For anyone having errors installing grub, such as "cannot find drive", the solution for me was to create three partitions. The first set to BIOS BOOT, the second and third as described in the video (don't forget to change 1 to 2, and 2 to 3 when following the tutorial). Other than that, splendid tutorial thank you! I tried in the past and failed, this video finally did it :D
Thank you. I have been following your tutorials since months. Just today have I noticed that I have not subscribed. I have subscribed now. Hoping a lot of more useful videos from you. Thank you once again.
I'll say it again, you are easily one of the best on youtube. Great communicator and instructor. Your channel is gold for a new to Linux user like me. Thank you so much for all that you do!
Thanks again and this time it worked fine. I figured out that the problem with Github was because of a network repeater so after i reemoved it i could install and after the slash screen took a while to load but now I have a working system.
If you're using GPT partition table you must make an additional partition, needs to be the first partition and 1MB, you also need to change it's type to bios boot
HI!!! I'm very glad that I've found your channel! There are so many type of Arch installation on your page, what are the differences between them? Also I was on trying to install an encrypted permanent Arch Linux partition on a usb stick (if possible hidden when used as normal usb), leaving a partition to use it as a normal usb. I searched some guide but a lot of them are old... Thank you!
Hi! Thank you so much for your feedback! The guides I made a few months ago are quite basic, while the new ones are a little more complete. They are thought for different levels of user and the idea is when you get used to the basic one and feel comfortable with it, you can move on to a more complex one. I've never tried such an approach on a USB stick. I'll have to test this one out. Cheers :)
@@eflinux I've followed your tutorial and I've also managed to adjust it in order to dual boot Arch with an already existent Windows 10 installation: it has simply required some tweaking at GRUB installing stage :-) But I must say that I love your way to explain things step by step, and also I've appreciated very much the info about the reflector package, YAY, and also the DE part: you have managed to make it's installation a breeze!
Did everything as you, but after reboot, there was not GRUB menu. Instead, I see again root@archiso (same as before). Any tips? EDIT: Ofcourse, I did not remove .iso from Virtualbox, therefore it jumped back to the installation again. *facepalm*
Whenever I do the reflector command to check for mirrors I get the error they timed out after 5 seconds on every server. Please help But I guess I can just skip it... At least for now
I installed the Desktop environment and skipped libre office, and rebooted the system but it doesn't boot up in Desktop environment but again in terminal... ?!
Something that might useful: I did all the instructions in this video step by step, but grub menu didn’t come up after reboot. I don’t know what the issue was but it can be fixed by using parted: “parted /dev/vda set 1 boot on” and then updating fstab.
i follow all step by step and fail while booting, specially when grub-install ask foor boot paritition, so i recreate partition with frisk and allocate some swap for boot then i run grub-install and grub make config as your instructions after reboot no operating system found
That means that you didn’t create the boot partition correctly when still not in arch-chroot. You’ll have to go back and see what directory are present and how they are formatted.
I like your work. Thanks a lot. Could you please show a linux-rt btrfs jack2 snapper install for audio. In a style UNFA does in manjaro but from scratch.
Just wanted to search for a video about this topic and tell you about in another command and ask if you have something and just found this.. Haha what a coincidence
This is brilliant video, but I stumbled across a problem. I did exactly the process as you did (with obvious differences, like sda instead of vda, username and password etc) and when I come to the point where you enter "systemctl enable org.cups.cupsd", error came up stating that it does not exist, despite that I did type "cups" in the long parameter after pacman -S (13:36). Deciding that I'll sort out the cups issue afterwards, so I proceeded with the rest of your installation process, but when I type reboot, there is no grub menu, it's just showing a blank screen with a flashing cursor on top left corner. What went wrong?
So, as to cups, as it says in the description, the service name changed to cups, so you can enable that with systemctl enable --now cups. As for the laptop, it sounds like a graphics card issue. If you installed xf86-video-intel just remove it, if you have an intel card.
@@eflinux Thank you for the reply, it is greatly appreciated. I did not install xf86-video-intel as it was not mentioned anything of that kind in your video? If it was installed by default, how do I remove it?
Hi i want to ask i really want to install arch linux with my windows dual boot. My disk is mbr and bios is legacy . But when i goto bios menu it says uefi dual bios gigabyte so its legacy or uefi? Im realy confused i hope u answer thanks!
After rebooting to boot into my fresh Arch install with KDE Plasma and stuff my Laptop is stuck on cleaning my /dev/sda2 partition and I don't know what I did wrong during install. Before installing the DE and all that and only having a CLI everything still worked fine.
Ok, if you have the nvidia driver installed, try to add "nvidia" under the MODULES section in the /etc/mkinitcpio.conf file and then rerun the "mkinitcpio -p linux" command, then reboot.
how would anybody know how to do this without tutorials? which begs the question how did anyone learn it in order to create tutorials? the documentation is laughably poor. the arch documentation on setting up partitions is about as detailed as "create some partitions from the command prompt but be careful"
You can send me a mail. You find the address on my website. I need to know your partition table and how you formatted the partition. And also the exact grub command you run.
Please install Archlinux with SELinux (zfs-linux-hardened) wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/SELinux and ZFS on root wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ZFS and systemd-boot wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/systemd-boot
Because of you sir I can say "btw I use Arch". You are the best. Thank you.
Hey thanks for the feedback! So nice to hear that! Let me know how you like Arch!
yeah and btw thats my main reason to install arch
For anyone having errors installing grub, such as "cannot find drive", the solution for me was to create three partitions. The first set to BIOS BOOT, the second and third as described in the video (don't forget to change 1 to 2, and 2 to 3 when following the tutorial). Other than that, splendid tutorial thank you! I tried in the past and failed, this video finally did it :D
Probably the best Arch install tutorial on RUclips! You deserve waaaaaaaaaay more subs, great work! :)
Thanks! Very kind of you!
Thank you. I have been following your tutorials since months. Just today have I noticed that I have not subscribed. I have subscribed now. Hoping a lot of more useful videos from you. Thank you once again.
Your awesome! Thank you. After 3 different videos I actually got arch installed successfully with your video. So thank you.
Great! Glad it worked!
I'll say it again, you are easily one of the best on youtube. Great communicator and instructor. Your channel is gold for a new to Linux user like me.
Thank you so much for all that you do!
Thanks!!
I have my own tutorial for Arch Linux installation in my own channel, but for my installation I will follow this guide. Excellent work! Thank you.
Thanks for the feedback! Glad you liked it!
Thank you so much :D
This saved me SO MUCH PAIN
+High quality and comprehensive tutorial, would watch channel again
went along, now I have a Arch KDE System, very nice tutorial, thanks you so much
Excellent channel for Linux lovers!Please keep up the great work!
Thanks for the feedback! Will do!
I LOVE YOU MUCH HOLY S***. Thank's man you saved me a lot you don't even know.
I used this in May 2023 to install the latest Arch and it still works just fine 🙂
tysm i had it installed without any hiccups, ty so much!!!!
My pleasure!
excellent video brother, you truly make archlinux very easy to understand, thank you very much for sharing your knowledge
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you. I thought I would never be able to do it.
thank you, errmano, it is the first time i managed to install it
yeah thanks so much this is the first time im able to install arch
Thanks again and this time it worked fine. I figured out that the problem with Github was because of a network repeater so after i reemoved it i could install and after the slash screen took a while to load but now I have a working system.
Best tutorial for linux arch thank you
I love Arch , thankx!
If you're using GPT partition table you must make an additional partition, needs to be the first partition and 1MB, you also need to change it's type to bios boot
Thanks!
"this guy is awesome btw"
Thanks! Very nice of you :)
@@eflinux can I make home partition ? When I install arch linux mbr bios.
Yes, you can.
@@eflinux thanks 😊
Thanks for this tutorial!
HI!!! I'm very glad that I've found your channel! There are so many type of Arch installation on your page, what are the differences between them? Also I was on trying to install an encrypted permanent Arch Linux partition on a usb stick (if possible hidden when used as normal usb), leaving a partition to use it as a normal usb. I searched some guide but a lot of them are old... Thank you!
Hi! Thank you so much for your feedback! The guides I made a few months ago are quite basic, while the new ones are a little more complete. They are thought for different levels of user and the idea is when you get used to the basic one and feel comfortable with it, you can move on to a more complex one. I've never tried such an approach on a USB stick. I'll have to test this one out. Cheers :)
@@eflinux Thank you for answering so quickly! I'm going to watch all of them in these days while waiting your tests on the hidden usb one ^^
Cheers
Thanks! Hope you enjoy them! I'll need aittle time for testing that, I've a lot coming up the next week, but I'll get to it :)
@@eflinux No problem, it's seems even I would need a bit of time, you made so many interesting videos ;)
Thanks! Hope you enjoy them :)
Thank you very much Sir, you were a good help!
You're welcome!
Amazing video thankyou so much
Do another video gpt/bios. Thank you! Best videos about Arch Linux.
Will do! It is already on the list. Cheers :)
you explain things very well, stay so!
Thank you, will do my best! Ermanno
just fantastic!!!
Awesome tutorial thank you!!
Grazie Ermanno, sehr gut! :-)
Con piacere!
@@eflinux I've followed your tutorial and I've also managed to adjust it in order to dual boot Arch with an already existent Windows 10 installation: it has simply required some tweaking at GRUB installing stage :-)
But I must say that I love your way to explain things step by step, and also I've appreciated very much the info about the reflector package, YAY, and also the DE part: you have managed to make it's installation a breeze!
Thank you so much! Glad it helped!
Thank you. you made my day.
You're welcome
There will be a video for GPT/BIOS Arch Install?, there are little interesting differences ;)
Can do! Thanks for the suggestion! I'll add it to the list :)
For enabling cups, I got an error. Changed “org.cups.cupsd” to “cups” and issue resolved.
Thanks, I forgot to add this to this video. It's now in the video description.
In the step of mirrorlist it shows me error: no mirrors found the country I entered was India. Any solutions
Increase the number of hours.
Just for me: noto-fonts noto-fonts-emoji ttf-linux-libertine ttf-dejavu pulseaudio pulseaudio-bluetooth pulseaudio-equalizer pulseaudio-jack ttf-ubuntu-font-family grub networkmanager network-manager-applet wireless_tools wpa_supplicant dialog os-prober mtools dosfstools base-devel linux-headers bluez bluez-utils cups xdg-utils xdg-user-dirs
at 15:10 Update after 2021(right now 2022)
For enabling printers name has changed to cups again
So
systemctl enable cups should work
Did everything as you, but after reboot, there was not GRUB menu. Instead, I see again root@archiso (same as before). Any tips?
EDIT: Ofcourse, I did not remove .iso from Virtualbox, therefore it jumped back to the installation again. *facepalm*
No worries :)
Whenever I do the reflector command to check for mirrors I get the error they timed out after 5 seconds on every server. Please help
But I guess I can just skip it... At least for now
Since some months reflector is already included in the iso (it wasn't at the time of the video), so you can skip it.
@@eflinux Okay thank you
I installed the Desktop environment and skipped libre office, and rebooted the system but it doesn't boot up in Desktop environment but again in terminal...
?!
Did you enable the display manager?
@@eflinux i did everything what you did in this video, except last few steps, from Libre office to end
Graphics driver. What card do you have?
@@eflinux ATI Radeon
You might want to look here then: wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ATI
Something that might useful: I did all the instructions in this video step by step, but grub menu didn’t come up after reboot. I don’t know what the issue was but it can be fixed by using parted: “parted /dev/vda set 1 boot on” and then updating fstab.
Thanks, Cameron, for adding this. Some motherboards require the boot flag to start the bootloader, some not. It really depends on the model.
How can i update fstab? Any command please?
i follow all step by step and fail while booting, specially when grub-install ask foor boot paritition, so i recreate partition with frisk and allocate some swap for boot then i run grub-install and grub make config as your instructions after reboot no operating system found
That means that you didn’t create the boot partition correctly when still not in arch-chroot. You’ll have to go back and see what directory are present and how they are formatted.
I like your work. Thanks a lot. Could you please show a linux-rt btrfs jack2 snapper install for audio. In a style UNFA does in manjaro but from scratch.
Thanks Ilja! That is something I never tried, I'd have to have a look into it. Thanks for the suggestion!
@@eflinux I'm near Thurgau. Let's bring some elder apple hardware to music life again using arch.
What hardware you have?
I have unsupported nvidia card. what should I do?
You're best bet are drivers from the AUR.
Just wanted to search for a video about this topic and tell you about in another command and ask if you have something and just found this.. Haha what a coincidence
and hit enter, thank you
After finishing the install, at what point can I remove the USB? Before I do reboot or shortly after?
My computer with uefi arch decided to implode, didn't know how to do a bios install. Thanks
You are the best
Hey does this vid work for dual booting win 8.1 pro and arch linux?
This is brilliant video, but I stumbled across a problem. I did exactly the process as you did (with obvious differences, like sda instead of vda, username and password etc) and when I come to the point where you enter "systemctl enable org.cups.cupsd", error came up stating that it does not exist, despite that I did type "cups" in the long parameter after pacman -S (13:36). Deciding that I'll sort out the cups issue afterwards, so I proceeded with the rest of your installation process, but when I type reboot, there is no grub menu, it's just showing a blank screen with a flashing cursor on top left corner. What went wrong?
It did not come to the GRUB screen on a laptop, but the exact same installation on the PC, a GRUB did appear, so why was it not working on a laptop?
So, as to cups, as it says in the description, the service name changed to cups, so you can enable that with systemctl enable --now cups. As for the laptop, it sounds like a graphics card issue. If you installed xf86-video-intel just remove it, if you have an intel card.
@@eflinux Thank you for the reply, it is greatly appreciated. I did not install xf86-video-intel as it was not mentioned anything of that kind in your video? If it was installed by default, how do I remove it?
If it is there you can remove it with sudo pacman -R xf86-video-intel. Which GPU do you have btw?
What is rtkit-daemon in arch processes? Is it a rootkit?
It is the Realtime Policy and Watchdog Daemon. It is used usually by PulseAudio.
Well actually do you reply to everyone
Thanks BTW
I always try to :)
Thankies
Hi i want to ask i really want to install arch linux with my windows dual boot. My disk is mbr and bios is legacy . But when i goto bios menu it says uefi dual bios gigabyte so its legacy or uefi? Im realy confused i hope u answer thanks!
It sounds like you have a mix enabled. If you have a UEFI system, though, I'd go with UEFI.
@@eflinux also does your video dual boot arch and win 10 mbr legacy work for windows 8.1?
After rebooting to boot into my fresh Arch install with KDE Plasma and stuff my Laptop is stuck on cleaning my /dev/sda2 partition and I don't know what I did wrong during install.
Before installing the DE and all that and only having a CLI everything still worked fine.
Which GPU do you have?
@@eflinux Nvidia GeForce GT 525M
And I installed the nvidia and nvidia-utils packages
Ok, if you have the nvidia driver installed, try to add "nvidia" under the MODULES section in the /etc/mkinitcpio.conf file and then rerun the "mkinitcpio -p linux" command, then reboot.
@@eflinux So then I need to reboot into the installer and do it from there I guess... But thanks for your help so far I will try it out
Or hit ctrl+alt+f2 to open a new tty.
M'y terminal crashed at the end and m'y install is broke
🏆💎
Thanks
how would anybody know how to do this without tutorials? which begs the question how did anyone learn it in order to create tutorials? the documentation is laughably poor. the arch documentation on setting up partitions is about as detailed as "create some partitions from the command prompt but be careful"
I'm laughing at the 7 people that disliked because they didn't follow this correctly.
This video tutorial does not work on Bios with intel i5 on laptops.
What is not working exactly? I've tested it on several PC's with i5 and worked well.
@@eflinux I proceed as you did and we I rebooted I got the GRUB v 2.04 window
Usually when GRUB boots in recovery it means it was not installed properly or in the correct directory. Maybe I can help troubleshooting?
@@eflinux That would be great. what info do you need? We may use another medium so I can share a picture of the errors.
You can send me a mail. You find the address on my website. I need to know your partition table and how you formatted the partition. And also the exact grub command you run.
can you do a tutorial on archlinux32 please
Please make the commands you type available in text. Thanks
For this video, I am working on it. It will be available soon on the website :)
Done!
Please install Archlinux with SELinux (zfs-linux-hardened) wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/SELinux and ZFS on root wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ZFS and systemd-boot wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/systemd-boot
Hi Vasilii, this is on planning. SELinux and ZFS are big topics. I need to prepare them well before I can do a video, but it will come!
Why stop at 'pacman -Syyy' when you can do '-Syyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy'? :D
Thank you
You're welcome!