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Arch bootloader
Installed Arch Linux on my desktop machine.
* I had some issues with the bootloader installation, since I was used to boot without UEFI mode, so I needed to just install a simple bootloader after
the installation finished, instead of GRUB.
* The additional steps for this were:
* Instead of the usual ext2 partition of 100M I created a 200M partition
* formatted it with fat32 and also selecting with cfdisk EFI System, for the system to recognise it.
* Later to install the bootloader, I just did an bootctl install and later added the following to /boot/loader/entries/arch.conf
title Arch Linux
linux /vmlinuz-linux
initrd /initramfs-linux.img
options root=/dev/<partition> rw
replacing <partition> for the root partition.
Another thing I noticed is that the included SSD had a different naming and was not sdX, but /dev/nvme0n1 so all the partitions where:
* /dev/nvme0n1p1
* /dev/nvme0n1p2
* /dev/nvme0n1p3
I couldn't start all the process regarding the email and so, because the password was not working, but it give me time to finishing up all the post-install on my desktop, and at least everything is working as planned.
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