Install Arch Linux 2014 in UEFI Mode (Dual Boot Windows 7/8/10)

[@NehalJWani]

Guys, as of 2019-10-06 it is required to install a kernel besides installing the base package. Replace the command: pacstrap /mnt base with: pacstrap /mnt base linux linux-firmware

[@rdunn727]

i wish I would have watched this 10 hours ago. Great job

[@joejett6234]

If you're getting an error with "grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg" saying "grub.cfg.new: No such file or directory" then it's not reading that there's a grub folder in the boot directory. Enter the command: mkdir /boot/grub Then try running the grub-mkconfig command again

[@youtube_puru]

Thanks

[@sebatianjach6171]

thank you!

[@manikandanm7327]

Thanks it's helped

[@aleksandarrajkovski2464]

I hit a problem at " mkfs.ext4 ..." it couldn't format, but after googling I fixed it with "partprobe -s" and then reboot.

[@NehalJWani]

Thank you for sharing this. :-)

[@KeNepO112x40]

Aleksandar Rajkovski Thanks mate

[@lior1146]

Thanks!!

[@ricardotk8961]

Worked for me thanks

[@Eptun]

Thanks for sharing this

[@J4Y1227]

Whenever I try to format the Linux filesystem partition (/dev/sda6), I get an error saying "The file /dev/sda6 does not exist and no size was specified." I have noticed that the mke2fs version I had was 1.42.12 instead of 1.42.11. I don't know if this may have had something to do with it.

[@J4Y1227]

J4Y1227 Now that I looked in the comments my problem was solved with partprobe -s. Thanks, Aleksandar Rajkovski

[@irumidesu9236]

I use the "reboot" command and it worked

[@keninkenap6181]

I DID IT!! IT TOOK ALMOST 3 DAYS FROM THE SCRATCH. Problem, Pressure, Tear Heart i can't believe i did it!! wow! Thank you so much you are really helpful for this.. i almost give up about this. Likes from me and Subscribe to You.. please share video more about ArchLinux. Problem, Troubleshooting, Error, Terminal... i'm sooo looking forward to it. thank you

[@NehalJWani]

Never give up.

[@joebalingit]

Please share what you have encountered, how you troubleshoot the problem during installation. Much appreciated!!!

[@RodrigoXavier-roxac]

Thank you, really, many thanks. I've been trying to install Arch in a dual boot alongside Windows in my laptop for about two weeks to no avail, I was almost quitting and using Arch only on my desktop until I stumbled upon your video, the only process which actually worked. Great job!

[@NehalJWani]

Glad to be of help! :-)

[@JohnDCarmack]

Good tutorial! I was extremely worried about getting this working, as I am used to legacy systems and I had LUKS running on LVM on my old system. It used syslinux instead of grub, so I went back and forth in my mind about which way to go. It wasn't clear that syslinux can then boot the Windows loader, however, so I followed your tutorial and google'd the grub entries. It worked like a champ! That's how you know it is a good tutorial!

[@NehalJWani]

Glad to be of help!

[@markthestark1]

For those using this guide there has been some trimming done to the base so it does not include linux kernel and firmware you have to install it additionally. This is useful for containers so they did it

[@ThomasBusby]

This is fantastic, still works perfectly in 2019, exactly what I was looking for.

[@NehalJWani]

Glad to be of help! :-)

[@7thAttempt]

Very good, thanks for taking the time to share this with us :)

[@pearlywhites3025]

So i followed this guide, but i couldnt mount the filesystem. i tried going back into windows, now i cant do anything

[@NehalJWani]

At which point you couldn't mount the file system?

[@pearlywhites3025]

mount /dev/sda9 (i had more partitions on windows)

[@NehalJWani]

What was the exact error? What trouble are you facing now?

[@pearlywhites3025]

ok so i did mkfs.ext4 -L /dev/sda9 and it said -L no such file or directory

[@NehalJWani]

You have to type partprobe -s /dev/sda

[@mohannadjooriah3282]

I can't express my gratitude!! Thank you very much... This tutorial saved me after 15 hours of working on migrating my arch linux to a new machine!

[@NehalJWani]

Glad that you found this video helpful!

[@ganjargingintahyudin9774]

@@NehalJWani this tutorial work for 2019 ?

[@NehalJWani]

@@ganjargingintahyudin9774 Give it try :)

[@josecordovacocom1557]

Hi, I am don't Hi, I am dont very good in english, I see that install blackarch it's very different to other distributions

[@StormHeflin]

Thank you for this tutorial. There aren't other tutorials for UEFI mobo users. Thank you for this.

[@NehalJWani]

Glad to be of help! :-)

[@PrimaDel]

i cri everytim

[@NehalJWani]

But why?

[@oliverhampton4858]

Dude, you are a lifesaver! After a few hiccups along the way (nvidia driver problems), i am now dual booting arch and win10 in UEFI mode. Thankyou!

[@NehalJWani]

Great!

[@janniksteinbach7402]

Great Video, Mate. I tried to Dualboot Windows and arch for a whole day and it didn't work. Watched your video once, got it first try. Worked in March of 2016 with Windows 10 and latest Arch! Good job :S

[@NehalJWani]

+Jannik S. Thanks for the feedback! :)

[@KetanKarambelkar]

I was trying to install it since last two days but no avail🙄. I was in desperate need of some tutorial specifically for UEFI and Dual booting computers. Kudos to you.

[@NehalJWani]

Glad to be of help! :-)

[@felipegiacomelli]

Thank you, this is without doubt the best arch linux installation tutorial on youtube.

[@NehalJWani]

Felipe Giacomelli Glad to be of help :-)

[@rouis8930]

I did this 3 Months ago, I installed KDE plasma instead of gnome, there are no problems at all. Just remember to disable windows fast boot forvever to keep the windows partition unmounted when linux is running. thank you for the great video.

[@NehalJWani]

I usually make sure that I mount the Windows Partitions in read only mode.

[@jaiminvarsani3852]

Yo Nehal a big thumbs up to you bro!!!!!!! I successfully installed arch Linux thanks again

[@NehalJWani]

+jaimin varsani :)

[@hexordiac38]

+ Rep for being incredibly helpful always even now. Directly messaged and was assisted. Awesome video too.

[@GProf0x06]

Really great video and verry straightforward, it's a bit hard to find simple and efficient explanations for this specific case, thank you !

[@NehalJWani]

:-)

[@tram90]

Very good job! Comes handy to me when soon install Win7 + Arch in a new UEFI based rig. Thanks for your efforts

[@GuthixGen]

at 8:59 if you run into an issue when setting the timezone that says: ln: failed to create symbolic link '/etc/localtime': File exists refer to this: wiki.archlinux.org/index.php?title=Installation_guide&diff=468000&oldid=467958

[@youtube_puru]

Thanks

[@MIbra96]

Awesome video thank you! I have one question though: Why do you have 20GB free space when setting up linux although before that you generated 17.21GB through shrinkage of (C:)?

[@NehalJWani]

Wow, you are a close observer! It's been ~2 years since this video. I probably made multiple and joined them. Didn't notice this small detail :-) Kudos!

[@VillageIdiot24]

Thanks so much! The text description you included was extremely useful - finally got my dual boot up and running

[@NehalJWani]

Yay!!! :-)

[@emilioheringer]

Its 2019. I found this video in 2015. Still the only way that works for my notebook

[@NehalJWani]

Thank you! I am glad my video is still helpful.

[@hellokitty-k9z6d]

Do you boot in uefi oprom or just uefi mode?? Whatever I do, grub doesn't show windows.

[@NehalJWani]

UEFI mode. Share output for gdisk -l /dev/sda

[@potatoemaster66]

Quick question: why did you install the base packages before mounting the boot partition?

[@NehalJWani]

Quick Answer: No specific reason :)

[@__-wv1my]

I know this is an old video but- When you run [# grub-install /dev/sda] are you overwriting the existing Windows bootloader or does it install alongside it? I'm worried of ruining my Win10 bootloader.

[@NehalJWani]

Alongside.

[@NehalJWani]

Assuming you are installing in UEFI mode.

[@__-wv1my]

@@NehalJWani Thank you so much! I feel much better about fixing it now.

[@skooglelee7550]

I install 'os-prober' and then when I do 'grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg' it doesn't pick up the Windows partition. I'm literally stuck at the last step and it's been days. www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/ci6852/osprober_and_grub_not_picking_up_windows/ Can you please tell me what I am doing wrong? My brand new laptop has been in a limbo for days ...

[@I-did-not-ask-for-a-handle]

At 10:51 Grub install will not proceed because the GPT partition label contains no BIOS Boot Partition. Do I have to switch to UEFI, or add a Boot partition?

[@NehalJWani]

Switch to UEFI. It works best with GPT partition layouts. Otherwise you have to create a partition with bios_grub label. That's hassle.

[@torrentinocom]

Man, you are the best!!!!Thank you so much!!! it works!! I nstalled arch and win7x64 in uefi mode on ssd in gpt. Great. It works at 2019!

[@NehalJWani]

Thanks! Glad to be of assistance :-)

[@padawanphysicist]

Very nice, thanks for sharing this tutorial! No problems with my installation =)

[@vonvision]

How did you recorded your monitor? I understand recording in Windows and Linux desktop but how did you recorded linux TTY? Have you used some sort of hardware? And thank you very much for your video, helped me so much :D Have a nice day, Mike VonFlynee from VonVision

[@NehalJWani]

+VonVision Studios I'm glad you asked! There is no trade secret. It's just that I did all of this inside a virtual machine (spawned using qemu), and on the host machine, I was capturing the display using ffmpeg -x11grab :) [All of my videos are recorded in this fashion!]

[@vonvision]

+Nehal J Wani Thanks for your answer. Would you recomend using qemu to virtualize ? Is it as fast and easy to use as Virtualbox or VMware Workstation?

[@NehalJWani]

If you use qemu with KVM acceleration, then yes, it's fast.

[@shusilbanjade4150]

I have problem with this step (x) Find and mount the efi partition to /mnt/boot/efi mkdir -p /mnt/boot/efi #Type gdisk -l to figure out the partition number of the existing EFI partition. In my case, it is 2. mount /dev/sda2 /mnt/boot/efi There is no EFI system partition in my pc although i have installed 8.1 on the other side . What can I do from here ? Please help.

[@NehalJWani]

+Shusil Banjade This video is meant only for installations in UEFI mode. If your Windows is not installed in UEFI mode, then I would recommend you to install Arch Linux in Legacy Mode. To do that, make sure you boot the Arch Linux installation media in Legacy Mode and skip all the EFI related things that I do in the video. That is, you don't need to mount any efi partition.

[@hashemalhamed5266]

Hi Nehal ,it's a great work . I don't have a network cable, how can I access wifi connection to complete the installation.

[@NehalJWani]

Hi, that's one of the things that I regret not putting in as part of the video. Read this wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/beginners'_guide#Connect_to_the_Internet

[@kohfee9967]

I successfully dual boot my windows 10 and thank you. But I used KDE environment. Thank you very much again.

[@NehalJWani]

Glad to be of help! :-)

[@bentodd2535]

Hello sir. Can you please explain how I can install arch on my 2nd hard drive? So I have windows 10 on my ssd and i want to install arch on my 2tb hdd. I want to keep them as separate as possible. I also have stuff that I want to keep on the 2nd hard drive, like my important projects. Thank you in advance.

[@NehalJWani]

Hi Ben, You can still follow the video, but you will need to perform all filesystem operations on the other disk. Look at the output of: fdisk -l and you'll notice two disks. If I had to guess, one will be /dev/sda and other will be /dev/sdb. You can create the partitions on /dev/sdb. But make sure that you mount the already existing EFI partition from /dev/sda on /boot/efi

[@bentodd2535]

@@NehalJWani do I mount /dev/sda or /dev/sda2. 2 is my efi partition

[@bentodd2535]

@@NehalJWani also when you do grub-install /dev/sda which hard drive should i run that on? my windows 10 drive or my arch drive?

[@NehalJWani]

@@bentodd2535 The hard drive on which the EFI partition exists. My guess would be /dev/sda

[@bentodd2535]

@@NehalJWani I have a m.2 ssd so it has a weird name. But same idea

[@joesadaka2534]

Hey when i am in the stage to mount efi drive i do not already have one like you do. I just have two called "microsoft basic data" did you create the efi drive ?

[@NehalJWani]

No, in that case you need to skip the EFI stuff shown in the video.

[@joesadaka2534]

Nehal J Wani hey thanks for the reply! By now i already just formatted the whole drive and just single boot arch :-),

[@TheLazyKey]

Thank you! I was having trouble setting up GRUB, and this helped solve my issue!

[@NehalJWani]

Glad to be of help! :-)

[@akashthomas7092]

great guide really helped me wish i had found it two days ago thanks man

[@NehalJWani]

I'm glad you found it useful. :-)

[@MarkAnthony5150]

Wow excellent job my friend!!!! Very impressive indeed thank you....

[@NehalJWani]

Glad to be of assistance! :)

[@MarkAnthony5150]

@@NehalJWani seriously thank you.... Just what I was looking for..

[@VictorRomeroVialrogo]

Man, you are asome!!! Thank you very much!! It resolve my dual boot problem :)

[@NehalJWani]

Glad to be of help! :-)

[@josue2es]

Hello, great video, I got stuck when trying to install grub into HHD: grub-install /dev/sda Installing for i386-pc platform. grub-install: warning: this GPT partition label contains no BIOS Boot Partition; embedding won't be possible. grub-install: warning: Embedding is not possible. GRUB can only be installed in this setup by using blocklists. However, blocklists are UNRELIABLE and their use is discouraged.. grub-install: error: will not proceed with blocklists. Can you please guide me? Thank you!!!

[@NehalJWani]

Hey, this happens when you boot in Legacy mode and try to install Linux on a HDD with GPT partition table. There are two possible ways to fix this. (i) Boot in UEFI mode and repeat the steps in the video. OR (ii) Create a small 2MB partition using gdisk, of type code EF02 and then ignore anything related to EFI in the video.

[@josue2es]

Hello, Did the recommendation i, everything working now, thank you very much for your help!!!

[@NehalJWani]

Glad to be of help!

[@janakiraman1252001]

I'm facing similar issues in HP Elitebook. I boot in UEFI mode, but I still have only two partitions in sda (one for boot and one for windows). I'm not sure how to install ignoring UEFI. Can you be more specific? For example, do I just create /mnt/bott directory and which sda partition needs what needs to be mounted into /mnt/boot ? Do I just ignore efibootmgr in installing grub? Your help will be of real great help.

[@NehalJWani]

janakiraman1252001​ Please boot into windows, open disk management, take a screenshot, upload it on picpaste.com and share the link here.

[@0xP4C0]

Thanks! Your video has been very helpful for me although installing and enabling gdm without installing the x server made my system "unbotable". Nothing serious, just Alt+F4 and "systemctl disable gdm" and all working.

[@ananthpreetham1797]

if the usb is partitioned with gpt partition scheme do i have to use syslinux instead of grub. If so how would this: (pacman -Syu grub efibootmgr grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg grub-install /dev/sda) change for me?

[@NehalJWani]

I am curious as to why you would ask this question. Even if your USB is partitioned with gpt, you can use grub and the commands won't change. What difficulty are you facing?

[@ananthpreetham1797]

oh thanks. I was just planning it out before starting.

[@jpatel1325]

nehal j wani sir i have install the arch. according to you process but when i reboot the laptop the no grub loader is showing

[@jpatel1325]

please help me

[@lia_jacob]

Jay Patel got the same issue

[@NehalJWani]

What is your computer make/model/manufacturer?

[@jpatel1325]

hp au113tx

[@jpatel1325]

hp manufacturer and model au113tx and make in sep 2016

[@shruikan123456789]

Hey, the situation is the following: I i m currently dualbooting W10 and Mint on a UEFI system. Now I want to delete the Mint partition and use that partition to install Arch on it and dualboot it. Do I just have to format the Mint partition and then proceed with the guide here? What about grub? Will grub create an issue, because it s suddenly missing the Mint OS? Should I just install grub like in the video? Thank you very much.

[@NehalJWani]

+shruikan123456789 You can follow this: kzbin.info/www/bejne/sKqyc3lomrWpfrs and then follow the video.

[@shruikan123456789]

+Nehal J Wani super fast answer, thank you very much! Hope you have a nice day.

[@NehalJWani]

You have a nice day too! :)

[@DavidCyrus]

How did you record your screen OS-agnostic?

[@NehalJWani]

***** This video was made in a Virtual Environment and the recording was done using ffmpeg.

[@coolatul2005]

Very good Tutorial. Few things missing bur overall one of the best. Even though i am still not able to start Gnome desktop but i am happy to work from command line too.

[@NehalJWani]

Please mention the missing stuff so that I can add it in the next version of the video. If you have multiple DEs installed, then you might have to setup one of then to start by default. For GNOME you can just type startx. I guess

[@coolatul2005]

Nehal J Wani i tried using startx but it failed with many erorrs...let me install and run it completely and then will share in detail with you what has been missing.

[@GHETTORADE_Music]

Best tutorial so far, big up!

[@NehalJWani]

Thanks for the compliment! ;-)

[@Zimba9810]

so di u shrink the main drive to make unpartition space for the new OS which bypass the UEFI? cuz i dont really see what u did in the bios setting to bypass all that UEFI crap or the bitlocker thing that kicks in if you dont boot from the normally. thanks

[@NehalJWani]

I turn off secure boot in BIOS settings. Also, I don't go past the UEFI crap. I use it :)

[@NehalJWani]

As I have shown in the video, I do shrink the existing partition to make some new space.

[@kshitijvengurlekar1192]

Hey I need help! Its not regarding this video tbh! I accidently installed Linuxmint using the 'Install Alongside Windows' Option, I have UEFI BIOS, It worked fine for few hours. Now when I choose that OS after pressing F9, It is stuck at GRUB screen. I booted windows and am not able to see any partition in which LinuxMint is installed but there is a EFI Entry. So now how and from where am I supposed to delete those files of Linuxmint? First of all how am I supposed to figure out where has Linuxmint been installed? Please help!

[@NehalJWani]

Please boot into Windows, open disk management, take a screenshot, upload it on picpaste.com and share the link here.

[@Aqxea]

Thank you. This was very helpful. I installed MDM display manager instead gnome and it didn't auto configure. Couldn't find much info online on how it needed to be configured if done manually. Everything I read said to run the GUI setup. Hard to do if I don't have a GUI yet. hehe

[@mcddennisk]

Hey! thank you so much for the video. I've been trying to install arch linux but when I reboot I don't get taken to the grub dual boot thing. Instead I go straight to windows. Any ideas why?

[@NehalJWani]

What is the make/model of your computer? Have you disabled fast startup/shutdown in Windows?

[@mcddennisk]

Thanks for your reply, I accidentally uninstalled windows and arch worked, I no longer need your help. :D

[@leoeocavaco]

Great Tutorial Nehal! I had a problem, all works but if I enter in the Windows, I can not anymore have acess to the grub! And the windows is the only acess that I have. Would you help me?

[@NehalJWani]

+Leonardo Gama Please disable fast startup in Windows. :)

[@leoeocavaco]

+Nehal J Wani I did that but doesn't work... I did that at BIOS, is it right?

[@NehalJWani]

+Leonardo Gama At BIOS, and inside Windows too! www.tenforums.com/tutorials/4189-fast-startup-turn-off-windows-10-a.html

[@NehalJWani]

+Leonardo Gama Also make sure you have turned off secure boot in BIOS settings.

[@leoeocavaco]

+Nehal J Wani I did both but doesn't work :(

[@keninkenap6181]

which better ArchLinux or Ubuntu? how does it feel to use Arch?

[@gauravkhadse252]

Hi Nehal, NEED HELP! I was following your video and was trying to install Arch Linux but unfortunately didn't pay attention to the "+2GB" while creating swap. So I aborted the process and tried to load windows 7. I though that - from windows, I would be able to delete the swap partition and try again, fresh. But windows didn't load saying "No active partition". I tried the ubuntu live (pendrive boot) in trial mode; and using gdisk, tried to convert GPT into MBR. But again getting the same error. "No active partition". I also tried some lilo installation and get back to MBR to detect the boot. The windows 7 is important for me since I have a few important data files in C drive. I have taken backup of most of the data but forgot to backup my CadSoft Eagle files. What should I do to get back to windows again? I am infatuated by your video and want to try Arch again. But, I don't want to lose windows either. I am an embedded developer and want windows for some specific softwares, for which linux support is not available. My email id: [e-mail] Thank you for your time. Expecting a reply at your earliest convenience.

[@gauravkhadse252]

[RESOLVED] Thanks a lot Nehal for the help.

[@tzaicevas]

Why didnt you create the partitions for both root (binaries) and home directory seperately?

[@NehalJWani]

That's not mandatory.

[@tzaicevas]

Thanks for an answer! Btw, am I still okay, if I use "-U" flag on genfstab? (you did use only -p)

[@NehalJWani]

I would recommend creating a separate partition for /home. I just didn't do it in the video because I wanted to show the minimal steps. There are multiple ways for writing fstab. One can have mapping made up of UUIDs or Labels, or Partitons directly. The -U option specifies UUIDs.

[@xenehuman3703]

Hey there! A little help needed...while installig arch after creating swap partition i created partition for linux file system but when i tried to format the partition with mks.ext4 -L"" /dev/sda9 its saying unkown partition or size...but when i run gdisk -l /dev/sda i can see that partition number i have followed through this video only..pls help me

[@NehalJWani]

Type partprobe -s /dev/sda and then type the mkfs command.

[@joejett6234]

You'll need to reboot your computer

[@federicocapaldo757]

If I leave the new partition (after shrinking) unallocated, my usb with Arch won't even display it in the list of fdisk or gdisk. any idea on why is that?

[@NehalJWani]

Because unallocated space is not a partition.

[@mathstylish]

I have the following problem: I formatted my hard drive and converted it to GPT, I activated the UEFI support on bios, I reinstalled the UEFI windows 7,normally, so I am trying to install Arch, but when I get to the bootloader part it returns me the following message : "Failed to create EFI boot variable entry: No space left on device" or "Could not prepare boot variable: no space left on device" . My laptop is Samsung RV411, ad6BR HELP ME PLEASE! :c

[@NehalJWani]

Looks like the free space on the EFI partition is very less. Please share output for: gdisk -l /dev/sda df -h

[@arekkrezel2082]

Hi, i am installing without EFI partition,i left all things about EFI in your movie but should i install pacman -Syu grub efibootmgr i this case or any other version of bootloader?

[@NehalJWani]

You can continue from the portion where I install grub.

[@arekkrezel2082]

Nehal J Wani But when i follow installing grub and after typing "grub-install /dev/sda" it says there is no efi partition

[@NehalJWani]

Arek Krężel If you want to dual boot with Windows, first find out if your Windows is installed in UEFI mode or Legacy Mode. If it is UEFI, then install Arch Linux in UEFI mode. If it Windows is installed in Legacy Mode, then install ArchLinux in Legacy mode. Right now, it looks as if you have booted ArchLinux installation medium in UEFI mode, so it is trying to install ArchLinux in UEFI mode. Hence it is asking for the EFI partition. If you want to install ArchLinux in Legacy mode, then turn off UEFI in your BIOS settings and then boot the installation media.

[@Schreddermann]

Do you know any way (that works with EFI) to use the Windows Boot Manager as the first bootloader so that WBM chainloads grub if I select Arch Linux instead of the other way round?

[@NehalJWani]

Schreddermann What is so fascinating about a boot loader? You can always change the boot order in grub. So that Windows is the default entry which boots up.

[@Schreddermann]

I just find the windows boot manager prettier ;)

[@NehalJWani]

Schreddermann You may also wanna try: www.rodsbooks.com/refind/

[@Schreddermann]

Nehal J Wani I tried to install refind instead of grub or do I need both? anyway its not working for either of them. I can't select another Boot Manager. Windows always starts, can't even select the linux one in the Boot Menu Any idea why neither refind nor grub are showing up no matter how I install them? I tried moving the refind_x64.efi to bootx64.efi but that didnt work either

[@NehalJWani]

Schreddermann What is the make/model of your computer? Did you follow what I showed you in the video? (I don't have experience with rEFInd)

[@point11p]

I don't have a EFI partition (dev/sda2 in your video) so I can't mount this. What should I do?

[@NehalJWani]

Then you have to install the OS in legacy mode. I haven't made a video for that yet, maybe someday I will.

[@point11p]

i managed to get it working, thx

[@point11p]

Farooque Khan I think i just skipped this step (if i remember correctly)

[@NehalJWani]

Yes, you need to basically skip the step where I mount the EFI partition and rest of the steps are mostly same, except you don't have to install efibootmgr.

[@yiannisgl9912]

hello, when I try to generate the efi partition, it seems as if it can't be created. I use the # mkdir -p /mnt/boot/efi command, but when I do the check gdisk -l /dev/sda has been created :/

[@NehalJWani]

+Giannis Gl mkdir only creates a directory. You can use gdisk to create a 200MB EFI parition and format it with FAT32 filesystem.

[@yiannisgl9912]

+Nehal J Wani Thank you so much!! You are amazing on what you are doing, like really... This what I did (just for future reference): # gdisk /dev/sda # Size in sectors ... : 200MiB # Hex code ...: EF00 For the format part, # mkfs.fat -F32 /dev/sda(number)of_EFI_sda)

[@NehalJWani]

+Giannis Gl I hope you have been successful in installing Arch Now.

[@shruhith]

Wish I found this before. Cheers bro!

[@NehalJWani]

+Shruhith Prem Cheers! :)

[@jaiminvarsani3852]

But why did you mount the boot partition after you downloaded the base??

[@NehalJWani]

+jaimin varsani The EFI partition has to be mounted anytime before setting up the bootloader. (In our case, GRUB).

[@macbouh]

hi ! don't you need 3 partition for arch ? swap, /, /home ?

[@NehalJWani]

/home doesnt necessarily have to be a separate partition. You can create one if you want.

[@courtevillej]

Thx a lot for this video, was really helping keep instruct us :)

[@NehalJWani]

Thanks You for the comment!

[@soufianta8374]

And what about the Xserver? Has it been installed (or included) with "gnome-desktop" and/or "GDM"?

[@NehalJWani]

Instead of xorg-server, wayland was pulled in as a dependency in the video.

[@soufianta8374]

Nehal J Wani I didn’t saw that ! My bad I guess but what do you think about Ubuntu honestly ?

[@NehalJWani]

@@soufianta8374 Each Linux distribution has it's pros and cons. I use Fedora mostly.

[@soufianta8374]

Nehal J Wani why fedora and not arch (or maybe Ubuntu)?

[@soufianta8374]

Indeed wayland 1.5.0 during the gnome-desktop install + nvidia and other lib drivers too.

[@RafaelColladoLemon]

Thank you so much. You helped me fix my problem with grub + EFI!

[@NehalJWani]

Rafael Collado Glad to be of help! :-)

[@AnkitKumarOjha02]

what's the name of the song/music in the starting of this video. Please

[@NehalJWani]

'Every Step' By 'Silent Partner'

[@AnkitKumarOjha02]

I appreciate your work and effort brother. Keep going. Thank You very much.

[@mr0shahin]

You're a very helpful man this is my first time to install arch without architect! but I'll not do this again :) architect helps you not to forget anything and much faster But I Wanted to do this just to gain experience Cheers

[@NehalJWani]

+-MAS- Yay!!!

[@alexwinsalexwins]

Nice tutorial! Thank You!

[@pkapoor183]

Hey! I entered the command mkswap -L "Linux Swap" /dev/sda instead of dev/sda11 which is my free space. Now it displays an error message. What shall I do?

[@NehalJWani]

What the hell!!! What is the exact error message?

[@pkapoor183]

+Nehal J Wani I don't remember what it was exactly.

[@NehalJWani]

Type the command: gdisk -l /dev/sda And share output.

[@J4Y1227]

But of course I ran into another problem...After browsing for an answer for the past 2 hours, I could not find what the error "Failed to mount /boot/efi" mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock.

[@JulianReyesEscrigas]

thanks Nehal J Wani I've been looking for some information about it for quite

[@user117831]

Can I use this same method if I want to install Linux on a separate disk? Can I mount my EFI partition on one disk, to a Linux partition on another?

[@NehalJWani]

+Donald Williams Yes, you can do that.

[@ashwinexe]

😕I can't see the efi partition even after "mkdir -p /mnt/boot/efi" HELP!

[@NehalJWani]

What is the output for: gdisk -l /dev/sda Is the partitioning layout on your HDD even GPT?

[@xenehuman3703]

Well after going through the forum..i figured out my network controller is broadcom BCM43142 which is not supported by arch by default so i cant connect to wifi ....so can u please tell me how to connect using lan cable which is protected....my ethernet controller is:RTL811/8168/8411...and kernel modules loaded are r8169

[@NehalJWani]

Send a chat request to me on hangouts.google.com

[@hunganhhatrinh5987]

Hello. I've got a problem with grub. I did follow the tutorial and everything seemed fine, but in boot menu, there was only Windows Boot Manager, but no Grub. What shall I do? (Notebook: Acer Predator G9-591)

[@NehalJWani]

AFTER installing Arch Linux and setting up the loader in the ESP (FAT32 EFI partition), the steps are:(i) Get into BIOS (by pressing F2 when computer boots)(ii) Set Supervisor password(iii) Ensure Secure Boot is on(iv) Go to "Select an UEFI file as trusted for execution" and choose: EFI->Arch->grubx64.efi(v) Turn off Secure Boot(vi) In section 'Main', select F12 Boot Menu and change it to 'Enabled'(vii) (Optionally) clear Supervisor password(viii) Save BIOS settings and restart(viii) Press F12 on boot and now you can choose Arch.

[@hunganhhatrinh5987]

Thank you very much, it works.

[@NehalJWani]

Glad to be of help! :-)

[@Az1zb3k]

same here with my Asus k 55vd , i would appreciate your​ help if u can

[@NehalJWani]

Users with Acer laptops have to follow a few extra steps as mentioned in the bottom of the video description. Please go through that.

[@MrKarameyl]

Your tutorial is near perfect If i could I would've given you tons of likes thanks that's exactly what I wanted to do !

[@NehalJWani]

MrKarameyl Glad to be of help! :)

[@DiegoJaraPalomino]

man thank you so much, os-probe was the solution for all my problems. Thank you agaiin

[@NehalJWani]

+Diego J. Glad to be of help! :-)

[@orthodox8224]

can you tell me the best way to install kde desktop environment? should I boot system and then install or to install​ now

[@NehalJWani]

It's up to you. You can install KDE even now. Please go through wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/KDE

[@orthodox8224]

so I just type Pacman -Syu kde-deskop ?

[@NehalJWani]

No. Please read www.howtoforge.com/tutorial/arch-linux-kde-desktop/

[@UsmanAbdulHalim]

I see that you were on ethernet cable, im trying to set up my wlan but got messed up at some point. Would you mind make a for it?

[@UsmanAbdulHalim]

+Usman Abdul Halim Nah, idont need it. Found my problem. thx

[@voiceoftreason1760]

thanks! great tutorial, i will definitely try this. Can you maybe also do a tutorial on the virtual machine you used?

[@NehalJWani]

What do you want in the tutorial with the virtual machine?

[@voiceoftreason1760]

Nehal J Wani how to set it up with uefi and gpt so i can try to do an install of windows 8 and arch linux on a virtual machine first before i try it on my laptop and maybe screw up the recovery partitions.

[@NehalJWani]

Enhanced Pyrotechnics The point of using virtual machines is to learn yourself (by breaking and fixing things) :)

[@NehalJWani]

Enhanced Pyrotechnics I'll soon create a tutorial video of how to recover data from recovery partition when your partition table is screwed up.

[@intermarer9145]

Have I got this right (if installing windows/arch on the same disk)? - Install windows in UEFI mode. - Boot Arch, leave partitions that are there, but create new ones for Arch. - Install grub to same disk as Windows (ie. /dev/sda) - Install os-prober and run grub-mkconfig again and everything will be good to go? (skipped the normal/basic stuff)

[@NehalJWani]

+intermarer Read the video description. :)

[@NehalJWani]

+intermarer Read the video description. :) After installing Windows.

[@intermarer9145]

+Nehal J Wani Hi, thanks for the fast reply! I just want to know if I've got the basic concept of it. I could ofcourse just follow it to the letter, but I just want to check if I've understood the concept :)

[@NehalJWani]

Yes, you are on the right track.

[@NehalJWani]

Make sure you are connected to internet while installing Arch. Otherwise pacstrap won't work.

[@alfonsoalvarenga3021]

Hello. I have windows in a add (dev/sda) and I installed arch in a HDD (dev/sdc). The final step doesn't find my windows boot. How can I fix it?Thank you a lot for your video!

[@NehalJWani]

Is Windows installed in UEFI mode on a disk with GPT partition table? Share output for the command: sudo gdisk -l /dev/sda sudo gdisk -l /dev/sdc Or, just: sudo fdisk -l

[@alfonsoalvarenga3021]

Yes. The output (quite long) is as follow: [alf@archlinux ~]$ sudo fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 119.2 GiB, 128035676160 bytes, 250069680 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disklabel type: dos Disk identifier: 0x00000000 Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type /dev/sda1 1 4294967295 4294967295 2T ee GPT Disk /dev/sdb: 119.2 GiB, 128035676160 bytes, 250069680 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk /dev/sdc: 931.5 GiB, 1000204886016 bytes, 1953525168 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes Disklabel type: dos Disk identifier: 0x593afcae Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type /dev/sdc1 * 63 1197404773 1197404711 571G c W95 FAT32 (LBA) /dev/sdc2 1932553648 1953525167 20971520 10G 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT /dev/sdc3 1197473792 1205862399 8388608 4G 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sdc4 1205862400 1932553647 726691248 346.5G 83 Linux Partition 1 does not start on physical sector boundary. Partition table entries are not in disk order. Disk /dev/md126: 238.5 GiB, 256066453504 bytes, 500129792 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 16384 bytes / 32768 bytes Disklabel type: gpt Disk identifier: BC86D2F0-3F4E-4D89-8650-0089C337ECE8 Device Start End Sectors Size Type /dev/md126p1 2048 616447 614400 300M Windows recovery environment /dev/md126p2 616448 819199 202752 99M EFI System /dev/md126p3 819200 1081343 262144 128M Microsoft reserved /dev/md126p4 1081344 500127743 499046400 238G Microsoft basic data [alf@archlinux ~]$ #### It is worth mentioning that I installed the grub in /dev/sdc

[@NehalJWani]

Hmm, looks like Windows is on a disk with RAID. Send a chat request to me on hangouts, I'll assist you there.

[@PedroSilva-xm1de]

when i do pacstrap /mnt base i only get errors, any idea why?

[@souravmazumdar5583]

I have a Acer laptop and did exactly as you showed without any errors reported. After reboot as you asked to go into bios and configure the EFI I tried going into bios but all I get is a black screen with a white underscore, No BIOS!! I can boot into windows fine but I am not being able to access BIOS. Please help

[@NehalJWani]

Please read the video description. I have added special instructions for ACER laptops. I'll copy paste them here: If you have an ACER laptop, please perform the following extra steps: AFTER installing Arch Linux and setting up the loader in the FAT32 EFI partition, the steps are: 1. Get into BIOS - by pressing F2 when computer boots 2. Set Supervisor password 3. Ensure Secure Boot is on 4. Go to "Select an UEFI file as trusted for execution" and choose: EFI - arch - grubx64.efi 5. Turn off Secure Boot 6. In section 'Main', select F12 Boot Menu and change it to 'Enabled' 7. -Optionally, clear Supervisor password 8. Save BIOS settings and restart 9. Press F12 on boot and now you can choose Arch.

[@souravmazumdar5583]

I have followed your additional steps but still the problem persists. I solved this by deleting the arch directory in the EFI folder. After this I was able to go into my BIOS Then I again reinstalled arch and am successfully running both arch and windows but after installing arch ,I don't my BIOS this time as well.

[@harvardprofessor4935]

I shrank 70gb of D: space but it says I only have 3.7mb of free space

[@emilioheringer]

the only tutorial that works to me

[@NehalJWani]

Thank you for your comment :)

[@emilioheringer]

Nehal J Wani obrigado :)

[@thinhle1611]

the partion number of Linux System is 2. But it still appear this " mkfs.ext4 -L "Arch Linux" /dev/sda2 does not exist and no size was specified. how can i fix this?

[@NehalJWani]

+Thịnh Le In order for me to help you, please share the output for the command: gdisk -l /dev/sda

[@thinhle1611]

thanks pro, but it's nothing matter, cmt " partprobe -s" can solve this error. But i have the other error , cmt " ip link set interface up " : operation not permitted . i tried to " sudo ip link set interface up : operation not permitted". HELP !! :( .. and "rkill list " not showing wifi :(

[@NehalJWani]

+Thịnh Le Please share output for the command lspci | grep -i network. Also, read this: wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wireless_network_configuration#Getting_some_useful_information

[@thinhle1611]

my output " no such file directory ".

[@thinhle1611]

i use USB Wifi and cmt " lsusb | grep -i network " output : ".... RTL8188EUS 802.1n ..... "

[@switchninja3979]

I got loaded into gnu grub 2.04. Do you know how to load into the kernel and fix the problem ??

[@NehalJWani]

Could you share a screenshot of the screen?

[@jaredhess9952]

Very helpful! I am running into a problem. I have done everything up to 7:51 correctly and when I get to the next step, after typing arch-chroot /mnt, I recieve a message "Mount: mount point /mnt/ec/resolv.conf does not exist" followed by the error "failed to setup resolv.conf"

[@NehalJWani]

+Jared Hess Did you not run pacstrap /mnt base? Did it fail or something?

[@jaredhess9952]

+Nehal J Wani I did. after a little research, it would appear I need toake a kernel for my ethernet adapter as it isn't supported by arch in its current state. Thank you for the response.

[@NehalJWani]

+Jared Hess Are you sure you need to build a kernel module? Before typing anything, when you boot the Arch Linux installation media, are you able to get an IP on your ethernet adapter (if you are using DHCP)? Are you able to ping any public IP address? I mean to ask, if 'ip addr' shows that your network interface exists, then probably kernel module is not the issue here.

[@jaredhess9952]

I am unable to ping public addresses and I do not have an ip on the router. When I do the ip config command, I only get the first line of text.

[@NehalJWani]

Could you share the output of the command: lspci | grep -i network

[@manish7512]

Hi Nehal, how do I install in Arch Linux if the empty partition space is not at the end of the disk. basically if the empty space is not present at the end it is not getting detected by gdisk. The manufacturer has created the recovery partition at the end of the disk. I don't want to delete the recovery partition.

[@NehalJWani]

Could you please type gdisk -l /dev/sda and copy paste the output here, as a reply to this comment?

[@manish7512]

I dont know how to copy and send while installing. posting link to pic goo.gl/photos/i1DzfYmGDAjjws9U6 my hard disk partition(m2 ssd ). goo.gl/photos/P7tFvGCcjyeXv3P3A

[@NehalJWani]

/dev/sda seems to be your ssd. Please share output for gdisk -l /dev/sdb

[@manish7512]

it says Problem opening /dev/sdb for reading! Error is 2. The specified file does not exist!

[@NehalJWani]

Okay, Share output for: fdisk -l and lsblk