why did you unpin the other comment? please re-pin it!

lol

As I'm typing this boot said: failed to activate swap. Well fuck

Same lol

@@Keiran19 o o f

@@ivantarnyagin9731 I know this was from a year ago but if anybody has this problem, check to make sure you actually formatted your swap partition as swap

Awesome to hear!! Glad you found it helpful and I appreciate you taking the time and making the comment.

You're welcome James! Glad you found it helpful. Make sure to smash that like button for me if you haven't already ^^

You're welcome! Glad you found it helpful. Make sure to smash that like button for me if you haven't already =)

I appreciate the addition. That's too bad that it was disabled by default. I'll pin this. Thanks again.

cool

but how do you edit it

@@Konkovnano /etc/default/grub

Nice

Great to hear! Glad I could help. Make sure to smash that like button on the video if you haven't already =)

No problem and that's great to hear, Marco! Make sure to smash that like button for me on the video if you haven't already =)

What are the pros/cons of creating another EFI partition like in your other video?

​@@rjley - I guess the pro of having separate partitions is that you won't have the potential of messing up your win EFI partition if you do something wrong. Also you won't have to resize the EFI partition since Arch recommends 512MB+ and Win only comes with 100MB. Some of the cons are that I've heard of people having issues with updating their EFI partitions since they have two separate ones, however, I haven't had any personally. Also that it might seem a little redundant since multiple operating system boots can be installed on one EFI so why not resize the EFI? Arch recommends the latter. I think you can run into issues with re-installing Windows if you have 2 EFI partitions as well, but haven't confirmed this. It could be that it may not know which partition to use in that case, but I'm sure you can get around it if you were to manually reconfigure the disk EFI partitions =)

SavvyNik thanks!

@@rjley - No problem, glad I could help! Make sure to destroy that like button on the vid if you haven't already ^^

@@anshulkanwar1 Sweet =)

Awesome!! Thanks for the feedback =) I'll keep the videos coming.

Happy to help! Congrats and glad you liked the video :)

So why you need windows?

@@hedgegod8644 probably some school apps that can't run in Wine 🍷

I'd use arch 24/7 if not for MS office...

Awesome to hear!! Thanks =)

Thank you! worked for me

Thank You!!!

Thanks bro

Ty so much

Thank you so much, that worked for me👏

No problem, glad you found the video helpful! I'll keep the videos coming =)

You're welcome! Glad you found the video helpful =)

Awesome to hear! Glad you found it helpful and thanks for following!!

Thanks a ton!

You're welcome! Glad you got things working :)

Hey there Ryan!! Thanks so much, I really appreciate the kind remarks and hearing this type of feedback. It's always a great motivator =) I'll keep them coming!

Glad you found the video helpful and you got Arch installed successfully. Think about subscribing for more :)

Super awesome! You're welcome and make sure to destroy that like button for me on the vid if you didn't already ^^

Awesome to hear! Congrats and make sure to smash that like button for me on the video if you haven't already =)

@Ajay Karthikesan - Thanks!! Appreciate the kind remark =)

Awesome to hear! Congrats and you're welcome. Make sure to smash that like button for me if you haven't already =)

You're welcome!

@@SavvyNik currently watching your newer video on installing, Some things were breaking after first install so wanted to re install everything 😀

You're welcome! Glad you found it helpful. Make sure to smash that like button for me if you haven't already on the vid ^^

You're welcome. Glad you liked it!

You're welcome! Glad you found the video helpful. Make sure to destroy that like button for me if you haven't already :)

You're welcome!! Glad it worked out. Make sure to smash that like button for me and think about subbing ;)

Glad you found it helpful!! You're welcome and thanks for the greeting =)

No problem, glad to hear it

Glad you liked it!

No problem, glad you found it helpful! Make sure to smash that like button for me if you haven't already =)

@@SavvyNik yes here 1 like for u bruh

Glad it was helpful!

Glad you enjoyed the tutorial :)

Hey, your comment seems recent. Just wanted to know if this video holds good even after 2 years or did you get any new probs ? 🙂

Glad I could help! Make sure to destroy that like button for me if you haven't already ^^

You're welcome! Glad you found it helpful. Make sure to smash that like button for me if you haven't already.

Glad to hear it! Thanks for the great comment :)

@@SavvyNik yo just one question. i finished ur installation but later i realised i needed to enable os-prober and now windows doesnt show in grub. but when i boot into arch and try to run "sudo os-prober" it says that the sudo command cant be found. any fix for that? i saw u installed way fewer packages than some other tutorials i saw so maybe i was wondering if there was some update? btw thanks for the quick reply. also i am trying this in a vm so u can tell me to do the riskiest shit to the partitions if i need to lmao

you don't have to run with sudo if you're already logged in as root

Eh dw. I got it all figured out on my own now. But still ty

Awesome job!

Thanks for sharing! I'm glad things worked out. I'll have to check out the cfdisk thing. Not sure why the tool would've changed.

@@SavvyNik I don't think the tool changed, but I think @jajohns8 might be talking about the same issue I ran into following this guide. cfdisk only listed the USB that the arch iso was on, nothing else. After some Googling I found that the issue was I'm using an NVMe instead of a SSD or HDD. So I just ran cfdisk against my NVMe and it worked. I'm using a Dell Latitude 7290 and this guide, other than that small issue, worked perfectly. Thanks mate.

For anyone guess it's cfdisk /dev/nvme something

You are welcome!

Hey @ShawCode, glad you got things working and thanks for kind remarks! Make sure to destroy that like button for me on the vid if you haven't already =)

@CyberKing_Apollo hi

@CyberKing_Apollo cool

You're welcome! Glad you found it helpful. Make sure to smash that like button for me if you haven't already =)

@Przemysław Małogórski - No problem, and I really appreciate that!! =) Make sure to destroy that like button for me on the video if you haven't already ^^

@@SavvyNik It was the first thing I did :)

@@przemysawmaogorski5145 - You're the best! Thanks for that =)

Congrats!

LET'S GO!!

No problem!

@Dennis M - No problem, ask away! Glad you enjoy my explanations. Well to start off do you know you can launch a tty directly from your desktop environment? Try CTRL+ALT+F1 or F2 (it might be a different F key) that would be the simplest way instead of adding another boot entry to grub. I think you could refer to this article and it might help if you want to do the latter. askubuntu.com/questions/1029339/add-grub-menu-item-to-boot-into-terminal

You're welcome! Glad it helped. Make sure to smash that like button for me if you haven't already.

@@SavvyNik liked the vid and subbed :thumbsup:

Awesome, thanks for supporting the channel.

@@SavvyNik np :)

Thanks for sharing, I'm sure this will help other users with the same laptops.

Um hey do you mind explaining how to add the customized boot option

Hahaha!!! Glad you didn't lose the house ;) also happy to have you subscribed and following.

Use iwd / iwctl to setup your wifi connection.

@@SavvyNik Yeah I did use iwctl but I was out of archiso for some reason. Thanks for the advice bro. Imma take a break on arch.

Haha congrats on the install! Starting with Arch is pretty wild but have fun and make sure to smash that like button for me if you haven't already ^^

So glad to hear! As a first time Arch Linux installer this looks intimidating but seeing how you managed to install it without errors really makes it easier!

@@owbutt =)

Here's one of my other videos that shows how to change console font if that's what you're asking about - ukposts.info/have/v-deo/pqiGiKSRjZqEl2g.html

Haha you're welcome!

You're welcome! Glad you found the video helpful. Make sure to smash that like button for me if you haven't already =)

Thanks!

I don't usually create swap when having so much physical memory. Some argue it might help a bit with processes that can run cleanup without using physical memory, but I've never noticed anything substantial.

I use a bluetooth keyboard and it works just fine.

@@ojash25 I forgot but I used a guide that showed how to fix it

​​@@Anthonyg5005do you remember by any chance what the guide was?

@@xektor_xd not really but I started using the official guide when installing. You have to read through carefully though and avoid rushing. You could also use endeavour os for the easiest Arch install.

Sure if it's empty

You're probably better off following this version of the install on your second disk: ukposts.info/have/v-deo/e2N1k6exrm9l12w.html In this video there's a new EFI partition created. Which is what you would need to do in order to separate the operating systems on two disks. Also when finished you will need to select between the disks in BIOs in order to switch operating systems since the bootloaders will be unaware of each other (since they're going to be on separate disks). You might want to refer to this video at the end of things though in order to install the proper network packages.

@@SavvyNik Thank you for nice video and answer! They are very helpful! 😃

@@nanoc5686 Awesome, no problem. Glad I could help. Make sure to smash that like button on the video for me if you already haven't. =)

Try and confirm that you have Arch at the top of your boot priority in bios instead of the windows boot manager.

@Kashley Pelo - I have no doubt you will ^^ and yes it can definitely be complicated, but I'm sure you're learning a lot regardless!

You're welcome!! Glad you found the video helpful. Make sure to smash that like button for me if you haven't already.

Thanks CraftTheSky!!

@@SavvyNik Thank you for such an amazing tutorial, it really helped me a lot.

No problem. Glad it helped =)

Same, did someone find solution?

Only in MBR/Legacy BIOS I think, GPT only needs EFI System.

Thanks for sharing! And no problem =)

No way to access files between the two easily. Other than a USB storage device. You can reserve however much you want for Arch. Usually it's suggested at a minimum 8GB.

This doesn't effect your BIOs. My thought is that you have the wrong key to get into your BIOs or your are spamming it at the wrong time. I would look up your motherboard and try figuring out what is the correct key to get into BIOs and spam it as soon as you start up the computer until you get in.

You could try to add a "UEFI Firmware" entry to GRUB. (Or just type fwsetup in the grub shell)

wooot!

@@SavvyNik though I am actually having an issue after install now... I followed you in the guide and installed netctl, but I am on wireless, and the guide I found on how to set it up (copying the wpa-wireless thing in the netctl directory, etc.) doesn't seem to have worked. I installed iwd to be able to connect to the network, and it is indeed connected to my WAP, but unfortunately I have no internet on it, it won't ping and can't use pacman, etc. Any suggestions? Should I just reinstall from scratch and use NetworkManager?

Oh nevermind, just had to enable dhcpcd@wlan0.

You can login to your Linux system and reconfigure GRUB using os-prober.

@@SavvyNik thanks ✌️ nice tutorial btw

You're welcome.

You can save and exit with Ctrl+X as well. The editor asks you where your want to save the modified buffer. You need to put in ‘Y’ as specified in the video

You're welcome

Thanks Fabio for the kind remarks!! Sounds like you did everything right. Have you ever been able to see GRUB after the installation? Secure boot should be disabled like you had it in the beginning and the only other thing I could think of in BIOs that might cause an issue is if you have Fast Boot enabled. It should be disabled if you have that option. Other than that I'm not sure what is giving you so much trouble. When you made your GRUB config I assume you had no errors and it showed both Linux and Windows as detected.

@@SavvyNik Hi Nik! Thanks for the Quick answer! No, GRUB never appeared during the boot. The system simply starts on Windows 10. Yes, I really believe I did everything right, and double checked a few times. Also, Safe boot is off. The only way I saw any signal of GRUB was when I disabled UEFI, so booting in Legacy Mode, and got GRUB RESCUE> menu. To me, looks like it is something specifically related to the Acer Aspire F15 laptop I am using.

Also, using supergrub on an usb-drive, I am able to see the option to boot in arch linux and it does work fine. Using this method I am able to boot in arch linux without any errors (obviously using UEFI boot mode). Supergrub shows the following entries: Linux /boot/vmlinuz-linux (hd2,gpt5) >> this boots directly to Arch Linux /boot/vmlinuz-linux (single) (hd2,gpt5) (hd2,gpt1)/efi/Boot/bootx64.efi (hd2,gpt1) >> this boots to grub where I can choose Arch or Windows (hd2,gpt1)/efi/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgfw.efi (hd2,gpt1) >> this boots directly to Windows, so looks like this is the one the system is using... (hd2,gpt1)/efi/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgr.efi (hd2,gpt1) >> this returns error messages (hd2,gpt1)/efi/Microsoft/Boot/memtest.efi (hd2,gpt1) (hd2,gpt1)/EFI/Boot/bootx64.efi (hd2,gpt1) >> this boots to grub where I can choose Arch or Windows (hd2,gpt1)/EFI/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgfw.efi (hd2,gpt1) >> this boots directly to Windows, so looks like this is the one the system is using... (hd2,gpt1)/EFI/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgr.efi (hd2,gpt1) >> this returns error messages (hd2,gpt1)/EFI/Microsoft/Boot/memtest.efi (hd2,gpt1) Now I am researching about how to change those entries, making those booting directly to windows to follow the commands on those booting correctly into GRUB menu.

@@fabiorlsouza Good luck! Looks like you're going in the right direction for sure. Just be careful with your EFI part entries. It can leave your system unbootable if you edit entries and make mistakes.

@@SavvyNik Thanks! Yes, you're right... that's why I am researching more and more before I finally try to edit something in these guys... I don't even know where to start from, so, I probably need to study a lot before making any further movements... I'll let you know if I succeed, so you can help anyone else who appears around here with the same kind of problem. ;) Cheers!

I would just make sure to install the Nvidia proprietary drivers in order to make things run smoother if you plan on using a GUI. Other than that I haven't really experienced any issues with my Nvidia setup.

@@SavvyNik But how could I do that if I can't even get past the boot screen?

@@lethanielsimpson641 usually this can be done during the install process if you have Nvidia otherwise you'll have to probably set nomodeset login to a CLI and install. Look up how to set nomodeset through the GRUB bootloader.

@@SavvyNik Will do. Thanks!

Glad you found it helpful! Make sure to smash that like button for me if you haven't already =)

You're welcome! Glad you figured things out.

Take a look and see what type of adapter you have. You might need to install extra drivers to support your specific adapter.

ok I just realised that with cfdisk it shows ....the usb I am using!! not the hard drive, how to view the space in my hard drive?

I answer myself: when prompting cfdisk STOP add whatever its your hardrive when you prompt frisk -l ("l" like in "lake" or "last"). So first, do next: i.e.: fdisk -l (then it will prompt the name of your hard drive) /dev/hardDriveName /dev/UsbName ---- So you have to write: cfdisk /dev/hardDriveName --- then and only then you can continue the tutorial (select Free Space...etc)

@@javideas Great job! Thanks for posting your solution btw. It's nice for others to have in case they run into a similar issue.

Haha!! Congrats! Glad you got things working. Make sure to smash that like button for me if you haven't already =)