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3l_Di4bl0

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[SOLVED] Dual booting Arch & W10 on different drives.

I already have a windows 10 drive, and have another drive that I wish to install arch to, so I want to make sure I got the installation part right before I begin.
I plan to use rEFInd as my boot manager, on a UEFI system.

Questions are:
1. I just mount $windowsESP as /boot and let rEFInd do its magic?
2. I do so BEFORE running genfstab, and pacstrap right?
3. Only partition on the arch drive should be /root , no need for another ESP?

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Re: [SOLVED] Dual booting Arch & W10 on different drives.

1. I just mount $windowsESP as /boot

Yes.

Why not try systemd-boot first? It is already included in the base group.

2. I do so BEFORE running genfstab, and pacstrap right?

You should mount the partitions before running `pacstrap` & `genfstab` [1] but do not attempt to install the bootmanager until after the system is in place.

3. Only partition on the arch drive should be /root , no need for another ESP?

Yes, that is the recommended approach.

[1] If you have GPT drives with only a single root partition and /boot mounted to the ESP then /etc/fstab is *not* needed unless special filesystem options are required.

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3l_Di4bl0

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Re: [SOLVED] Dual booting Arch & W10 on different drives.

Why not try systemd-boot first? It is already included in the base group.

Ended up using systemd-boot.

If you have GPT drives with only a single root partition and /boot mounted to the ESP then /etc/fstab is *not* needed unless special filesystem options are required.

Ended up using fstab.

Also, shameless plug to my other thread since Arch possibly made my microphone stop working on windows too.

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Re: [SOLVED] Dual booting Arch & W10 on different drives.

Please remember to mark your thread as [Solved] by editing your first post and prepending it to the title.

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