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celebrimbor

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From: Philadelphia, PA

Registered: 2012-07-04

Posts: 56

[Solved] Live USB booting problems for UEFI laptop

I want to install Arch on my new Samsung Ativ book 4. I followed these instructions to create bootable USB installation media.
I disabled fast boot and tried to boot via USB but when I select the options to install Arch x86_64, I receive the following error:

Error loading arch/boot/x86_64/vmlinuz: access denied

Q1: What should I do to get rid of this error and start installing Arch?

I receive similar permission errors when I select the options of UEFI shells.

So far I have Ubuntu installed and here is the output of

sudo blkid

/dev/sda1: UUID="F023-9E47" TYPE="vfat" 
/dev/sda2: LABEL="Anoia" UUID="b44b1e11-1bea-48cb-8c11-c5a182b50d2d" TYPE="ext4" 
/dev/sda3: LABEL="Metanoia" UUID="b94d8f3b-d003-4ca3-88b5-617f49a0f4b1" TYPE="jfs" 
/dev/sda4: LABEL="Pronoia" UUID="51e6f419-9881-47ef-9a26-087140d67fbe" TYPE="xfs" 

The first one is /boot/efi and I want to wipe out /dev/sda4 to make space for Arch partitions.
While installing Arch, if I mount /dev/sda1 as /boot/efi, create new partitions for / and /home, would there be any problem dual booting Arch and Ubuntu or would I have to do some UEFI specific modifications as well(apart from those involving the installation of grub for UEFI)?

Last edited by celebrimbor (2013-09-01 01:37:33)

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TheSaint

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Registered: 2007-08-19

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Re: [Solved] Live USB booting problems for UEFI laptop

You might keep Ubuntu settings to boot Arch as well. Just remake the grub-config after installed Arch.
In the bad event that isn't picking up Arch you will have to add a new entry in /boot/grub/grub.cfg on Ubuntu, for the straightforward result (which would be changed if use grub-update or manually either edit /etc/grub.d/40.custom or add /boot/grub/custom.cfg

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WonderWoofy

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From: Los Gatos, CA

Registered: 2012-05-19

Posts: 8,414

Re: [Solved] Live USB booting problems for UEFI laptop

Sometimes installing this lsb-release package helps grub find Arch. Though from what I have read This doesn't always work.

celebrimbor

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From: Philadelphia, PA

Registered: 2012-07-04

Posts: 56

Re: [Solved] Live USB booting problems for UEFI laptop

Thank you very much TheSaint and WonderWoofy for replying.
The "Access denied" error was overcome by enrolling hash of /arch/boot/...../vmlinuz and I was finally able to boot Arch.
After installing Arch I couldn't see entry of Arch in grub so I updated grub in Ubuntu, while updating, it did detect Arch and yet Arch wouldn't appear in the grub menu. So I removed Ubuntu, wiped the hard drive and installed Arch alone and then installed Ubuntu again and to finally able to dual boot Ubuntu and Arch. Don't know how Ubuntu installer automates this but whatever that does it did a good job in the end Again thank you for offering help!

Last edited by celebrimbor (2013-09-01 01:37:07)

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