Yesterday I accidentally run rm -rf / because everybody makes mistakes.
each step is written here:1 - first memtest86
2 - swap memories, test one memory slot each time, and test a new one memory module from another laptop that it's working. So in this part I figure out that my laptop was broken, so Nico borrow me an old laptop :'-( .
3 - UEFI, installing Archlinux on UEFI require use the pen-drive on UEFI mode. after boot on UEFI mode, I did a back up to the files on the /home directory and install the Operative System again.
4 - first I already have the partition so, this part is not new. the only thing with this new laptop is that I have to do a new UEFI partition to the grub, my old laptop does not have UEFI mode, so the grub was installed in the BIOS MBR sort of.
After I did the new UEFI Archlinux partition with "cfdisk /dev/sda" change Type to UEFI system, and verify if the notebook has a the boot mode UEFI listing this directory:
ls -l /sys/firmware/efi/efivars
If the output show you a list of files! Bingo you are currently booting in UEFI mode.
In UEFI we need the partition table in this Disklabel "GPT", so we check with
fdisk -l if the partition table is type BIOS or GPT. the output should be like:
"Disklabel type: gpt"
Also used parted -l to fix an error that was show up when we execute "fdisk -l":
"something that GPT partition was different from MBR partition"
"GPT PMBR size mismatch" something like that.
To do that: I installed parted
$pacman -S parted && parted -l /dev/sda
5 - After that I formatted the partitions to do a fresh installation.
mkswap /dev/sda6
swapon /dev/sda6
mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda5 => /root
mkfs.vfat -F32 /dev/sda7 => /boot/grub/efi
6 - preparing for the chroot
from general to specify
mount /dev/sda5 /mnt
mkdir -p /mnt/boot/efi
mount /dev/sda7 /mnt/boot/efi
7 - using pacstrap to install base system
pacstrap /mnt base base-devel grub os-prober ntfs-3g networkmanager efibootmgr gvfs gvfs-afc dhcpcd vim linux-headers linux-firmware linux netctl wpa_supplicant xf86-input-synaptics pavucontrol htop lshw meld transmission-gtk docker docker-compose gvfs-mtp xdg-user-dirs lightdm xorg xorg-xinit gnome-keyring xorg-server xorg-server-common xf86-video-vesa xorg-font-util ttf-dejavu opencl-nvidia dkms git terminator rsync go-tools cinnamon-desktop cinnamon gnome-terminal lightdm-gtk-greeter pulseaudio pulseaudio-alsa firefox vlc gimp xfburn gedit gnome-system-monitor faenza-icon-theme smartmontools
(xorg is an alias and in this case I installed ALL :O, just in case).
At first I did the install of nvidia and nvidia-utils nvidia-304, driver BUT doesn't have the correct version of the drivers that I need. so I have to uninstall later to install the correct one.
Something to remember if you install nvidia-lts you need to install kernel-lts and header-lts, and re run mkinitcpio -p.
nvidia-xconfig to set Xorg configuration. See Also nvidia-settings and nvidia-smi.
nouveau-dri I tried to install the open source driver but was a failed, after many modprobe and rmprobe with nouveau and nvidia and debuging with modinfo -p video, lshw -c video, so I install the legacy driver from an AUR package with the tool "yay" is a client writen on golang, and is easy to use and install from Cli.
Cinnamon package to see sections:
$ pacman -Ql cinnamon | awk -F '[_.]' '/cs_.+\.py/ {print $2}'
8 - generar fstab
genfstab -pU /mnt >> /mnt/etc/fstab
9 - the chroot to make some configurations and installing the grub in the new uefi partition.
arch-chroot /mnt
10 - without GUI, setting configuration files, service, and customizations:
hostname:
echo "CoolName" >> /etc/hostname
Timezone:
ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Buenos_Aires /etc/localtime
Setting Locale:
uncomment a line on this file "/etc/locale.gen" and run the command cli $ locale-gen
Setting keymap:
localectl list-keymaps | grep -i us (list all available keymaps)echo "KEYMAP=us" > /etc/vconsole.conf (do the setting)
Making grub config file:
echo "GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=false" >> /etc/default/grub (edit /etc/default/grub)
grub-install --efi-directory=/boot/efi --bootloader-id="Archlinux" --target=x86_64-efi --removable
os-prober (testing if we have another OS like windows)
grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
Adding a new user to use with sudo:
useradd -m -g users -G audio,lp,optical,video,wheel,games,power,scanner -s /bin/bash j3nnn1
passwd j3nnn1
Installing nvidia driver via Yay:
- git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/yay.git
- cd yay
- makepkg -si (don't forget to add this user to sudoers file)
- if you run without -i use pacman -U package.gz (optional)
- yay -S nvidia-390xx-dkms
- yay -S google-chrome
- yay -S numix-gtk-theme
Setting Time:
- timedatectl set-ntp true. (only if you did previously the setting of timezone on the file: /etc/localtime)
- timedatectl timesync-status
- timedatectl status
Related to Kernel:
- mkinitcpio -P
Enable display manager and network manager and GUI:
- systemctl enable lightdm
- systemctl enable NetworkManager
- systemctl isolate graphical.target ( testing graphical UI, on next reboot will be dismiss this change)
- systemctl set-default multi-user.target (CLI)
- systemctl set-default graphical.target (GUI)
- systemctl get-default
11 - enable GUI.
- systemctl set-default graphical.target (GUI)
12 - disable GUI (troubleshooting).
- systemctl set-default multi-user.target (CLI)
13 - testing with startx (xorg-xinit and xorg-apps should be installed)
- edit file "~/.xinitrc".
vim ~/.xinitrc
OR
echo "exec cinnamon-session" > ~/.xinitrc
- from CLI execute: startx
And That's all.
By now..
Sorry about the Spanglish and grammatical errors.
14 - tools nvidia
is loaded nvidia driver?
dkms install --no-depmod nvidia/390.144 -k 5.15.3-arch1-1 && depmod 5.15.3-arch1-1
Logs
cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log
Blacklist noveau
caracas# cat /usr/lib/modprobe.d/nvidia-390xx-dkms.conf
blacklist nouveau
When The Xorg Server API is not compatible with the driver:
caracas# cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-server_flags.conf
Section "ServerFlags"
Option "IgnoreABI" "1"
EndSection
cat /usr/lib/modprobe.d/nvidia-lts.conf
update nvidia driver with new API
..@TODO
References:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVIDIA#Installation
gdm locked user.
vim /etc/security/faillock.conf
deny = 9999
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