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I am currently trying to install Arch on top of windows on a ASUS laptop.
My current partition scheme without creating is as follows:
/dev/sda1 260M EFI
/dev/sda2 16MB Reserve
/dev/sda3 514G Microsoft Data
/dev/sda4 500 Windows recovery environment
I bricked my laptop 3 times in last two days attempting to understand and create MBR with MBR method on wiki creating only two additional partitions with SWAP and BOOT(that contains home ect)
Proposed scheme
/dev/sda5 10GB swap
/dev/sda6 500MB EFI partition
/dev/sda7 root partition
/dev/sda8 home partition, etc.
What is your suggestion for creating the rest of the partitions for a EFI setup? Do i need a secondary linux EFI partition or will everything be loaded to the /dev/sda1 partition(windows) to recognize the dual boot scenario?
Thank you!
EDIT: if anyone has any type of general suggestions or guides please share them.
I've attempted to seek help from friends and forums on dual booting and tried a couple in addition to reading arch wiki and every time i seem to brick my laptop.
I was recommended to use the EFI methodologies to perform this install and im getting desperate to get anything to work in dual boot mode for school / personal experimentation.
Last edited by cDavid (2019-09-08 22:06:23)
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Welcome to the arch linux forums cDavid. What do you mean by brick the laptop?
What bootloader was used during the previous attempts?
Two ESPs on the same device may well confuse the firmware.
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Thank you!
By bricked when launching the MBR through grub 2.04 and loading in the kernel manually, after installing drivers i wasn't able to launch linux.
I have restarted the install process by formatting and reinstalling windows, and then launching linux config through usb.
But and am trying to research a partition scheme for dual booting, my primary concern is this partition layout that i have mentioned above.
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Was the disk MBR when it just had Windows installed on it? I would have expected it to be GPT.
What is the output of `fdisk -l`. See the tip box from Pastebin_clients to post from the arch installation media to a pastebin.
Last edited by loqs (2019-09-09 00:01:19)
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I was using the MBR method because virtual machine booted in this method, when i tried to follow the process on my laptop i realized it wasn't functioning the same way.
Here is the output
https://gyazo.com/d1f9f960d18ce9a6be82fb5113b22d33
On laptop it is Disklabel type: gpt
Last edited by cDavid (2019-09-09 01:11:29)
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image converted by tesseract OCR
rootgarchiso / # fdisk -1
Disk /dev/sda: 931.%3 GiB 1000204386016 bytes, 19838281 sectors
Disk model: HGST HTS721010A9
Units: sectors of 1 @ 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: 83DA13FB-A227-49DE-80C1-6196B9FB27C2
Device Start End Sectors Size Type
/dev/sda1 2048 543527 532480 260M EFI System
/dev/sda2 534528 567295 32768 16M Microsoft reserved
/dev/sda3 567296 1133301759 1132734464 540.1G Microsoft basic data
/dev/sda4 1952501760 1953523711 1021952 499M Windows recovery environment
/dev/sda5 1133301760 1154273279 20971520 10G Linux Swap
/dev/sda6 1154273280 1952501759 798228480 380.6G Linux filesystem
Partition table entries are not in disk order.
Disk /dev/sdb: 29.26 GiB, 31406948352 bytes, 61341696 sectors
Disk model: Cruzer Blade
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: Ox42fcc081
Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/sdbl * 2048 61341695 61339648 29.36 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
Disk /dev/loop0s 502.41 MiB, 526807040 bytes, 1028920 sectors
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
root@archiso / #I directed you to use a pastebin to avoid posting an image of text
As the device is partitoned as GPT installing a bootloader in the MBR failed.
Last edited by loqs (2019-09-09 01:26:14)
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I oppologize for incorrect formatting.
fdisk -l | curl -F c=@- https://sprunge.us resulted in error: (35) openSSL SSL_connection: SSL_ERROR_SYSCALL in connection to sprunge.us:443.
Following the https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pa … le_layouts it seems like my partition that you posted above should be good to go in addition to creating a home directory
i'm going to attempt the install from the beginning once more.
Last edited by cDavid (2019-09-09 01:44:19)
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