Hello guys,
Finally I found my favorite distro. The Cinnamon Edition of Manjaro offers an amazing experience from the amateur to the most advanced user.
I have a BRAND NEW Lenovo Thinkpad E14 GEN2 with a Ryzen 7 processor. I want to completely DELETE the pre-installed windows, along with the awful grub entry that stays hidden on every install.
Before moving on with the installation I need to perform the following steps (according to the following article from rd.nz
- Run Lenovo Vantage and do a System Update.
- Update BIOS from support site (1.10 being the latest)
- Disable fast startup
- Turn off BitLocker encryption with *Start menu > Device Encryption > Turn Off
- Reboot and press F1 to enter the BIOS menu.
- Disable Secure Boot (though this step might be not necessary due to the newer kernel, that comes pre-installed with manjaro 5.10)
I am afraid not to break anything, so I would be grateful for any advice. Is this the proper method to install the manjaro on a system, that comes pre-installed with Windows?
Also during installation, what are the exact steps that I must perform so I might wipe out the entire windows installation?
I am a LInux User for several years now and I do not tend to return to Windows
Any help would be much appreciated!
Eddie.
Please, I apologize if I posted this on the wrong forum.
Thank you!
What exactly do you mean by saying “format everything”?
You mean that I must delete all partitions? This will leave unaffected the bios, isn’t it?
Yes, delete and format each single partition to end up with a hard disk with only unallocated.
It does not affect the bios, as the bios is not stored on your hard drive but on a ROM chip on your motherboard.
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Thank you!
Much appreciated~!
What about the option “Format Disc and Install Manjaro” from Calamares?
You suggest that it’s better to format the disc manually?
Thank you.
recheck all option in your UEFI ( for linux)
SecureBoot off
Fast Boot off
No CSM
No Legacy
all disks on AHCI
No optane/rst
boot only on UEFI:<partition 1> → EFI install manjaro
you can check in terminal , before install
inxi -Fxza
test -d /sys/firmware/efi && echo efi || echo bios
sudo efibootmgr -v
sudo parted -l
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Wow,
Thank you Stephane!
Excellent instructions!
Please,
Can you tell me some more regarding the last instruction?
boot only on UEFI:<partition 1> → EFI install manjaro
Thank you.
on usb iso there is 2 partitions
one for iso ( in MBR )
other is ESP for EFI
as you want to delete all windows ,
you have to format before in GPT
and create a /boot/efi in vfat ( fat32) size 33Mo to 100Mo
not forget to add on mountpoint flag boot & esp
if you need to format before install , there is Gparted
you need
/boot/efi ( fat32 ) 33Mo ( no windows ) , add flags ( boot, esp )
/ between 30Go to 50go
/home all the rest
Swap partition will be automatically added during the installation?
if you have more than 6Gb ( dont forget that you share video memory with ram) ,
no need
( there is an another way with systemd-swap and zram cant be done after)
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Zswap