Installing Arch using larch-8 from LiveCD to HD

Hi there,
as you can see from the subject, my problem is so, so easy... but really, I can't understand how to do it. What I supposed to do? Using larchin-archin? I can't find 'larchin' on my LiveCD, neither from terminal.
For the rest, my LiveCD distro works fine, really fine... I love it, I want it on my HD I can do whatever you want, I can format the whole disk, install arch and then copy all my folders from the CD, I really don't know: I read the documentation, I read topics on this forum... sorry for the newbieness of that question
Thank you in advance

Maybe you should read more carefully and slowly
Installation to hard disk
The larch hard-disk installer [b]larchin[/b] may be used to install Arch Linux to hard disk (or similar). ***+ Or, at least it will be possible to use it when I have updated (rewritten?) it for larch-8. -*** [b]larchin deals with partitioning and formatting of hard drives, placing Arch Linux (primarily a copy of the live system on which it is running) on the newly formatted partitions, and installation of a bootloader.[/b]
As mentioned above the main approach to Arch installation covered by larchin is to copy the contents of the live system to a hard drive. Those (few) bits peculiar to the needs of a live system are removed and the result is a completely normal Arch Linux installation. I should perhaps mention the file 'delarch' in the 'larch/data' directory on the boot medium). This script (if it exists) is run at the end of the installation and allows custom installation actions to be performed (the main reason for its existence is to allow features of the live system to be removed, because they would be out of place in a normal installation).
'Live' installation to hard disk
This is sometimes called a 'frugal' install and means that the system as it is (compressed, running in an aufs file-system) on the USB-stick or CD is installed as a live system to a hard-drive partition. This might be useful if you want to run from a flash device, for example, as it minimizes write operations to the device (normal access is read only). This is actually no different from copying a larch system to a USB-stick, so the normal copying procedure can be used.
You should see the config inside your profiles, also the overlay options before you can do an install to HDD.

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Today I finally succesfully created a LiveCD from a running Arch System. Because I want to migrate my installation to another partition and of course to check out whether the livecd is functional I tried to install my customized archlinux to hdd. Using larchin for that, I get the following error message after pressing the ok button:
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dr-xr-xr-x 3 root root 556 May 16 15:52 boot
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Can I ignore the above and continue modifying grub?
Thanks :-)
Last edited by valvet (2010-11-08 14:49:07)

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edit:
from the wiki
# fsck -f /dev/sda2fsck 1.40.8 (13-Mar-2008)
e2fsck 1.40.8 (13-Mar-2008)
Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
Pass 2: Checking directory structure
Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity
Pass 3A: Optimizing directories
Pass 4: Checking reference counts
Pass 5: Checking group summary information
/dev/sda2: ***** FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED *****
/dev/sda2: 243/78936 files (8.2% non-contiguous), 310519/314880 blocks
The first like should just be
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fdsik -l (GPT table format)
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Hi guys, I am new to archlinux. I installed archlinux x86_64 just yesterday and I like its customisability. I also like arch wiki. Nowhere else have I seen such extensive documentation, especially about things like HAL, UDEV etc. with proper instructions. Thanks to all archers.
I have installed Archlinux x86_64 in my Dell India Studio 1537 laptop along with Windows 7 Professional x64. Both the OSes boot in UEFI-GPT setup (my UEFI is tianocore.sourceforge.net EDK DUET UEFI64 firmware booting from USB). I boot Archlinux using my own compiled grub2-bzr compiled for both BIOS and UEFI-x64. I have a 1 MB BIOS Boot Partition as required by grub2 for BIOS-GPT booting. My Archlinux system can boot both from bios and from uefi, while Windows can boot only using UEFI.
The official Archlinux installation guide talks about only MBR (or msdos disklabel) partitions and booting from BIOS based systems. With 2TB drives becoming common place and UEFI being implemented (search for Phoenix SecureCore Tiano's 1 second POST operation), I think a proper wiki page describing differences between MBR and GPT, why GPT is better, how to setup arch to boot from GPT. Another page describing steps to setup arch to boot from UEFI (either as a separate page or as an extension of GRUB2 wiki page) is also needed.
Some details regarding Pure GPT (not a Hybrid GPT/MBR setup) and/or UEFI setups :-
Partitioning tools -
GNU Parted for filesystem related tasks
GPT fdisk tool - http://rodsbooks.com/gdisk/ , http://sourceforge.net/projects/gptfdisk/ , pacman -S gdisk (in extra repo) - for non-filesystem related tasks
util-linux-ng fdisk does not support GPT disks
Bootloader - GRUB2 - vanilla grub-legacy does not support GPT and does not support UEFI (Fedora's patched grub-legacy does support both GPT and UEFI) and syslinux does not support GPT (I may be wrong here - seems a gptmbr of syslinux does help in booting from gpt but not sure).
For GRUB2 - Need BIOS Boot Partition to embed GRUB2's core.img in GPT disks - size about 1 MB max - no filesystem
In GPT fdisk partition type code - EF02
In GNU Parted or GParted - bios_grub flag on
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CONFIG_EFI for UEFI support (for UEFI even above option required)
CONFIG_EFI_VARS for UEFI Runtime Variables support (optional)
Note: Although GPT is part of UEFI specification, a UEFI system is not needed to boot from/use GPT. BIOS based GPT booting is possible with GRUB2 or Fedora's patched grub-legacy (but not vanilla grub-legacy provided by archlinux). It is also possible to boot Linux in UEFI-MBR setup (again using grub2) but I have not tried it.
Even without UEFI and less than 2TB harddrives, GPT based partitioning has many advantages - secondary GPT header and Partition table, CRC32 checksums. Unique Disk GUID and Filesystem-independent Unique Partition GUIDs, multiple primary partitions (default is 128 partitions, but it can be changed). The only problamatic OS is Windows which does not allow GPT booing unless one has UEFI based system. It allows only UEFI-GPT or BIOS-MBR setups. In linux it just depends on how the bootloader is configured - not a problem with grub2.
I also propose that incase of Auto-prepare Hard Drive, the installer default to GPT for "archlinux only" installs ( ie no dual-boot or triple-boot etc.).
I did not use the official archlinux iso but used archboot 2010.04 R3 as it gave an option of installing to GPT and also provided GRUB2 during bootloader install. I have never edited any wiki page before, thats why I request some one else to start a wiki page with the information given above.
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Last edited by skodabenz (2011-01-30 19:32:48)

Welcome to arch, skodabenz! Offering documentation on third post - all thumbs up
You could start the wiki page in your user-space with what you have, and then invite others to join working on it. Just register a wiki account, navigate to the page you want to start, for example:
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I'm trying to install arch using only my hd, is this possible?
So far I made a small partition, put the install media on there using dd and tried to boot it using grub(v2).
I however, don't know anything about grub, and I didn't get it to boot, so how do I go about this?
Thanks a lot for your time!

In answer to the thread title (without regards to your post) Two techniques come to mind. Remove the drive, put it on another system, install Arch to the drive on that other system, and move the drive back. The other solution is to use a PXE environment (assuming your system can boot from a network), and set up a DHCP server and a TFTP server on another computer and boot as a thin client.
With regards to your post, how did you get grub and the iso image on to the drive without a usb or cd? Does grub come up at all? Or does the BIOS carp about not having a boot media? Is it a BIOS machine or EFI?

Install Arch Linux with UEFI and GPT

Hi, I purchased a new laptop and I created a partition with Windows 8 (default OS on laptop) and another partition where I want to install Arch Linux.
When I tried to install Arch Linux not boot from CD. After searching in Google I downloaded the latest Arch Linux ISO (2012-12-01) and tried again.
This time CD started without problems but when I used cfdisk showed an error with GPT partition. I went back to search in Google and I read about gdisk and gfdisk and I try it but when I partitioning to install Arch Linux partition show that may cause damage. I searched and searched without success and I wonder if there is a Arch Linux GPT install guide or if someone knows how to install Arch Linux with GPT and a Windows 8 partition in UEFI.
Thanks and regards.

Hi again, finally I got "install" Arch Linux but when I reboot the follow message appears:
"No Booteable Device, Hit any key."
I don't know if I broke Windows Boot Manager, UEFI or both...
I tried to reinstall GRUB but was unsuccessful.
Can anyone help me?
Thanks and regards.

[solved[KERNEL PANIC ARCH-3.4.4-2] can not boot Arch from liveCD (x64)

i have somes problems with several apps and want to fresh installed Arch.
my current file system:
i use: gpt, lvm2, luks, grub2.
/dev/sda1: bios partition
/dev/sda2: boot partition
/dev/sda3: lvm partition (var, usr, usr-local,....home...)
i keep partition structure (cause i want to keep home directory without damage, it's contain my data).
but when i try to boot from livecd to reinstall Arch, this proccess can't be done.
this is output:
mounting: /bootmnt/arch/any/repo-core-any-sys/....
mounting: /bootmnt/arch/x64/.....
I/O error on device sr0, logical block
buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block
SQUASHFS error: .....
end_request: I/O error, device sr0, sector ....
kernel panic_not syncing: attempted to kill init !
pid: 1 comm: init Not tainted 3.0 - ARCH #1
call trace:
[<fffffffffffffffff812ae6al] panic+0xa0/0x1ad
[<fffffffffffffffff...............] do_exit ...
[.....................................] do_group_exit ...
[.....................................] get_signal_to_diver....
and caps lock & scroll lock blink.
any ideas?
thanks for reply !
EDIT: i tested /dev/sr0 and the result:
sudo mount /dev/sr0 /mnt
mount: /dev/sr0 is write-protected, mounting read-only.
Last edited by angelfalls (2012-07-13 17:09:56)

Yeah that's what I meant. Try to burn a new cd at a slower speed. When the new one is done create a hashsum of the new burn and compare it to the iso you used to burn it with. I only say this because a few times in the past when I had sr0 errors while booting live cds it was because the disk was messed up and I had to burn it again.

How to install Arch from hard drive?

Hello
I have an old laptop - Pentium II 266 MHz, 128Mb RAM and I want to install Arch on it.
The problem is that there is no way to boot from this laptop -> floppy is broken, CD drive is not bootable, no available boot options from BIOS to boot from PXE or USB.
So, I found this link useful (but not enough).
I have done everything as described on the upper link, but on the final step 7 I don't know how to proceed.
What I have got is:
Arch installation CD is in the CD drive.
After loading vmlinuz26 and archiso.img (which is RAM Disk or initrd) it shows this message: "waiting 30 seconds for device /dev/disk/by-label/"
And another message: "ERROR: boot device didn't show up after 30 seconds" and after that it put me in the ramfs prompt.
I try this in ramfs prompt, but without success:
1. ln -s /dev/sr0 /dev/archiso
2. exit (and try again)
What I want is to tell the installer that it must proceed with the installation files on my CD drive.
But how to do that?
If it is not possible, then how could I install Arch on this old laptop? Is there any other methods to try?
PS: There is Windows 2000 and Windows 98 installed on this laptop, but I want to install Arch on it. The whole hard drive is one partition.
Last edited by clovenhoof (2011-08-09 06:49:48)

Try either of the following:
* Add archisolabel=LABEL to the kernel line in menu.lst, where LABEL is the filesystem label of the partition where the ISO resides.
* Add archisodevice=/dev/sdaX to the kernel line in menu.lst, where sdaX should be replaced with the partition where the ISO resides.
[Edit]
Hmmm, sorry I think I was wrong. With the above, you need also extract the ISO, put the arch/ directory at the root of the partition.
Alternatively, you can put the ISO to the root of that partition, and add img_dev=/dev/sdaX and img_loop=foo-bar.iso. For details, see:
https://projects.archlinux.org/archiso.git/tree/README
BUT even if it loads, I don't think you will be able to install Arch on the same partition since it's mounted readonly to /bootmnt, (unless, you explicitly add copytoram to the kernel line, in which case, everything is copied to RAM, but since the machine has got only 128MB of RAM, this is not gonna happen). So, you need to put the ISO (or the extracted squashfs images) to a different partition than your target installation partition...
There probably are other things I'm missing... Gotta say this sounds quite challenging.
[Edit2]
Bah! Try archisodevice=/dev/sr0 then!
Last edited by lolilolicon (2011-08-09 07:48:17)

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