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JbstormburstADV

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From: NYC

Registered: 2014-01-04

Posts: 1

[SOLVED]Gummiboot and Windows Loader Entry

Hello,

I've just been introduced to Arch Linux, and so I'm working on setting up a dual-boot with Windows 8.  Since I've heard somewhere about a bug with GRUB, I'm working with Gummiboot and right now, almost everything checks out.  I'm on a single drive, so I have the following partition table:

/dev/sda1     300 MB     Windows Recovery
/dev/sda2     100 MB     Windows ESP Partition     /mnt/boot
/dev/sda3     127 MB     MSR
/dev/sda4      ~117 GB  Primary (C:\)
/dev/sda5     60 GB       Linux FS (ext4)                 /mnt
/dev/sda6     8 GB         Swap                               [SWAP]
/dev/sda7     12 GB       Linux FS (ext4)                 /mnt/var
/dev/sda8     100 GB     Linux FS (ext4)                 /mnt/home

I've already made the partitions, formatted, mounted, and installed with pacstrap.  I also checked and efivars -l does output correctly.  Now, I'm following the Beginner's Guide, and I've done all of the config.  The only issue is that when I installed gummiboot, there was no entry made for Windows Loader, if I read the output right.  In that case, how do I manually add the entry, since that is covered sparingly in both the Beginner's Guide and gummiboot articles, at least if you need to add Windows.

In addition to that, how should I add Arch to the Windows Bootloader, as I'm unsure of what I need to do with bcdedit, or if EasyBCD 2.2's compatibility with EFI is confirmed.  Also, if anyone has any good program recommendations in lieu of EasyBCD, it would be appreciated.

Thank you for your time, and I hope you could respond ASAP.

Per Laborem ad Astra,
JbstormburstADV

EDIT:  huh...  Apparently, Wndows Loader is detected in the background.  You may want to make mention of that in the Beginner's Guide.  Anyways,with that, this is all null.

Last edited by JbstormburstADV (2014-01-04 23:06:13)