I’ve racked my brain over this error before trying to figure out why EFI system wouldn’t boot). I am using EFI, so EF00 will be our hex code (NOT EF02. I’m going to create my boot partition first. ![]() Note: the order you create the partitions is the order they will be listed in, so if I create three partitions in order such as boot, swap, root, home on /dev/sda, then “lsblk” again, they will be listed as: Gdisk /dev/sdX (x representing your drive. ***PLEASE NOTE: THIS WILL WIPE THE ENTIRE DRIVE** I need to “zap” the current partition table so that I can re-write it as a GPT partition table These are known to the system as /dev/sda, /dev/sda1, /dev/sdb, /dev/sdb1 and so forth.įor me, /dev/sda is the drive I want to install linux on, which I will be wiping/deleting partitions from. Sdc – this is the usb stick im using to install arch Sdb 931.5GB- this is my 1tb storage drive This shows me all of the drives availabe. I need to find out which partitions I want to use, by typing: I wiped my current partitions to make a fresh install using the whole drive. If it spits out a list of stuff (uefi variables) then you are using UEFI mode.įirst I need to set up my partitions. Now test if we are using UEFI mode by typing: Ping -c 3 if you get a response, your internet is working properly. I will post a wifi connection sublink when I am able to make it, for now we are going to just use our LAN connection. I use a wired connection, so linux should auto-detect it. We select the first option that reads something like “Arch Linux archiso x86_64 UEFI USB”īefore we do anything, we need to confirm we have an internet connection, and that we are actually in EFI mode. Ok, so we have our USB stick, we plug it in. My boot device key is F11, and my BIOS access key is DEL. You will also need to plug in your new Arch USB stick, then reboot and either go in to your bios and set it as the first boot device, or use the hot key the motherboard specifies during booting to access the boot menu, then select the USB stick as the boot device from that menu. It will tell you how to enable it in the BIOS. If you are not sure if your computer is booted/can boot in UEFI/EFI mode, check your motherboard manual. You can find this withthe command: lsblk) Sudo dd bs=4M if=/path/to/archlinux.iso of=/dev/sdX status=progress & sync ***PART 1: Preparation and Disk Partitioning*** PART 3: Making it user friendly and adding a desktop environment Enabling multilib and Arch AUR community repositories Setting up our Arch repository mirrorlist PART 2: Installing Arch and Making it Boot Telling linux which file systems to use for our partition Creating root and home, the differences between them, and choosing whether to keep them on the same partition Creating swap partition, the swap debate, choosing a swap size, and the swap 8200 hex code Creating boot partition and the difference between EF00 and EF02 Hex codes Details regarding booting from USB in EFI mode ![]() Details regarding enabling EFI mode via BIOS ![]() PART 1: Preparation and Disk Partitioning
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