Experience the thrill ! systemd-boot looks less bloated than grub while graphically horrible
Machine has 2 hard drives:

• sdb 256GB msata
• sda 1T SSD

The concept will be to put all system on sda and and data/VMs on sdb

Dowload ISO

On the live system,

systemctl start sshd.service

passwd

ip a

On a second PC, connect to the live system via SSH:

ssh root@<IP-OF-THE-LIVE-SYSTEM>

A very simple setup:

• sdb1 fat32 EFI crap (from Windows)550MB
• sdb2 swap 10G
• sdb3 btrfs with tons of subvolumes

Adapt if you have only one drive with full Linux install like:

• sda1 (home) btrfs all drive

gdisk /dev/sda
# tout sda en linux 
o [enter]
n[enter]
[enter x 4]
w [enter]

gdisk /dev/sdb

Command (? for help): o

Command (? for help): n [enter]
Partition number (1-128, default 1):[enter]
First sector (34-500118158, default = 2048) or {+-}size{KMGTP}:[enter]
Last sector (2048-500118158, default = 500118158) or {+-}size{KMGTP}: +550M
Hex code or GUID (L to show codes, Enter = 8300): EF00

(choose size 550M and hex code EF00):

 Command (? for help): n
Partition number (2-128, default 2): [enter]
First sector (34-500118158, default = 1128448) or {+-}size{KMGTP}:[enter]
Last sector (1128448-500118158, default = 500118158) or {+-}size{KMGTP}: +10G[enter]
Hex code or GUID (L to show codes, Enter = 8300): 8200 [enter]

Select default values

Command (? for help): n [enter]
Partition number (3-128, default 3): [enter]
First sector (34-500118158, default = 22099968) or {+-}size{KMGTP}: [enter]
Last sector (22099968-500118158, default = 500118158) or {+-}size{KMGTP}: [enter]
Hex code or GUID (L to show codes, Enter = 8300): [enter]

Command (? for help): w

mkfs.vfat -F32 -n EFI /dev/sdb1 ## if not already existing
mkswap -L SWAP /dev/sdb2 # Adapt if necessary
mkfs.btrfs -L ROOT /dev/sdb3 # Adapt if necessary
mkfs.btrfs -L HOME /dev/sda1

# Adapt if necessary
mount /dev/sdb3 /mnt 
btrfs sub create /mnt/@
btrfs sub create /mnt/@pkg
btrfs sub create /mnt/@snapshots
btrfs sub create /mnt/@btrfs
umount /mnt
 
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt
btrfs sub create /mnt/@home
umount /mnt

mount -o noatime,nodiratime,compress=zstd,space_cache,ssd,subvol=@ /dev/disk/by-label/ROOT /mnt
mkdir -p /mnt/{boot,home,var/cache/pacman/pkg,.snapshots,btrfs}
#mount -o noatime,nodiratime,compress=zstd,space_cache,ssd,subvol=@home /dev/disk/by-label/ROOT /mnt/home
mount -o noatime,nodiratime,compress=zstd,space_cache,ssd,subvol=@home /dev/disk/by-label/HOME /mnt/home
mount -o noatime,nodiratime,compress=zstd,space_cache,ssd,subvol=@pkg /dev/disk/by-label/ROOT /mnt/var/cache/pacman/pkg
mount -o noatime,nodiratime,compress=zstd,space_cache,ssd,subvol=@snapshots /dev/disk/by-label/ROOT /mnt/.snapshots
mount -o noatime,nodiratime,compress=zstd,space_cache,ssd,subvolid=5 /dev/disk/by-label/ROOT /mnt/btrfs

mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/boot # Adapt if necessary
swapon /dev/sdb2 # Adapt if necessary

Install Arch Linux with (adjust this list to your needs):

pacstrap /mnt linux base base-devel btrfs-progs intel-ucode vim linux-firmware dhcpcd networkmanager

Optional, for über security If Multibooting… Microsoft creates a 100MB EFI partition so you cannot have 20 linux kernel…) Second warning some modules need recompiling (acpi_call/tpacpi-bat):

pacstrap /mnt linux-hardened base base-devel btrfs-progs intel-ucode vim linux-firmware dhcpcd networkmanager

genfstab -U /mnt >> /mnt/etc/fstab

arch-chroot /mnt/

echo <YOUR-HOSTNAME> > /etc/hostname

echo LANG=en_US.UTF-8 > /etc/locale.conf

Uncomment the following appropriates locales in /etc/locale.gen

en_US.UTF-8

locale-gen

echo KEYMAP=us-acentos > /etc/vconsole.conf
echo FONT=lat9w-16 >> /etc/vconsole.conf

ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Zurich /etc/localtime

#<ip-address>	<hostname.domain.org>	<hostname>
127.0.0.1	<YOUR-HOSTNAME>.localdomain	<YOUR-HOSTNAME>

Configure the creation of initramfs by editing /etc/mkinitcpio.conf.
Change the line HOOKS=… to:

HOOKS=(base keyboard udev autodetect modconf block keymap btrfs filesystems)

mkinitcpio -p linux

 bootctl --path=/boot install

Create file /boot/loader/entries/arch.conf and fill it with:

title Arch Linux
linux /vmlinuz-linux
initrd /intel-ucode.img
initrd /initramfs-linux.img
options root="LABEL=ROOT" rootflags=subvol=@ rw

Edit file /boot/loader/loader.conf and fill it with:

default  arch.conf
timeout  4
console-mode max
#editor   no

Exit chroot, unmount partitions and reboot:

passwd
exit
umount -R /mnt
reboot

If you forgot dhcpcd… like I did first time:

ip addr add 192.168.1.116/24 dev enp0s25
ip link set enp0s25 up
ip route add 192.168.1.0/24 via 192.168.1.1 dev ens0p25
echo "nameserver 192.168.1.1">> /etc/resolv.conf

pacman -S linux-firmware

To know the module:

lspci -k

Set the interface up

 ip link set wlp3s0 up

Isn't that a beautiful name? so romantic and of course more simple than eth0…. Thank you Lenard

systemctl enable --now NetworkManager

If you don't want NetworkManager

systemctl enable dhcpcd@enp0s25 

Start building and installing nice stuff

pacman -Sy yay git zsh htop openssh man-pages

vi /etc/pacman.conf

See: [[https://man.archlinux.org/man/pacman.conf.5| man 5 pacman.conf]

Remove the “#” in front of the line

#Color

curl -LO larbs.xyz/larbs.sh
sh larbs.sh

FAILOVER method:

 git clone https://github.com/LukeSmithxyz/LARBS.git
cd LARBS
sh larbs.sh

• https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Tp-battery-mode

yay -S tp-battery-mode

Config

vi /etc/tp-battery-mode.conf

START_THRESHOLD=85
STOP_THRESHOLD=100

Enable

systemctl enable tp-battery-mode
systemctl start tp-battery-mode

• https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Laptop#Power_management
• https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Laptop_Mode_Tools
• https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Power_management#Laptop_Mode

pacman -S acpi acpid tpacpi-bat
systemctl enable --now acpid

Then add

vm.laptop_mode = 5

in /etc/sysctl.d/laptop.conf

From aur

 yay laptop-mode-tools
systemctl enable --now laptop-mode

pacman -Sy i7z thermald cpupower
systemctl enable --now thermald
systemctl enable --now cpupower
acpi -i -b

vi /etc/default/cpupower

Uncomment #ondemand

Fn+F8/F9 works when adding

acpi_backlight=vendor

to /boot/loader/entries/arch.conf

• https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Firewalld

pacman -S firewalld
systemctl enable --now firewalld

This requires a SWAP partition/file

• https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Mkinitcpio (resume HOOK)
• https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Hibernation

resume="PARTLABEL=SWAP"

DOESN'T WORK

resume=UUID=8e3dfb9c-a8df-4312-9a7f-bf82120fb0ab

in /boot/loader/entries/arch.conf

HOOKS=(base udev autodetect modconf block keymap btrfs resume filesystems)

in /etc/mkinitcpio.conf then </code bash>mkinitcpio -P</code>

 journalctl -p 3 -xb

• https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Bluetooth

 pacman -S bluez bluez-utils
modprobe btusb
systemctl enable --now bluetooth
yay bcm20702a
bluetoothctl

• https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Chrony

systemctl disable systemd-timesyncd
pacman -S chrony

• /etc/chrony.conf

Uncomment / change iburst to offline

server 0.arch.pool.ntp.org offline
server 1.arch.pool.ntp.org offline
server 3.arch.pool.ntp.org offline

• Run

systemctl enable --now chronyd
chronyc
chronyc> online
200 OK
chronyc> exit

curl -O https://blackarch.org/strap.sh
chmod +x strap.sh
sudo ./strap.sh

• https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/CUPS

pacman -S cups cups-pdf
systemctl enable --now cups

• https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Advanced_Linux_Sound_Architecture#Unmuting_the_channels

pacman -S alsa-utils alsa-plugins
alsamixer
speaker-test -c 2

• https://github.com/teejee2008/timeshift

check if suspend works on hardened linux + if reboot works after no more batteries → 5% → hibernate rule etc,,,

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• https://starship.rs/

cpufreq ?

MISSING: backlight on battery

if using larbs:

vi ~/.local/bin/remaps

add

setxkbmap -layout us -variant intl

• https://nerdstuff.org/posts/2020/2020-004_arch_linux_luks_btrfs_systemd-boot/
• https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacman#Configuration
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