In my case, it is /boot (after arch-chroot). Follow the Wiki instruction, and please note that $esp refers to the mount point of the EFI system partition. I used GRUB instead of gummiboot, because I know nothing about gummiboot yet. Then, the GRUB installation took me some time. Get the internet connection using netctl. Then proceed pacstrap as usual, arch-chroot and do some configurations. Hence, I mounted /dev/sda3 to /mnt, /dev/sda5 to /mnt/home, and /dev/sda1 to /mnt/boot. In my case, it is /dev/sda1, and it is FAT32 format. At the same time, you can see which partition is the EFI system partition. This is done by using cgdisk instead of cfdisk, because MacBook is using GPT partition table. Next, we need to edit the partition type of the formatted partitions. In my case, I formatted /dev/sda3 and /dev/sda5 to ext4, and /dev/sda4 to swap. Firstly, format the 3 partitions created in Mac OS X to what you want. Then you will be shown a screen to choose booting into rEFIt or Arch Linux UEFI.Ĭhoose Arch Linux UEFI and boot into Arch Linux for installation. Insert the USB to MacBook, then reboot, and hold the Alt/Option key. Then, prepare a live USB for Arch Linux installation. Arch Linux installationįirstly, make sure you know how to install Arch Linux. That means, you have successfully installed rEFIt.

After installing rEFIt, reboot the MacBook then will show the options like this. Since MacBook Air uses EFI to boot, and I am new to UEFI boot, so I installed rEFIt (Mac disk image). These three partitions are formatted in FAT32. One for root, one for swap, and one for /home. In my case, I created three partitions at the end of the drive.

Make sure that you have enough disk space for the Arch Linux installation including the disk space for /home. Next, click the “Partition” tab at the right. Then select the drive, not partition, at the left-hand panel. The tool can be found in /Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility.app. MacBook Air preparationīefore installing, firstly do the partition using Mac OS X itself. Then, followed the instructions as much as possible, and do some trials and errors.

What I did was reading the Arch Linux Wiki page. So, it may not be 100% accurate, since I am a forgetful person. The following procedures are based on what I remembered. And it is very interesting when I did this, because I learnt new things. You can get some tutorials from Internet.

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