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Here is my current GPT/MBR partition table:
Current GPT partition table:
# Start LBA End LBA Type
1 40 409639 EFI System (FAT)
2 409640 663646255 Mac OS X HFS+
3 663646256 664915791 Mac OS X Boot
4 664915968 1164914687 Basic Data
5 1164914688 1169649663 Linux Swap
6 1169649664 1465149134 Unknown
Current MBR partition table:
# A Start LBA End LBA Type
1 1 409639 ee EFI Protective
2 409640 663646255 af Mac OS X HFS+
3 663646256 664915791 ab Mac OS X Boot
4 * 664915968 1164914687 07 NTFS/HPFS
The above is information I got from the 'Partition Inspector' on Mac OS X. Here is the situation:
Partition2: I have Mac OS X 10.7 installed Partition4: I have Windows 8 Release Preview installed Partition6: I have Arch installed (without boot loader)
I have rEFIt installed.
This is what I am able to do:
- Boot into Mac and Windows using rEFIt.
- Boot into the Arch setup on my USB drive and chroot into the installed system.
This is what I am not able to do:
- Boot into the installed Arch system and/or install a boot loader.
So what I basically need is to install a boot loader. I followed the instructions given in the Arch manual, but installing both grub-bios and grub-efi-x86_64 is not working.
Installing grub-bios gives an error 'Cannot identify filesystem on /dev/sda' and grub-efi-x86_64 gives an error saying 'Fatal: Couldn't open either sysfs or procfs directories for accessing EFI variables. Try 'modprobe efivars' as root'. I tried
mod probe efivars
, but it didn't help the situation. I get the above error when I run the command:grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot/efi --bootloader-id=arch_grub --recheck
My basic question is what options do I have to setup my triple boot.. since I am almost there.
PS Is it possible for me to simply boot from rEFIt? Like how I would do it from grub by specifying the root, kernel and initrd parameters?
Did you mount
/dev/sda1
as/boot/efi
before running thegrub-install
command? – nitro2k01 – 2014-01-26T02:09:40.400Please stop using rEFIt! Please use rEFInd. rEFIt is no longer supported, as of a long time ago. – pilona – 2014-06-14T21:42:15.300