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installing arch.md
  1. partition the disk, with cfdisk:
    1. EFI/boot partition 512M (sda1), partition type EF00 on gdisk
    2. root partition, rest of the space, with LVM format (sda2)
  2. format:
    1. format boot mkfs.fat -F32 /dev/sda1
  3. encryption:
    1. cryptsetup luksFormat /dev/sda2 & cryptsetup open /dev/sda2 cryptolvm
    2. create physical volume pvcreate /dev/mapper/cryptolvm
    3. create volume groups vgcreate MyVol /dev/mapper/cryptolvm
    4. create logical volumes lvcreate -L 1G MyVol -n swap and lvcreate -L 100%FREE MyVol -n root
    5. mkfs.ext4 /dev/mapper/MyVol-root
    6. mkswap /dev/mapper/MyVol-swap
    7. mount /dev/mapper/MyVol-root /mnt & swapon /dev/mapper/MyVol-swap
    8. mkdir /mnt/boot & mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/boot
  4. installation: pacstrap /mnt base
  5. Fstab genfstab -L /mnt >> /mnt/etc/fstab
  6. arch-chroot /mnt
  7. ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/region/city /etc/localtime & hwclock --systohc
  8. uncomment en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8 from /etc/locale.gen, run locale-gen
  9. set LANG=en_US.UTF-8 in /etc/locale.conf
  10. network: /etc/hostname > myhostname, etc/hosts:
    1. 127.0.0.1 localhost
    2. ::1 localhost
    3. 127.0.1.1 myhostname.localdomain myhostname
  11. mkinitcpio:
    1. MODULES="vfio vfio_iommu_type1 vfio_pci vfio_virqfd"
    2. HOOKS=modconf base udev autodetect block encrypt lvm2 filesystemds keyboard fsck
    3. mkinitcpio -p linux
    4. passwd
  12. grub:
    1. GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet threadirqs current splash intel_iommu=on video=efifb:off rd.modules-load=vfio-pci rw amdgpu.si_support=1 radeon.si_support=0 nowatchdog"
    2. cryptdevice=/dev/mapper/MyVol-root root=/dev/mapper/root
    3. or cryptdevice=/dev/sda2:cryptolvm
    4. GRUB_ENABLE_CRYPTODISK=y

    5. grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/efi --bootloader-id=GRUB

    6. grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
  13. exit and reboot
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