doubts on Dual Boot with win10

DarkPassenger · 2018-07-13 09:38:44

the last time, a long time ago, I installed Arch in dual boot with windows I had problems ... I post here my partition table:

https://ibb.co/gvsT7T

Some questions:
1) at the start of the PC, bios gives me the possibility to boot Arch in UEFI or normal mode. honestly I do not have any secure boot options but if I boot with UEFI mode I find that directory

 # ls /sys/firmware/efi/efivars

exists. Btw if I start it in NOT UEFI mode, Arch starts with the logo (the screen where it makes me choose whether to bootArch, if running it from an existing OS etc ...), starting it in UEFI mode the same screen appears without logo and with a " graphics "much less worked (: lol:) ... I do not know what to do here!

2) for the dual boot what precautions should I use?

3) Is the position of the partitions important ??

PS: I bought my PC 6-7 years ago with Win7. And there is now an SSD (this changes something for the installation?).
Thank you

V1del · 2018-07-13 09:43:52

Read through https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Du … th_Windows, all of these questions are answered there.

Moving to NC

Last edited by V1del (2018-07-13 09:45:07)

DarkPassenger · 2018-07-13 09:44:56

I read that yet my doubts are others. ty

V1del · 2018-07-13 09:53:18

Then clarify, you have to decide wether you want to use UEFI or not for the Linux install, as your Windows is likely UEFI (this is the most important differentiating factor, if your Windows is UEFI or BIOS decides wehther you can install linux in UEFI as well or not, or rather if your partition is GPT you have to keep it GPT, and analogous with MBR) you might want to use Linux in that way as well. (This will also allow for integration with whatever boot loader you use). Positions of the partitions are not important, that's one of the boons of UEFI/GPT partition tables.

Instead of a uninformative Windows screenshot, post the output of a

fdisk -l

from an Arch disk

Last edited by V1del (2018-07-13 09:55:33)

Trilby · 2018-07-13 13:18:40

DarkPassenger wrote:

the last time, a long time ago, I installed Arch in dual boot with windows I had problems ...

If you want to avoid similar problems, you will have to give us at least a hint on what they were.

DarkPassenger · 2018-07-13 15:38:10

V1del wrote:

Then clarify, you have to decide wether you want to use UEFI or not for the Linux install, as your Windows is likely UEFI (this is the most important differentiating factor, if your Windows is UEFI or BIOS decides wehther you can install linux in UEFI as well or not, or rather if your partition is GPT you have to keep it GPT, and analogous with MBR) you might want to use Linux in that way as well. (This will also allow for integration with whatever boot loader you use). Positions of the partitions are not important, that's one of the boons of UEFI/GPT partition tables.
Instead of a uninformative Windows screenshot, post the output of a
fdisk -l
from an Arch disk

hi, this is my

fdisk -l

output (linux and efi partitions are from the past try of installation):

https://ibb.co/eHgEE8

thank you

Trilby · 2018-07-13 20:40:14

So you replaced what barely useful screenshot with a completely unreadable and completely useless screenshot?

Post text as text.

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#1 2018-07-13 09:38:44

doubts on Dual Boot with win10

#2 2018-07-13 09:43:52

Re: doubts on Dual Boot with win10

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