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rafalsk

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Registered: 2018-03-11

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[SOLVED] debian and archlinux on debian's grub

I have tried to install archlinux on my new laptop:
Dell Latitude 5490
Two Graphic cards: Intel 920 (i915) and GeForce MX130.
SSD NVMe 500GB drive.
UEFI boot partition, Windows 10

After many trials I could not run archlinux installer (resulted in black screen), I tried debian installer and finally I got debian installed with its grub. Then from debian I installed archlinux
using this page: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/In … ting_Linux without setting up a new archlinux bootloader. On debian I run update-grub which found windows 10 and archlinux systems.

I should mention that under debian I have to set 'nomodeset' in grub to boot it and run Xorg and Xfce. However when booting archlinux similarly I set 'nomodeset' but I cannot run Xorg. I tried many things: installing intel and nouveau packages then removing them and installing nvidia package but with no result. Before debugging the Xorg issue I would like to know how to organize two linux distro in EFI partition assuming that I have already one grub under debian?

My /boot/ under debian is as follows

drwxr-xr-x  4 root root     4096 mar 10 13:25 .
drwxr-xr-x 22 root root     4096 mar 10 11:17 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   197460 lut 14 06:56 config-4.14.0-3-amd64
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   197970 lut 18 09:36 config-4.15.0-1-amd64
drwx------  3 root root     4096 sty  1  1970 efi
drwxr-xr-x  5 root root     4096 mar 10 11:18 grub
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 22020165 mar 10 11:17 initrd.img-4.14.0-3-amd64
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 22461394 mar 10 13:25 initrd.img-4.15.0-1-amd64
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  3039249 lut 14 06:56 System.map-4.14.0-3-amd64
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  3084776 lut 18 09:36 System.map-4.15.0-1-amd64
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  4839184 lut 14 06:56 vmlinuz-4.14.0-3-amd64
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  4917008 lut 18 09:36 vmlinuz-4.15.0-1-amd64

and 'df -h'

udev             16G     0   16G   0% /dev
tmpfs           3,2G  9,3M  3,2G   1% /run
/dev/nvme0n1p6   55G   22G   31G  42% /
tmpfs            16G   19M   16G   1% /dev/shm
tmpfs           5,0M  4,0K  5,0M   1% /run/lock
tmpfs            16G     0   16G   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/nvme0n1p1  546M   84M  463M  16% /boot/efi
tmpfs           3,2G  8,0K  3,2G   1% /run/user/1000

Under archlinux I mounted /dev/nvme0n1p1 to /boot/ instead of /boot/efi. So far I had experience with MBR grub and it seems that EFI is completely different.

Any help?

Last edited by rafalsk (2018-03-14 13:36:54)

Head_on_a_Stick

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Re: [SOLVED] debian and archlinux on debian's grub

If you're not using Arch to boot the system then there is no point mounting /boot to the ESP.

Debian's GRUB can boot Arch just fine without any Arch files on the ESP.

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rafalsk

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Registered: 2018-03-11

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Re: [SOLVED] debian and archlinux on debian's grub

Thank you. I also installed rEFInd to simplify the situation.