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RobertCsordas authored May 4, 2020
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## How to install

If your EFI partition is mounted as /boot (as recommended in https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/EFI_system_partition) and your kernels are installed there, you can just run
### AUR

*Note: this method is only suited for systems with EFI partition mounted as /boot (as recommended in https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/EFI_system_partition) and with kernels installed there. For other setups, see [manual installation instructions](#manual-installation).*

Install the [AUR package](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/arch-efiboot/).

### Manual installation

[Download the repository](https://github.com/xdever/arch-efiboot/archive/master.zip) onto your system.

If your EFI partition is mounted as /boot and your kernels are installed there, run

```
sudo install.sh
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cp kernel-update.hook /etc/pacman.d/hooks
```

## EFI boot entries

When completed, you can use efibootmgr to setup the boot item, or your BIOS settings might have an option to chose the file from the ESP partition (as with Dell XPS 9560). It works either way.

## Custom command line parameters
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