI mode
- Use GPT as schema, create the partitions: (No 1M BIOS partition needed)
/dev/sda1 - 200M - Boot/EFI - code: ef00
/dev/sda2 - 4G - Swap
/dev/sda3 - 30G - /
/dev/sda4 - *G - Windows (if needed)On the HDD I have created the partitions:
/dev/sdb1 - 12G - /var
/dev/sdb2 - 8G - /home
/dev/sdb3 - *G - data- Format the created partitions:
/dev/sda1 - vfat - mount point: /boot/efi
/dev/sda2 - swap
/dev/sda3 - btrfs/ext4 - mount point: /
/dev/sdb1 - btrfs/ext4 - mount point: /var
/dev/sdb2 - btrfs/ext4 - mount point: /home- Use as source Internet
- When asked for bootloader use grub2-efi-x86_64 or i386. (Depends on your architect)
- Reboot
- You should now have GRUB added in your Boot-list and can boot Arch *without any problems*.
- You can now install Windows, use the following guide.
- When installed Windows, you should have a new Boot-option Windows Boot Manager, switch back to GRUB to boot Arch again.
- You can switch between them, or add Windows to grub.cfg > check the grub2 wiki. - If this is not working, plugin your UEFI Windows usb-stick and choose startup-repair and try again.
Thanks.
Last edited by beta990 (2012-08-25 13:40:06)
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Can someone please help me?
After the installation, and running (kernel) updates, I get the following errors on grub boot:
error: cannot read the Linux header.
error: you need to load the kernel first.I cannot boot right now.
See my specs above + installation.
Help please...
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Post your /boot/efi/efi/grub/grub.cfg
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Solved: Chroot, mkinitcpio -p linux, reboot
Last edited by beta990 (2012-08-25 13:39:15)
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