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charly1811

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From: Abidjan - Africa/Ivory Coast

Registered: 2013-09-01

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[SOLVED] Problem with gummiboot on Surface Pro

Hi everyone .
I have tried to install arch Linux on my Surface Pro with a USB kEY . Everything gone well and at the time of choosing a bootloader i decided to use gummiboot :

pacman -S gummiboot
gummiboot install

I rebooted my surface and it successfully booted into gummiboot. I saw the windows 8 entry was missing and i have made a wrong entry for Archlinux on my arch.conf

title           Arch Linux
linux         /vmlinuz_linux
initrd         /initramfs-linux.img
options      root=/dev/sda5 rw

When it boot it i got This error
Error loading vmlinuz_linux

So to edit the the wrong line on my arch.conf i decided to boot my archlinux USB key (By holding vol down, press power and release vol down when I see SURFACE) but it didn't worked it redirect me always to gummiboot. I have also tried to boot to my recovery USB but same result. I can't go into Advanced startup too. Now I am lost and don't know what to do .
Please help me

Last edited by charly1811 (2014-01-23 21:52:33)

charly1811

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From: Abidjan - Africa/Ivory Coast

Registered: 2013-09-01

Posts: 3

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Re: [SOLVED] Problem with gummiboot on Surface Pro

Hi people  .  I Have solved the problem :

1. Why the usb key did'nt booted ?
A : It was corrupted

2. Why there was not A windows Entry
A : I formatted the EFI Partition . NEVER DO THAT IF YOU'RE PLANNING TO DUALBOOT WITH WINDOWS . Just mount it as /mnt/boot

Last edited by charly1811 (2014-01-23 21:55:52)