So I finaly got my computer and now I have tried for 3 days to get it to run Manjaro. The issue is that I install Manjaro on:
1 Samsung 840 evo 250gb
/boot 500mb ext4
/swap 80gb swap
/root 160gb ext4
1 Samsung 840 evo 1tb
/home 1tb ext4
motherboard asus z97 deluxe
I turned off secure boot on the mobo.
I just cant get it to boot from the ssd. It just goes to the uefi.
A related problem could be that it dosent seem like the ssd partitioning works well. First off gparted shows all the Partitions with correct filesystem. but fdisk -l shows /boot as efi system and the rest as Microsoft basic data. So they dont say the same.
I have been in contact with Manjaro support for countless hours but they cant solve it. I have to little experience to say what could be wrong but, ehhh. thats about it. It just will not boot from the ssd.
Manjaro team has helpt me with:
-updating manjaro on the ssd
-trying to update grub without succsess
-and they have been debating if my system keeps mixing up the /boot partition and efi partition, since I only have one partition and gparted says one thing and fdisk another.
When you are partitioning the first partition should be a FAT32 partition about 512mb in size with the code EF00 and boot flag. This is where Grub will store the EFI/UEFI boot information. Also make sure you're installing through the terminal with the testing installer.
You know I want to install guest addition into manjaro, cause I installed it in virtual box to test, but I don't know how. The only guides I search is for fedora, ubuntu, and other popular linux distro and I don't know what to follow.
Firstly you partition scheme seems off. You won't need a swap partition, and 80 Gig for swap is a massive waste of space. If you think you'll actually use a swap partition, then 4 Gig is more than sufficient. Your root partition only really needs to be around 15-20 gig and that is if you plan on installing lots of programs, otherwise 10 gig will suffice.
Secondly, you mention "and the rest as Microsoft basic data," so are you trying to dual-boot with windows 8?
If you are, then there are some things to keep in mind. Turning off secure boot is only part of the process. You will also need to turn fast boot off, and allow UEFI to take a little longer than the 3 second default - 5 seconds is more reasonable. You will also need to ensure both legacy and EFI support are enabled so when you post the EFI shell it'll boot linux.
It's less hassle to use a seperate drive for dual booting windows/linux if you're not an experienced linux user. I would never personally recommend using Manjaro, but if you're keen to do so you could make life easier for yourself by using the manual partition tool during install which is a new addition with Manjaro 0.8.10.
Hi, thanks that really helped. no I´m not trying to dual boot or VB. its just that its strange that it shows up as Microsoft basic data when its clearly a Linux partition. Haven´t really solved that one yet. But i´m getting there. What solved the boot problem was as you said plus changing to MBR table.
Best practice is using GPT with an MBR in protective mode to allow for legacy and EFI. This also protects against some utilities like fdisk from reading GPT incorrectly and then warning of corrupt or overlapping blocks.
Using Gdisk is the easiest way to make partitions during an install, and the "o" command will make a fresh GUID partition table inside of Gdisk - then you would continue to partition as you like.
"Why not Manjaro?"
It's not really important, but personal opinions and politics which I won't go into, and I'm generally not too interested in Manjaro as a project. I may also be jaded as a long time (circa 2002) Arch user.
"I work with quite big pictures, 20gb and upwards."
Okies - remember to set your "tile-cache" to use your swap if using GIMP.
I did fdisk "o" "w" on the disks then made ext4 and swap partitions. That solved the booting process and the Microsoft data file thing on the boot ssd. Now I just have to get it working on my bigger ssd. Is this the solution you suggested?
I´ll start with Manjaro. Its first time on Linux so I try to learn it from there. Then I might go switch to an more advanced Distro.