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This is the first of a series of guides I am putting up in regards to getting Arch Linux installed (via EFI in this setup)Part 1: https://youtu.be/MMkST5IjSjYPart 2: https://youtu.be/0WBB8v-tiz8Part 3: https://youtu.be/n5UK66GF99ARufus: https://rufus.akeo.ie/Arch Linux ISO Download: https://www.archlinux.org/download/PART 1: Preparation and Disk PartitioningPreparation-Items necessary-Downloads necessary-Details regarding enabling EFI mode via BIOS-Details regarding booting from USB in EFI mode-Verifying internet connectivity-Verifying EFI mode is enabledDisk Partitioning-Finding all available drives-Wiping the existing partition table-Creating boot partition and the difference between EF00 and EF02 Hex codes-Creating swap partition, the swap debate, choosing a swap size, and the swap 8200 hex code-Creating root and home, the differences between them, and choosing whether to keep them on the same partition-Telling linux which file systems to use for our partitionFull Guide:http://gloriouseggroll.tv/?p=56

[ 2016-02-22 06:31:51Z ]👍 0

got super stoked that i found an Arch install guide in my sub box only to realise 5 minutes later that my 2015 released asus ux05 uses BIOS and not EFI. :(

[ 2016-02-23 06:40:03Z ] 👍 0

+GloriousEggroll I found out that my windows was installed in bios mode and thats why i initially thought my laptop supports bios and not efi and if i had installed arch in efi mode then switching from windows to arch would require me to change the boot option from the bios everytime so instead i just reinstalled windows in efi mode. can i follow this video to install arch alongside windows on the same drive or would i have to wipe windows?

[ 2016-02-22 18:41:17Z ] 👍 0

+Hova the guide is the exact same for BIOS just use EF02 as the hex code for the boot partition instead of EF00, and ignore the efi variable checking commands throughout the guide. I am unsure if you can use bootctl install for the bootloader, you may have to use grub.There is also the option of wiping windows ;)

[ 2016-02-22 10:30:56Z ] 👍 0

+GloriousEggroll someone on reddit told me that my machine supports UEFI mode however my windows is installed in BIOS mode that why its showing that this is the page for my laptop https://www.asus.com/us/Notebooks/ASUS-ZenBook-UX305FA/specifications/

[ 2016-02-22 08:13:06Z ] 👍 0

+Hova are you sure? whats the full model i bet it can boot uefi or has a bios update that includes uefi booting

[ 2016-02-22 06:49:33Z ] 👍 0

+Hova i followed the steps on this website http://kb.parallels.com/en/115815 to check and my laptop is using BIOS however, when i started the installation from the USB i ran "efivar -l" i got results back instead of an error. what does that mean

[ 2016-02-22 07:02:06Z ]👍 0

glad to see you're updating the guide, the 2015 one helped me through the tedious process of installing it , just a tip you should probably at least include a driver guide in the description for amd users on the 3rd part of the guide. had to go through some rough outdated guides to get working ones last time.

[ 2016-02-22 07:04:11Z ] 👍 0

commented a minute before you said about drivers in the 2nd part. anyways should take into consideration.

[ 2016-02-23 21:33:21Z ]👍 2

This is a great straightforward guide. You're awesome.

[ 2016-02-25 08:15:06Z ]👍 0

#wifi-menu (for temporary wifi )

[ 2016-02-27 04:54:05Z ]👍 0

Thanks for this very helpful series. I didn't catch which file system you used on the Swap - I assume it would also be the same as root and home (ext4 in your case) ?

[ 2016-02-27 19:42:38Z ] 👍 0

+GloriousEggroll Thank you!

[ 2016-02-27 06:35:20Z ] 👍 1

+Gregory W swap is swap not ext4. When creating the partition use hex code 8200 for swap, then: mkswap /dev/sda2 swapon /dev/sda2 that's all thats needed for swap.

[ 2016-02-27 21:15:57Z ]👍 0

What is the music in the background in the beginning of the video?

[ 2016-02-28 06:10:25Z ] 👍 0

+Hasan Ibraheem sorry I don't know, I had a twitch music channel open,dont remember if it was monstercat or nocopyrightsounds

[ 2016-03-04 04:46:23Z ]👍 0

i failed at installing arch before. will i need to completely wipe everything to try again? if so how?

[ 2016-03-13 20:56:58Z ]👍 0

Dear GloriousEggroll . . . you do not view or check for quality. You said you were going to enlarge the "text" because previous viewers asked you to do so. Your knowledge of the subject is not in question, but your respect for your viewers is. You must have noticed, eventually, that you had forgotten to enlarge the "text". So. Is there an other version of this Demo with ENLARGED TYPE?

[ 2016-03-13 21:52:36Z ] 👍 0

+Timothy Basaldua I apologize for the text not being any larger. I put the command prompt enlarged at the top of the screen so that it is easier to view commands, however when doing things such as cgdisk or bios configuring, this does not show. When booting from the Arch USB drive there is no way that I know of to enlarge the text. I did not forget to do it, as mentioned I tried to add the command prompt enlarged at the top of the screen (see top of screen @ 12:30)

[ 2016-03-26 18:36:25Z ]👍 0

thanks for sharing really appreciate it, will try again as last time i failed and gave up

[ 2016-03-26 18:40:07Z ]👍 0

what chair is that you have looks really kool, I want one lol

[ 2016-03-30 23:18:14Z ]👍 0

I can't even get into my UEFI because my keyboard doesn't get detected until Windows loads in ;_;

[ 2016-04-07 04:19:07Z ]👍 0

I get the error "ERROR: '/dev/disk/by-label/UUI' device did not show up after 30 seconds" Do you know how to fix this?

[ 2016-04-07 06:01:07Z ] 👍 0

yeah. you use the uuid it generated rather than copy pasting the line i gave. see the error? "/dev/disk/by-label/UUI" isnt an actual disk. you need your uuid for your root disk

[ 2016-04-09 16:24:55Z ]👍 0

but does anyone want to create a 32 bit uefi boot for atom chips? on tablet devices!!! that's a challenge if you want it! Recomend the hp stream7, its cheap and powerfull.

[ 2016-04-16 18:12:10Z ]👍 0

"From what I can tell (eg from the gdisk documentation), a future-proof GPT disk partitioning scheme needs two special partitions: a BIOS boot partition (gdisk code EF02) and an EFI System Partition (gdisk code EF00), probably with the ESP as the first partition on the disk. The BIOS boot partition is used to give the MBR bootloader somewhere that's guaranteed safe to store its second stage code; the EFI System Partition is where EFI bootloaders go (and where the BIOS will find them). I'm currently planning to make these 4 Mbytes and 256 MBytes respectively. This is probably overkill for both, especially since I don't plan to multiboot several OSes on my machine."

[ 2016-04-29 03:11:27Z ]👍 0

Just found your great videos! Subbed!

[ 2016-05-05 14:50:31Z ]👍 0

I can't seem to be able to distinguish sda4 partitions. Meaning sda4p1 doesn't exist.

[ 2016-07-23 22:14:58Z ] 👍 0

Yes but to then create sda4p1 and sda4p2

[ 2016-07-23 20:40:40Z ] 👍 0

sda4 is a partition. It is on drive sda, partition 4.

[ 2016-05-07 13:17:28Z ]👍 2

Why do you use swap on a SSD??? Swap is like killing the SSD...

[ 2017-10-19 13:27:21Z ] 👍 1

you always need swap

[ 2017-03-22 12:55:54Z ] 👍 2

You can set the swappiness very low so you'll mostly use it for hibernation. That is, if I can get hibernation working.

[ 2016-06-13 15:52:10Z ] 👍 1

+Abbie Hoffman you don't need a swap with 8 or more gigs of ram and you definitely don't want one with an ssd

[ 2016-05-31 20:48:20Z ] 👍 1

this is true

[ 2016-05-07 13:30:17Z ]👍 0

Great walkthrough though.

[ 2016-05-16 21:14:49Z ]👍 0

I am misunderstanding something from your blog. "Where ‘x’ is the device letter and ‘Y’ is the partition number for the root partition. In our case it was sda1 Write the id down that it spits out, you’ll have to type it in the next part. Now you will need to manually create a configuration file to add an entry for Arch Linux to the gummiboot manager:" Didnt you put your root device in sda3? Is this supposed to be boot instead of root or am I misunderstanding something?

[ 2016-06-06 20:48:38Z ]👍 0

Great tut.

[ 2016-06-07 10:27:38Z ]👍 0

I got error of EDD ( edd-off to disable?

[ 2016-06-14 06:41:24Z ]👍 1

Nobody runs Photoshop and play game on a linux and at same time :-) And no, you don't need swap neither on windows nor linux if you are running with 16gig ram, nor even with 8gig. I haven't used swap since 2004 or something like that :). 24 Gig of your precious 950 Pro space is definitely a waste of those expensive gigabytes.

[ 2018-06-20 01:17:02Z ] 👍 0

No swap is usefull you have 2 types of hibernation : the "light one" which will recover very fast because everything will stay on your ram but require, or a real hibernation where you computer is in nearly the same state as when it's shuted down (thus requiring less power than on the light hibernation) but with your current OS waiting for you on the HDD/SSD

[ 2016-08-25 04:00:37Z ] 👍 0

antonavy Nope. "Hibernation" file is not same as swap file at all. I don't know how Linux does hibernation, I never even thought of using it, but on Windows they are two physically different files. I don't use hibernate either, but since I turned it off both I am aware they are two different files (hiberfile.sys, pagefile.sys & alsw swap.sys on windows). System goes on and off in matter on seconds with an ssd, and it is also very good to conserve energy even without hibernation, so I don't really see use for it on a modern computer.

[ 2016-08-21 00:35:11Z ] 👍 0

But you still need some swap space in order to hibernate, right?

[ 2016-07-01 13:52:52Z ]👍 0

Hey! Why cant I setup my wifi? After I type "iw dev" nothing pops out, just empty.

[ 2016-07-08 07:42:26Z ]👍 0

Thanks man You acout actually explaned few things that I had troubles with. BUT YOU DONT NEED SWAP WITH 16 GB OF RAM I installing it on laptop with two gb. and I need it. Plus on windows I turnd off option that simular to swa (sorry forgot how it called...)

[ 2016-07-24 22:06:16Z ]👍 0

Why does your computer say press del to enter BIOS setup when it is using UEFI?

[ 2016-09-26 03:04:39Z ] 👍 0

I was thinking that they came up with a new deffinition of bios or something. Thanks for clarifying.

[ 2016-09-26 01:42:22Z ] 👍 0

Because programmers are occasionally stupid and inconsistent when writing on-screen messages.

[ 2016-07-31 05:25:16Z ]👍 1

Used your videos twice for installing arch, loved them! But I want to ask, why don't you use grub?

[ 2017-01-16 03:21:54Z ] 👍 1

fixed now thanks for the heads up

[ 2017-01-15 13:31:00Z ] 👍 0

GloriousEggroll Hey glorious eggroll your website is down with a 404 nginx error can you please fix it i use your guides evertime i install arch and they are very helpful to me..

[ 2016-08-14 06:23:00Z ] 👍 0

Oh. I didn't know how to replace the default kernel with custom kernel, such as luqiourix kernel.

[ 2016-08-14 04:07:22Z ] 👍 0

I simply found bootctl easier when i initially used it

[ 2016-08-14 01:14:29Z ]👍 0

I have installed the OS, configured it and now it is fully operational entirely due to your tutorial series !!! THANK YOUUUU!!!!

[ 2016-08-24 00:01:28Z ]👍 0

Thank you so much you are the only person who brought up the issue with 980 ti's the problem also exists with the 1080

[ 2016-08-30 00:13:42Z ]👍 0

NICE!

[ 2016-08-31 17:44:25Z ]👍 0

As an FYI, the new Nvidia 10x0 cards also need nomodeset

[ 2016-09-01 17:14:36Z ]👍 0

How do you capture your screen while it reboots? Is it a hardware screen capture device?

[ 2016-09-01 17:48:18Z ] 👍 0

I have a separate computer that is using a magewell usb 3.0 capture device

[ 2016-09-02 04:26:50Z ]👍 0

Does this work for a dual boot if you install on a separate hard drive?

[ 2016-09-06 17:21:28Z ]👍 0

My laptop doesn't have UEFI, so i should get rid of it? :(

[ 2017-01-31 20:13:09Z ] 👍 0

***** Nah man, they're both easy

[ 2016-09-07 03:23:44Z ]👍 0

Installation seemed to work for me. But got a bunch of usb errors when I tried to log in. I'm installing it on a PNY ssd using a usb stick.

[ 2016-09-18 16:04:10Z ]👍 0

When partitioning, I have the option of secure wipe for fresh install. Will this option work with a Samsung ssd?

[ 2016-10-04 02:19:54Z ]👍 0

What should I do if nothing pops up for the efivar -l?

[ 2017-01-15 13:31:47Z ] 👍 0

Brandon Pershall Then you dont have uefi enabled or you dont have uefi hardware..

[ 2016-10-19 11:06:26Z ]👍 1

Holy shit this was so helpful thank you!!

[ 2016-11-30 05:52:45Z ]👍 0

guide is giving a 404 error

[ 2016-12-02 04:20:01Z ] 👍 0

sorry the last 2-3 days ive been doing website migration to a new host. should be back up now

[ 2016-12-03 07:07:57Z ]👍 0

thank you

[ 2016-12-13 11:48:37Z ]👍 0

Hi, Thanks a lot about your really helpful Arch installation guide step by step. I'd like to send you a little arch installation document that I've created it. How can I send it to you?

[ 2016-12-15 15:13:03Z ]👍 0

Great tutorial and reference. Many thanks for a job well done.

[ 2017-02-04 20:38:00Z ]👍 0

When doing pacstrap -i /mnt base base-devel I get an error that the signature of 'Levente Polyak (antraxx) ' is unknown trust on packages 'krb5' and 'libpsl'... HALP!!

[ 2017-02-13 14:19:27Z ] 👍 0

nvm.

[ 2017-02-10 08:45:55Z ]👍 0

Awesome guide, one problem I had My partitions are all set up under sda So when I split one partition, all of those splits are under sda5 It worked fine until the end, when you formatted each part seperately. I simply couldn't do that If anyone knows how to partition a drive to show up as its own "drive" instead of as a child of sda, I'd be very grateful. I always thought the cpu saw partitions as seperate drives, but I guess theres some hierarchy involved.

[ 2017-02-18 19:50:19Z ]👍 0

nomodeset ftw you cured a severe headache ty!

[ 2017-03-01 12:50:37Z ]👍 0

best video about arch installation thanks

[ 2017-03-03 15:35:10Z ]👍 0

I'm installing arch in laptop so how to connect the Internet through wifi???

[ 2017-10-24 18:09:26Z ] 👍 0

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wireless_network_configuration After you get something when typing "iw dev interface link" ping google and if it isn't still working type "sudo dhcpcd"

[ 2017-03-17 06:27:18Z ] 👍 1

Sreerag ravi "wifi-menu" command

[ 2017-03-06 17:08:57Z ]👍 0

heating up your bathtub whater instead of use it from the warm whater faucet like linux but not arch..

[ 2017-03-26 11:04:11Z ]👍 0

I have 32GiB RAM, 48GiB of swap space seems like a waste. I guess i'll just set 8GiB swap and never use hibernation.

[ 2017-03-27 01:55:41Z ] 👍 0

this is again, something that also has been gone over in previous comments and will be edited in the next video.

[ 2017-03-26 11:11:44Z ]👍 0

Is there an important difference between "mkfs.vfat" and "mkfs.fat -F32"? I've seen both used when making a filesystem on the efi boot partition.

[ 2017-03-27 01:58:27Z ] 👍 1

vfat is an extension of fat32, either one can be used.

[ 2017-03-27 03:10:44Z ]👍 1

13:05 when I type lsblk (or fdisk -l) at this stage, only my USB drive information is shown, not my computer harddrive. Does anyone know why this might be the case? having a hard time finding any information about this particular problem anywhere.

[ 2017-03-27 03:55:35Z ] 👍 0

nevermind, found a solution. See here (may vary by laptop): https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dell_XPS_13_(9350)#SATA_controller

[ 2017-05-15 10:36:24Z ]👍 0

one thing that annoys me about this tutorial, the noises and sound effects you make. I'm not sure why all those sound effects are for? you seem to be a grown man acting like you're 5.

[ 2017-05-15 14:46:08Z ] 👍 2

http://imgur.com/a/GD0Zh brb inventing more sound effects.

[ 2017-06-12 04:13:34Z ]👍 4

hi, when are you going to do a 2017 efi install guide? would love to see it.. many things changed.. i think.. love your videos

[ 2017-06-26 22:18:17Z ]👍 0

Isn't 1GB a bit of an overkill? We're talking about a very expensive NVMe real state.

[ 2017-07-11 12:04:11Z ]👍 0

If "efivars -l" doesn't show anything, it could be because you didn't use RUFUS to burn usb to DD *instead of ISO*, select DD. Unebootin, UUI or YUMI do fail. You still do use the Arch Linux ISO-file, but burn it as DD on the USB. I hope this will safe you hours of your life.

[ 2017-07-11 12:04:48Z ] 👍 0

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/USB_flash_installation_media

[ 2017-07-19 05:44:57Z ]👍 0

I am creating partitions with cfdisk... I am having following partitions... boot(efi), root(ext4), home(ext4).. for what partition should I enable the bootable flag??

[ 2017-08-19 19:00:49Z ]👍 0

Is the 2017 version coming? installing xorg became impossible

[ 2017-08-19 19:21:12Z ] 👍 1

not much has changed really. xorg still installs fine with the exception of xorg-server-utils is now xorg-apps

[ 2017-08-20 00:39:52Z ]👍 0

love that Destiny shirt

[ 2017-10-19 13:31:22Z ]👍 0

why would anyone get ride of a motherboard if it works ? how old it is is irrelevant if you can find a use for it.

[ 2017-10-27 20:15:18Z ]👍 0

http://repo.archlinux.fr/$arch is 404 which one should I use now? edit: My bad :S Typed [archlinux] instead of [archlinuxfr]

[ 2017-10-27 20:27:16Z ] 👍 1

it's not going to show in a browser. $arch is a variable. it gets replaced when pacman runs. the url is valid. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/unofficial_user_repositories#archlinuxfr