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#ARCH LINUX GRUB2 WINDOWS 10 UEFI INSTALL#
#ARCH LINUX GRUB2 WINDOWS 10 UEFI DRIVERS#
#ARCH LINUX GRUB2 WINDOWS 10 UEFI MANUAL#
#ARCH LINUX GRUB2 WINDOWS 10 UEFI SOFTWARE#

It is recommended to use GPT since some firmwares might not support UEFI/MBR booting due to it not being supported by Windows Setup.

Proceed to the #Format the partition section below.

GNU Parted: Create a partition with fat32 as the file system type and set the esp flag on it.Īfter creating the partition, it should be formatted with a file system.

gdisk: Create a partition with partition type EF00.

fdisk: Create a partition with partition type EFI System.If none of these are relevant issues, the partition size can be as small as 2 MiB, in which case in could house nothing more than a boot loader.ĮFI system partition on a GUID Partition Table is identified by the partition type GUID C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B.Ĭhoose one of the following methods to create an ESP for a GPT partitioned disk: For early and/or buggy UEFI implementations the size of at least 512 MiB might be needed. To prevent interoperability issues with other operating systems it is recommend to make it at least 300 MiB. The partition size should provide adequate space for storing boot loaders and other files required for booting.

#ARCH LINUX GRUB2 WINDOWS 10 UEFI SOFTWARE#

Warning: The EFI system partition must be a physical partition in the main partition table of the disk, not under LVM or software RAID etc. To confirm this is the ESP, mount it and check whether it contains a directory named EFI, if it does this is definitely the ESP.

The list of partitions on the disk: Look for the EFI system partition in the list, it is usually at least 100 MiB in size and has the type EFI System or EFI (FAT-12/16/32).

The disk's partition table: it indicates Disklabel type: gpt if the partition table is GPT or Disklabel type: dos if it is MBR.

To find out the disk partition scheme and the system partition, use fdisk as root on the disk you want to boot from: If you are installing Arch Linux on an UEFI-capable computer with an installed operating system, like Windows 10 for example, it is very likely that you already have an EFI system partition.

5.2 Firmware does not see the EFI directory.

4.2.5.1 Replacing the above mkinitcpio hook.

I tried installing GRUB at first cause I had used that for years but couldn't get it to work. The only thing i had to do to get arch back was live boot with an arch iso, arch-chroot in and use bootctl installĪnd I had the arch entry in the menu again. I had to reinstall windows 10 at some point and it erased the arch entry in the UEFI boot menu. I used the arch wiki page on systemd-boot. I don't really get uefi either, but after a few tries it works pretty well and seems easier than GRUB. I installed systemd-boot to the uefi partition. I also have an NTFS data partition I use on windows and linux. I mounted the Windows efi partition, which in my case is called sda2, the SSD, on /boot. I used btrfs for the root partition but it's almost the same as using an ext4 partition. I have a root / and swap partition on sdb, the HDD.

I followed the old begginer's installation wiki. I disabled SecureBoot cause windows works well without it and I've had problems installing ubuntu with SecureBoot on. windows 10 installed on an SSD and arch installed on a HDD. FAT (or HFS+ on Macs or ISO-9660 on some systems)."

#ARCH LINUX GRUB2 WINDOWS 10 UEFI DRIVERS#

Additionally rEFInd can use drivers from the UEFI firmware i.e. rEFInd has drivers for (quoting from the wiki): "rEFInd has read-only drivers for ReiserFS, Ext2, Ext4, Btrfs, ISO-9660, HFS+, and NTFS.

If your kernel isn't find there, you're SOL. It can only load EFI binaries from the EFI partition. NOTE: I would recommend NOT using gummiboot/systemd-boot. Tl dr: Use a single EFI partition (and put rEFInd in there, it is not large, much smaller than kernel/initramfs) and configure rEFInd to point to the correct place to boot Linux.

#ARCH LINUX GRUB2 WINDOWS 10 UEFI MANUAL#

If it doesn't auto-detect for whatever reason, there is manual configuration as well. You just want to double-check refind_nf to ensure it's pointed at the correct root drive (this is where you would need to change things to your 2nd hard drive.) rEFInd is designed to automatically search all your drives for your /boot partition and automatically configure itself. If you can't fit your kernel/initrd in there, no problem. I've seen the wiki recommend 512MB but I was able to squeeze rEDInd, kernel, intitrd, and the Windows stuff in 100MB with 36.8MB to spare. If you're installing from scratch you may want to expand this.

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IMO the best way to go is to install Windows first. I think most people here are over-complicating things.