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DragonFlyBSD - UEFI dual boot with Linux

In order to install DragonFlyBSD on a UEFI machine one might want to keep the already installed operating system, in my case Arch Linux, leading to what people usually call dual boot. I won’t describe the DragonFlyBSD installation process, I might in a following article, but just what’s required before and what needs to be done after to get it to boot. Prerequisites So before installing I had a working Linux installation and I’m using the UEFI boot manager from my laptop (an HP Elitebook), to boot it.

Linux - UEFI boot manager configuration with encrypted root and swap

This article is more a memo to keep the details regarding the encrypted install of my Arch Linux distribution. I’m using systemd, sd-vconsole, sd-encrypt and sd-plymouth mkinitcpio hooks. This is important for what comes after. Now this is the layout of my SSD disk being identified as /dev/sda. lsblk -o NAME,UUID NAME UUID sda ├─sda1 7244-DD77 ├─sda2 ├─sda7 f92638e9-21ba-4ee2-82d1-3bfc2ac8f6e8 ├─sda8 b7c05834-a995-412f-bb0e-63069778d21a │ └─luks-b7c05834-a995-412f-bb0e-63069778d21a cd9d2579-f4dc-4aaa-878f-d54e9ea9bb83 └─sda9 44739df0-7605-45e1-ab30-eb2e7d4f00c8 └─luks-44739df0-7605-45e1-ab30-eb2e7d4f00c8 1aea47d1-1bb3-4a90-b1bc-e9354cca1417 /dev/sda1 is the efi partition /dev/sda7 is a partition I created for /boot, but I’m not using it anymore.