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This is the second of a series of guides I am putting up in regards to getting Arch Linux installed (via EFI in this setup)(Edit: this is a video of me consistently pronouncing Arch as "ark" ;/) - thanks reddit.Part 1: https://youtu.be/W1PygRlo97UPart 2: https://youtu.be/joStuQmvHmEPart 3: https://youtu.be/PYEOjamNfYUPART 2: Installing Arch and Making it Boot-Mounting our partitions -Setting up our Arch repository mirrorlist-Installing the Arch base files-Generating an fstab file-Language-Time-Hostname-Enabling multilib and Arch AUR community repositories-Root password and user setup-Setting up sudoers-Adding bash-completion-Installing the bootloader-Creating the bootloader config file-Enabling microcode for Intel processorsFull Guide:http://gloriouseggroll.tv/?p=56

[ 2015-07-17 17:05:31Z ]👍 0

This is great. Thanks.

[ 2015-09-03 20:06:37Z ]👍 1

Had to comment on this, you are a life saver dude! Thank you for taking the time.

[ 2015-09-15 20:09:44Z ]👍 0

clear console/ not visible)

[ 2015-09-22 08:56:23Z ]👍 0

pacman -S gummiboot says this error: target not found: gummiboot plz help me

[ 2015-09-22 10:53:52Z ] 👍 0

+Giannis Gl thx dude i login as root and edit the /etc/sudoers files like u say I typed "Default" instead of "Defaults" i fixit thx again

[ 2015-09-22 10:28:38Z ] 👍 0

+Giannis Gl i think im sure how can i edit the /etc/sudoers again i cant use sudo

[ 2015-09-22 10:05:34Z ] 👍 0

Are you sure that you typed the script correctly?I think I had the same problem when I typed "Default" instead of "Defaults". If that's the case, I reedited the file, corrected the typo and then ctrl+o, ctrl+x

[ 2015-09-22 10:00:56Z ] 👍 0

+Giannis Gl okey its done but i have another problem right now if i try somethink with sudo it says sudo: parse error in /etc/sudoers near line 83 sudo: no valid sudoers sources found, quitting sudo: Policy extension does not start

[ 2015-09-22 09:41:00Z ] 👍 2

+HasanEmre Tonguç (h3T) type "bootctl install" and then follow the tutorial. If you do the check (cd /boo, ls), you'll see that your outcome is the same. I read that gummiboot has incorpotated in bootctl...

[ 2015-09-22 09:33:11Z ]👍 0

Hello, I've followed every step of the tutorial, and after I did the reboot in the last step, I was prompted to login (I guess this means that the installation was done correctly?) The problem is that when I give the user_name and password I get a message, "Login incorrect" On the other hand when I write "host_name login: root Password: the_password_I_defined_for_the_login_user" it seems that I can get in the following comes next "[root@host_name ~]# " What should I do to login as a user?

[ 2015-10-31 12:13:43Z ] 👍 0

+GloriousEggroll thank you very much!

[ 2015-10-30 17:34:17Z ] 👍 0

+Giannis Gl you need to create a user and assign a password to that user in order to log in as that user. useradd -m -g users -G wheel,storage,power -s /bin/bash someusername and set a pass for that user: passwd someusername

[ 2015-10-30 17:14:24Z ]👍 0

i have a problem when i run the rankmirrors line at 5:20 when it is supposed to take 5-10 minutes, mine doesnt work at all. what happens when i run the code is it finishes within 3 seconds then when i run the "pacstrap -i /mnt base base-devel" line it fails what should i do?

[ 2015-10-30 17:41:24Z ] 👍 0

+GloriousEggroll i connected to the internet and pinged google.com in the beginning but i guess after rebooting it disconnected from the wifi and i didnt think to reconnect to it, so i connected again and re-ran the rankmirrors code and i think its working. i will update this when it does thank you so much! edit: it worked

[ 2015-10-30 17:32:07Z ] 👍 0

+Hova first check your internet connection to make sure it is working: ping -c 3 google.com if you get a ping, double check that your server edits were done correctly by initiating a fresh list: cp /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.backup sed -i ‘s/^#Server/Server/’ /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.backup then try rankmirrors again: rankmirrors -n 6 /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.backup > /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist if this does not work, check the backup to see if any mirrors were uncommented. if not, you may have to manually uncomment a few in your country. nano /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.backup if you had to do this manually, copy your mirror list over again: cp /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.backup /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

[ 2015-11-07 15:26:22Z ]👍 0

So close. Got up until the bootloader where ARCH, the Wiki, and videos always fail me. I cannot install any bootloaders. Gummi is replaced by systemd-boot now, GRUB cant find 'airootfs' (which according to the wiki is in the .iso), and rEFInd "installs" but with errors, so it doesnt actually function. In addition, bootctl tells me that my EFI partition isnt an actual EFI partition. So either Arch isnt actually formatting sda1 to fat32, or cgdisk isnt actually flagging it as ef00. Its goddamn rediculous. What exactly am I doing wrong? I can install rEFInd on Manjaro just fine. But not on Arch. I'd bitch about it on the forums but I've got no idea what "What is the output of "date -u +%V$(uname)|sha256sum|sed 's/\W//g'"?" means.

[ 2016-01-30 03:51:33Z ] 👍 0

+GloriousEggroll -- This worked for me, thank you! :)

[ 2015-12-30 05:40:42Z ] 👍 1

+Purplepanda Express (Cubchooseyou) Still nothing, my apologies. Although for whatever reason, using Architect works just fine, even though its just a CLI window doing the same stuff

[ 2015-12-30 00:49:35Z ] 👍 0

+Oberlemonne did you ever figure out what was going on with that? I have the same problem. bootctl keeps telling me that it isn't and EFI partition.

[ 2015-11-09 21:49:34Z ] 👍 0

Thats what I did. Like I said, bootctl says that my EFI partition isnt actually an EFI partition, even after checking in cgdisk and formatting to fat32 again.

[ 2015-11-09 20:14:33Z ] 👍 1

+Oberlemonne answered earlier by Giannis GI, type "bootctl install" and follow the tutorial. "+HasanEmre Tonguç (h3T) type "bootctl install" and then follow the tutorial. If you do the check (cd /boo, ls), you'll see that your outcome is the same. I read that gummiboot has incorpotated in bootctl..."

[ 2015-11-08 19:06:38Z ]👍 3

Man, thank you so much for these videos. I've installed Arch successfully on several machines, but always with GRUB and MBR. This past week I've had the worst, buggiest time trying to get Arch installed on a UEFI laptop. Your video is the first place I've seen anyone mention the intel-ucode - it fixed my boot problems, and now I have a live system. Thanks for the great videos.

[ 2015-11-09 19:56:38Z ]👍 0

Hi there :) I just got to the point: mount -t efivarfs efivarfs /sys/firmware/efi/efivars and got the info that mount point (...) does not exist :( everything went good at to this point, what to do now? HELP :( plzzz

[ 2016-01-10 02:02:24Z ] 👍 1

+Shawn Carter Gummiboot was merged into systemd as systemd-boot (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Systemd-boot) so pacman won't find it. For gummiboot (systemd-boot) the 'bootctl install' is what installs the boot code, after that make the 'loader.conf' and the 'arch.conf' entry. The link above should have all that good stuff.

[ 2015-12-15 21:54:52Z ] 👍 0

+GloriousEggroll are you suggesting to restart the entire process or can there be a way to make that switch from in here? Edit - I decided to restart from the beginning, entering into my BIOS to insure that my settings are turned on to UEFI. Followed your every steps and get the same message. I proceeded to retrieving gummiboot error: target not found: gummiboot Moreover, I began to follow +Giannis GI answer with typing "bootctl install". Retyping pacman -S Gummiboot gets me nowhere. Any suggestions? Cheers

[ 2015-11-09 20:11:34Z ] 👍 0

+URann IEL either your system is not in EFI mode or you did not boot the ARCH install in EFI mode.

[ 2015-11-17 13:43:03Z ]👍 0

on #pacstrap -i /mnt base base-devel I'm having the following error https://scontent-gru1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xta1/t31.0-8/12247810_982894051768576_7589114738525382082_o.jpg

[ 2015-11-18 17:42:29Z ] 👍 0

+Heitor Hugo Leal I formatted it all and have done it again, and it is working, oh well, that's nice

[ 2015-12-26 23:47:15Z ]👍 0

When you are making symbolic link to /etc/localtime there should be no ">" in command I think

[ 2016-01-10 01:50:31Z ] 👍 0

+Daniel Hladík You are correct.

[ 2015-12-27 03:13:00Z ]👍 0

stuck at reboot failed to open file: initranfs-linux.img please help

[ 2016-01-12 07:08:22Z ] 👍 0

***** No, i weren't. And because i had to install an OS to that computer fast, I gave up and installed Linux Mint :(

[ 2015-12-30 10:06:00Z ] 👍 0

+dsniper02 Because it's initramfs-linux.img not initranfs-linux.img But i have a problem too: Error loading /boot/vmlinuz-linux

[ 2015-12-30 07:51:29Z ]👍 0

Holy shit it worked!! I thought the boot loader wasn't working, but I just had to mess with it through boot order on my bios. Thanks you so much.

[ 2016-01-27 14:34:37Z ]👍 0

Thank you very much!!!!!!!!!!

[ 2016-02-08 01:54:09Z ]👍 0

Wonderful job. I would have never even considered using systemd-boot (Gummi). I had a terrible time using GRUB on my previous install. Machine just boots so fast, with no errors. I don't think there's a better install guide out there.

[ 2016-03-07 01:13:20Z ]👍 0

After reboot I got an error: "error: loading vmlinuz-linux: Not found". I followed the tutorial line by line and everything went smooth. Only one thing was different - in the generated fstab I've got '/mnt' instead of '/' in /dev/sda3 (root) partitoin in the directory column. Please, can somebody help me fix this problem?

[ 2016-03-07 09:21:04Z ] 👍 0

+GloriousEggroll Thank you very much! Actually there were 2 errors. After I changed the fstab, I noticed the filename it couldn't find was not vmlinuz-linux but vnlinuz-linux, so I took a look at the actual file name and changed it to vmlinuz-linux in the /boot/loader/entries/arch.conf. I still have no idea what I did wrong about generating the fstab but it works now so thanks once again and have a nice day! :)

[ 2016-03-07 01:48:43Z ] 👍 1

+ProXicT I have an updated 2016 guide that has better instructions, but for now, here's how to fix your issue sounds like maybe you generated the fstab wrong somehow. root directory needs to be / not /mnt steps to correct: 1. Boot via USB mount your root directory: mount /dev/sda3 /mnt mount your home and boot directories which reside inside root: mount /dev/sda4 /mnt/home mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/boot chroot into your installation: arch-chroot /mnt edit fstab: sudo nano /etc/fstab check all partition directories in fstab are assigned as: / /boot /home ctrl+o to save, ctrl+x to exit, reboot