Thursday, July 30, 2015

boot - Arch Linux UEFI bootable usb installation media

I want to install Arch Linux in UEFI mode, but I fail at booting the installation media in UEFI mode. What I have done so far is:




  • Create msdos partition table on usb key OR create gpt partition table on usb key

  • write the official iso to the usb key with dd bs=4M if=archlinux.iso of=/dev/sdX

  • reboot the system




When I try to select the dialog only shows me a BIOS/CSM entry to boot, which works perfectly. But there is option to boot in UEFI mode.



Aditionaly, when I try to view the partitions in gparted i get the message dev/sdd contains GPT signatures, indicating that it has a GPT table. However, it does not have a valid fake msdos partition table, as it should. Perhaps it was corrupted -- possibly by a program that doesn't understand GPT partition tables. Or perhaps you deleted the GPT table, and are now using an msdos partition table. Is this a GPT partition table? and when I click yes I get the message The backup GPT table is corrupt, but the primary appears OK, so that will be used.
Also there is only partition that is unallocted and has a warning sign, when I view the details I see the errors listed above.
What have I done wrong? Have I forgotten something?

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