“EFI variables are not supported on this system”
I am attempting to install Arch linux to a new (and very crappy) HP Pavillion 15 Notebook.
I am attempting to install Arch linux to a new (and very crappy) HP Pavillion 15 Notebook.
All of the information I currently find on this matter is insufficient for my taste. It is either outdated, misleading or even wrong, seems overly complicated or not covering this specific question.
I recently bought a new Laptop:
Lenovo IdeaPad 320e
Intel i5 7200 2.5GHz processor
8Gb RAM
2Gb NVidia 940mx Graphics
1TB HDD
I’d like to install linux, but I don’t want to risk damaging my current windows installation as I have heard a lot of horror stories. Fortunately, I have an extra hard drive. Can I install linux onto that and then dual boot windows without having to modify the windows drive?
For background I have just built a new machine with modern hardware including:
I had a good running installation of Debian Jessie, but then I ran apt-get update && apt-get upgrade && apt-get dist-upgrade.
I’ve followed the classic procedure to install Windows and Linux in dual boot. First I installed Windows in UEFI mode, then I use a bootable PopOS key to resize the main Windows partition; I created a Linux partition as well as a 500MB /boot/efi partition in the remaining space.
We have bbb based custom board containing eMMC.
And we have created partitions as follows,
I know there have been quite a few similar questions, but they aren’t specific enough.
Terminology: ESP = my FAT32 EFI partition.