2016 Arch Linux EFI Install Guide Part 2 - Installing Arch and Making it Boot

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)

PART 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 processors
-Installing video card drivers

Full Guide:

[DiogoVKersting]

I'm new to installing arch on UEFI and your "tutorial" was just great!
Clear and Straight to the point.

[ngggf]

you sir are a hero, i've had so much trouble trying to get all the different bootloaders to work, thankyou so much for your efforts, great tutorials!

[ravespector]

Thank you so much for this video series. This is the only video guide on Youtube that worked for me, so I appreciate the effort. Now I have a working Arch system!

[chadrickman]

Thanks for this! Arch wiki is nice but I couldn't get grub to work properly till I used this tutorial. Running Arch with i3wm like a champ now.

[adrianwisa]

I think it would be helpful to make a video exclusively on installing a bootloader on arch.

[dsniper]

Thank you so much for taking your time share with us. followed and have working arch linux install. on the number 3 video. thanks again

[wetwingnut]

This is the first video series where my system actually booted after completing all of the steps.
Thanks - it's been frustrating getting to this point, but I've learned a lot.
I haven't understood my OS this well since I worked with DOS back in the day...

A couple of suggestions :
1. Take a breath before you hit ENTER. Especially when ENTER is going to blank the screen.
2. Make sure the you articulate precisely the characters that you are typing including all of the spaces, dashes, and dots.
3. Articulate "ENTER"
4. Explain the what / why of the commands a bit more. Why are we executing this command? What does it do? Is it important for the install or is it just to verify or view something?

Great videos though. As I said, you're the first person who's actually gotten me through this - big props to
you.

[tuulijokinen]

When I enter the command "pacstrap -i /mnt base base-devel" (without the quotes), I get the list of things to download. However, after I hit y and enter, it installs some things and occasionally gives me 6 lines of this same error message:
"error could not open file invalid argument"
(again, without quotes), followed by
"warning: failed to retrieve some files"
"error: failed to commit transaction ( failed to retrieve some files)"
"errors occured, no packages were upgraded"
"==> ERROR: Failed to install packages to new root"
(all without quotes).

What should I do?

Edit: this happened at ~8:00 in the video.

[FelipeFujimori]

Thank you, I had issues with my GTX and this video solved it. Really appreciate. :)

[gjermundification]

@11:00 ln -s /etc/localtime

ln -s in general works like cp, but it leaves a symlink, not a copy at its destination spot.

[voiceoftreason]

Why are you adding the the french repo link to your pacman.conf. You say its so you can install from the AUR with Yaourt, but why the french server?

[beat]

I saw this arch install video of another guy and he set another bigger font so it was easier to read. If you'll ever make another video like this I recommend you do that as well.

[JoshuaDTaylor]

When i type the command "pacman -Syy" i get an error saying "error: failed retrieving file 'archlinux.db' from repo.archlinux.fr : The requested URL returned error: 404" anyone help me with how to resolve this?

[mauricioseiblitz]

It helped me a lot. Thank you very much. Congratulations on the two videos.

[SyN]

blkid -s PARTUUID -o value /dev/sdaX >
and you will have that UUID in file and then you can start edit...
nice work, ty

[philipsheard]

installed, thank you so much . now for xorg and plasma! Exciting!

[hareshgedia]

Great guide. A suggestion regarding boot loader config. you don't need to write down the UUID, you can simply re-direct it blkid -s PARTUUID -o value /dev/sdxY >> arch.conf and edit the text there.

[sofadhana]

I noticed you didn't run mkinitcpio -p linux before setting up bootctl (as I understand it, mkinitcpio creates the initramfs etc files you specify in loader.conf). I've always seen that command as being needed on the install procedures I've read. Is it included in the pacstrap installation nowadays or somewhere else?

[JavainMuert]

Thank you very much for this useful guide. It saved my day

[lukapostmyr]

At 18:52 when I nano it says no such file or directory, where as on yours it says "New File" and when I try to ctrl+O to save the file, it says "Error writing No such file or directory".

How do I fix this? I thought I had saved it before because it didn't give me an error like it does now, or at least I thought it did, but when I tried the next step (actually booting into linux) it said something like "linuz doesn't exist" which looked similar to the line from the arch.conf file: "linux/vmlinuz-linux"

Edit- boot says "Error - \vmlinuz-lunx not found"

Edit2- I also can now not load Windows, it says "Windows failed to I thought it would be fine to dualboot linux on the same drive as Windows is on, but then this happened, please help me fix it man....