[multi-booting] editing grub post-install

Hey everyone, i'm installing Arch as a tertiary OS on one drive (w/ XP and Ubuntu). In the installation i skipped writing the bootloader to the MBR as I don't want to lose boot data on the existing grub menu. I know I could manually edit them in later, but I think that may be too risky atm.
the arch installation is on partition on /dev/sda4, while ubuntu is sda3. In menu.lst, ubuntu is (hd0,2) and xp is (hd0,0). guesswork has led me to making arch (hd0,3) as I think they are supposed to go in left-right order on the disk.
So, I was thinking I can manually edit menu.lst to add an option for booting Arch:
title Arch Linux
root (hd0,3)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/sda4 ro
initrd /boot/kernel26.img
I tried removing /boot/ in the kernel and initrd paths, same error after selecting Arch Linux in grub on startup:
Error 15: File not found
Is my logic correct, am I missing something obvious, or something else?

Here is my /boot/grub/menu.lst and as you can see some are /boot/etc. and some are not:
# Config file for GRUB - The GNU GRand Unified Bootloader
# /boot/grub/menu.lst
# DEVICE NAME CONVERSIONS
# Old /dev DevFS Grub
# /dev/fd0 /dev/floppy/0 (fd0)
# /dev/hda /dev/discs/disc0/disc (hd0)
# /dev/hdb2 /dev/discs/disc1/part2 (hd1,1)
# /dev/hda3 /dev/discs/disc0/part3 (hd0,2)
# FRAMEBUFFER RESOLUTION SETTINGS
# +----------------------------------------+
# | 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024
# ----+-----------------------------------
# 256 | 0x301 0x303 0x305 0x307
# 32K | 0x310 0x313 0x316 0x319
# 64K | 0x311 0x314 0x317 0x31A
# 16M | 0x312 0x315 0x318 0x31B
# +----------------------------------------+
# general configuration:
timeout 10
default 0
color light-cyan/black white/blue
# boot sections follow
# each is implicitly numbered from 0 in the order of appearance below
# TIP: If you want a 1024x768 framebuffer, add "vga=773" to your kernel line.
# TIP: To use udev, add "devfs=nomount" to your kernel line.
title Arch Linux 64 bit (Default Linux Desktop)
root (hd0,4)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/sda5 ro vga=791
initrd /boot/kernel26.img
title Windows XP Professional
root (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1
title Debian 64 bit Linux (Etch)
root (hd0,6)
kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/hda7 ro vga=791
initrd /initrd.img
title Ubuntu 64 bit Linux (Hardy Heron)
root (hd0,7)
kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/sda8 ro vga=791 quiet splash
initrd /initrd.img
title Fedora 64 bit Linux (8.0)
root (hd0,8)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda9 ro vga=791 rhgb quiet
initrd /boot/initrd.img
title Mandriva 64 bit Linux (2008.0)
root (hd0,11)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-desktop root=/dev/hda12 ro vga=791 splash=silent
initrd /boot/initrd-desktop.img
title Mepis 64 bit Linux (7.0)
root (hd0,10)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda11 ro vga=791 splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img
title Suse 64 bit Linux (11.0)
root (hd0,14)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda15 vga=0x317 resume=/dev/sda3 splash=silent showopts
initrd /boot/initrd
title Sidux 64 bit Linux
root (hd0,12)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.21.3-slh64-smp-4 root=/dev/hda13 ro vga=788 quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.21.3-slh64-smp-4
title Dreamlinux 32 bit Linux (3.0-beta)
root (hd0,9)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.23.12-dream root=/dev/hda10 ro vga=791 quiet splash=silent
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.23.12-drem
#title Vector 64 bit Linux (5.9 Beta)
#root (hd0,9)
#kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/hda10 ro vga=791
#title Slackware 32 bit Linux (12.0)
#root (hd0,)
#kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda ro vga=791
title PCLinux OS 32 bit (2007)
root (hd0,13)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda14 ro vga=791
initrd /boot/initrd.img
#title Mint 32 bit Linux (4.0 fluxbox beta-028)
#root (hd0,)
#kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/hda ro quiet splash
#initrd /initrd.img
#title gOS 32 bit Linux (1.01)
#root (hd0,)
#kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/hda ro vga=791 quiet splash
#initrd /initrd.img
#title Elive 32 bit Linux (beta)
#root (hd0,12)
#kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/hda13 ro vga=788 quiet splash
#initrd /initrd.img
#title Geubuntu 32 bit linux (7.10)
#root (hd0,14)
#kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/hda15 ro quiet splash
#initrd /initrd.img
I play around with quite a few flavours of linux from time to time just to see if there are things I might like done differently on my Arch linux.

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cfr wrote:
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1. Defining usage:
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ttf-urdufonts 1.2-3
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atk 2.14.0-1
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ca-certificates-cacert 20140824-2
ca-certificates-mozilla 3.17.4-1
ca-certificates-utils 20140923-9
cairo 1.14.2-1
cairomm 1.10.0-3
cantarell-fonts 0.0.16-2
cdparanoia 10.2-5
cifs-utils 6.4-1
colord 1.2.9-1
compositeproto 0.4.2-3
coreutils 8.23-1
cracklib 2.9.1-1
cryptsetup 1.6.6-1
cups 2.0.2-1
cups-filters 1.0.67-1
curl 7.41.0-1
damageproto 1.2.1-3
db 5.3.28-2
dbus 1.8.16-2
dbus-glib 0.102-2
dconf 0.22.0-1
desktop-file-utils 0.22-1
device-mapper 2.02.116-1
dhclient 4.3.1-1
dhcpcd 6.7.1-1
dialog 1:1.2_20150225-1
diffutils 3.3-2
dropbox 3.2.9-2
e2fsprogs 1.42.12-2
elfutils 0.161-3
eog 3.14.3-1
epdfview 0.1.8-5
exempi 2.2.2-1
exo 0.10.4-1
expat 2.1.0-4
fakeroot 1.20.2-1
file 5.22-1
filesystem 2015.02-1
findutils 4.4.2-6
firefox 36.0.3-1
fixesproto 5.0-3
flac 1.3.1-1
flashplugin 11.2.202.451-1
flex 2.5.39-1
fontconfig 2.11.1-1
fontsproto 2.1.3-1
foomatic-db-engine 3:20150308-1
freetype2 2.5.5-1
fuse 2.9.3-2
galculator 2.1.3-3
gamin 0.1.10-8
garcon 0.4.0-1
gawk 4.1.1-1
gc 7.4.2-2
gcc 4.9.2-4
gcc-libs 4.9.2-4
gconf 3.2.6-3
gcr 3.14.0-1
gd 2.1.1-1
gdbm 1.11-1
gdk-pixbuf2 2.31.3-1
gettext 0.19.4-1
ghostscript 9.15-2
gksu 2.0.2-5
glib-networking 2.42.1-1
glib2 2.42.2-1
glibc 2.21-2
glibmm 2.42.0-1
glu 9.0.0-3
gmp 6.0.0-2
gnome-colors-icon-theme 5.5.1-2
gnome-desktop 1:3.14.2-1
gnome-icon-theme 3.12.0-2
gnome-icon-theme-symbolic 3.12.0-2
gnome-keyring 3.14.0-1
gnome-themes-standard 3.14.2.3-1
gnupg 2.1.2-1
gnutls 3.3.13-1
gobject-introspection 1.42.0-1
gpgme 1.5.3-1
gpm 1.20.7-4
graphite 1:1.2.4-1
grep 2.21-2
groff 1.22.3-2
grub 1:2.02.beta2-5
grub2-theme-archxion 1.0-6
gsettings-desktop-schemas 3.14.1-1
gstreamer0.10 0.10.36-4
gstreamer0.10-base 0.10.36-3
gstreamer0.10-base-plugins 0.10.36-3
gtk-update-icon-cache 2.24.27-1
gtk-xfce-engine 2.10.1-1
gtk2 2.24.27-1
gtk3 3.14.9-1
gtkmm3 3.14.0-1
gtksourceview2 2.10.5-3
guile 2.0.11-2
gvfs 1.22.3-2
gvfs-afc 1.22.3-2
gvfs-smb 1.22.3-2
gzip 1.6-1
harfbuzz 0.9.38-1
hicolor-icon-theme 0.13-1
hplip 3.15.2-3
hplip-plugin 3.15.2-1
hunspell 1.3.3-1
hwids 20150129-1
iana-etc 2.30-4
icu 54.1-1
inetutils 1.9.2-2
iniparser 3.1-4
inputproto 2.3.1-1
iproute2 3.19.0-1
iptables 1.4.21-1
iputils 20121221-3
ipw2100-fw 1.3-7
ipw2200-fw 3.1-5
iso-codes 3.57-1
jansson 2.7-1
jasper 1.900.1-13
jfsutils 1.1.15-4
js17 17.0.0-1
json-c 0.12-2
json-glib 1.0.2-1
kbd 2.0.2-1
kbproto 1.0.6-2
keyutils 1.5.9-1
kmod 20-1
krb5 1.13.1-1
lcms2 2.6-1
ldb 1.1.20-1
less 471-1
lib32-acl 2.2.52-2
lib32-attr 2.4.47-1
lib32-bzip2 1.0.6-2
lib32-curl 7.41.0-1
lib32-e2fsprogs 1.42.12-1
lib32-expat 2.1.0-2
lib32-fontconfig 2.11.1-1
lib32-freetype2 2.5.5-1
lib32-gcc-libs 4.9.2-4
lib32-gettext 0.19.4-1
lib32-glib2 2.42.2-1
lib32-glibc 2.21-2
lib32-glu 9.0.0-2
lib32-harfbuzz 0.9.38-1
lib32-icu 54.1-1
lib32-keyutils 1.5.9-1
lib32-krb5 1.13.1-1
lib32-libcap 2.24-1
lib32-libdbus 1.8.16-1
lib32-libffi 3.2.1-1
lib32-libgcrypt 1.6.3-1
lib32-libgpg-error 1.18-1
lib32-libice 1.0.9-1
lib32-libldap 2.4.40-1
lib32-libnl 3.2.25-1
lib32-libpcap 1.6.2-1
lib32-libpng 1.6.16-1
lib32-libsm 1.2.2-1
lib32-libssh2 1.4.3-2
lib32-libusb 1.0.19-1
lib32-libx11 1.6.3-1
lib32-libxau 1.0.8-1
lib32-libxcb 1.11-1
lib32-libxcursor 1.1.14-1
lib32-libxdamage 1.1.4-2
lib32-libxdmcp 1.1.1-2
lib32-libxext 1.3.3-1
lib32-libxfixes 5.0.1-1
lib32-libxi 1.7.4-1
lib32-libxml2 2.9.2-1
lib32-libxrandr 1.4.2-1
lib32-libxrender 0.9.8-1
lib32-ncurses 5.9-3
lib32-nvidia-340xx-libgl 340.76-1
lib32-nvidia-340xx-utils 340.76-1
lib32-openssl 1.0.2.a-1
lib32-pcre 8.36-1
lib32-readline 6.3.006-1
lib32-systemd 218-1
lib32-util-linux 2.25.2-1
lib32-xz 5.2.1-1
lib32-zlib 1.2.8-1
libaio 0.3.110-1
libarchive 3.1.2-8
libassuan 2.1.3-1
libasyncns 0.8-5
libatasmart 0.19-3
libatomic_ops 7.4.2-1
libbluray 0.7.0-1
libbsd 0.7.0-1
libburn 1.3.8-1
libcanberra 0.30-5
libcanberra-pulse 0.30-5
libcap 2.24-2
libcap-ng 0.7.4-1
libcddb 1.3.2-4
libcdio 0.93-1
libcdio-paranoia 10.2+0.93+1-1
libcroco 0.6.8-2
libcups 2.0.2-1
libdaemon 0.14-3
libdatrie 0.2.8-1
libdbus 1.8.16-2
libdrm 2.4.59-1
libedit 20141030_3.1-1
libepoxy 1.2-2
libevdev 1.4-1
libevent 2.0.22-1
libexif 0.6.21-2
libffi 3.2.1-1
libfontenc 1.1.2-1
libgcrypt 1.6.3-2
libgksu 2.0.12-6
libgnome-keyring 3.12.0-2
libgpg-error 1.18-1
libgphoto2 2.5.7-1
libgtop 2.30.0-1
libgusb 0.2.4-1
libice 1.0.9-1
libidn 1.30-1
libieee1284 0.2.11-5
libimobiledevice 1.2.0-1
libisofs 1.3.8-1
libjpeg-turbo 1.4.0-1
libkeybinder2 0.3.0-2
libksba 1.3.2-1
libldap 2.4.40-2
libmm-glib 1.4.4-1
libmpc 1.0.3-1
libndp 1.4-1
libnewt 0.52.17-2
libnl 3.2.25-1
libnm-glib 1.0.0-2
libnm-gtk 1.0.0-1
libnotify 0.7.6-1
libogg 1.3.2-1
libomxil-bellagio 0.9.3-1
libpaper 1.1.24-7
libpcap 1.6.2-1
libpciaccess 0.13.3-1
libpeas 1.12.1-1
libpipeline 1.4.0-1
libplist 1.12-1
libpng 1.6.16-1
libproxy 0.4.11-5
libpulse 6.0-1
librsvg 1:2.40.8-1
libsamplerate 0.1.8-3
libsasl 2.1.26-7
libseccomp 2.1.1-1
libsecret 0.18-1
libsigc++ 2.4.1-1
libsm 1.2.2-2
libsndfile 1.0.25-3
libsoup 2.48.1-1
libssh2 1.4.3-2
libsystemd 218-2
libtasn1 4.3-1
libteam 1.14-1
libthai 0.1.21-1
libtheora 1.1.1-3
libtiff 4.0.3-5
libtirpc 0.2.5-1
libtool 2.4.6-1
libtxc_dxtn 1.0.1-6
libunique 1.1.6-6
libunistring 0.9.5-1
libunwind 1.1-2
libusb 1.0.19-1
libusbmuxd 1.0.10-1
libutempter 1.1.6-2
libutil-linux 2.25.2-1
libvisual 0.4.0-5
libvorbis 1.3.4-1
libvpx 1.3.0-1
libwbclient 4.2.0-1
libwnck 2.31.0-1
libx11 1.6.3-1
libxau 1.0.8-2
libxaw 1.0.12-1
libxcb 1.11-1
libxcomposite 0.4.4-2
libxcursor 1.1.14-2
libxdamage 1.1.4-2
libxdmcp 1.1.1-2
libxext 1.3.3-1
libxfce4ui 4.12.1-1
libxfce4util 4.12.1-1
libxfixes 5.0.1-1
libxfont 1.5.1-1
libxft 2.3.2-1
libxi 1.7.4-1
libxinerama 1.1.3-2
libxkbcommon 0.5.0-1
libxkbcommon-x11 0.5.0-1
libxkbfile 1.0.8-2
libxklavier 5.4-1
libxml2 2.9.2-2
libxmu 1.1.2-1
libxpm 3.5.11-1
libxrandr 1.4.2-2
libxrender 0.9.8-1
libxres 1.0.7-1
libxshmfence 1.2-1
libxslt 1.1.28-3
libxt 1.1.4-1
libxtst 1.2.2-1
libxv 1.0.10-1
libxxf86vm 1.1.4-1
licenses 20140629-1
linux 3.19.2-1
linux-api-headers 3.18.5-1
linux-firmware 20150206.17657c3-1
llvm-libs 3.6.0-3
logrotate 3.8.9-1
lvm2 2.02.116-1
lz4 127-1
lzo 2.09-1
m4 1.4.17-1
make 4.1-1
man-db 2.7.1-1
man-pages 3.81-1
mcpp 2.7.2-5
mdadm 3.3.2-1
mesa 10.5.1-2
mime-types 9-1
mkinitcpio 18-2
mkinitcpio-busybox 1.21.1-2
mobile-broadband-provider-info 20120614-2
mousepad 0.4.0-1
mozilla-common 1.4-4
mpfr 3.1.2.p11-1
mtdev 1.1.5-1
nano 2.2.6-3
ncurses 5.9-7
net-snmp 5.7.3-1
net-tools 1.60.20130531git-1
netctl 1.10-1
nettle 2.7.1-1
network-manager-applet 1.0.0-1
networkmanager 1.0.0-2
npth 1.1-1
nspr 4.10.8-1
nss 3.17.4-1
ntfs-3g 2014.2.15-1
ntp 4.2.8.p1-1
nvidia-340xx 340.76-6
nvidia-340xx-libgl 340.76-2
nvidia-340xx-utils 340.76-2
openjpeg 1.5.2-1
openresolv 3.6.1-1
openssl 1.0.2.a-1
orc 0.4.23-1
os-prober 1.64-1
p11-kit 0.22.1-3
package-query 1.5-2
pacman 4.2.1-1
pacman-mirrorlist 20150315-1
pam 1.1.8-5
pambase 20130928-1
pango 1.36.8-1
pangomm 2.34.0-1
patch 2.7.5-1
pavucontrol 2.0-2
pciutils 3.3.0-1
pcmciautils 018-7
pcre 8.36-2
perl 5.20.2-1
perl-clone 0.37-2
perl-dbi 1.633-1
perl-xml-libxml 2.0117-1
perl-xml-namespacesupport 1.11-3
perl-xml-sax 0.99-4
perl-xml-sax-base 1.08-3
pinentry 0.9.0-1
pixman 0.32.6-1
pkg-config 0.28-2
polkit 0.112-2
polkit-gnome 0.105-2
poppler 0.31.0-1
poppler-glib 0.31.0-1
popt 1.16-7
ppp 2.4.7-1
procps-ng 3.3.10-1
psmisc 22.21-2
pth 2.0.7-5
python 3.4.3-1
python2 2.7.9-1
python2-xdg 0.25-2
qpdf 5.1.2-1
qt5-base 5.4.1-2
qt5-declarative 5.4.1-2
qt5-xmlpatterns 5.4.1-2
qtchooser 48-1
randrproto 1.4.1-1
readline 6.3.006-1
recordproto 1.14.2-2
reiserfsprogs 3.6.24-1
renderproto 0.11.1-3
rest 0.7.92-1
rp-pppoe 3.11-7
s-nail 14.7.11-1
samba 4.2.0-1
sane 1.0.24-4
sddm 0.11.0-1
sed 4.2.2-3
shadow 4.2.1-2
shared-mime-info 1.4-1
simple-scan 3.14.2-1
slang 2.3.0-1
smbclient 4.2.0-1
sound-theme-freedesktop 0.8-2
sqlite 3.8.8.3-1
startup-notification 0.12-4
sudo 1.8.12-1
sysfsutils 2.1.0-9
systemd 218-2
systemd-sysvcompat 218-2
talloc 2.1.1-1
tar 1.28-1
tdb 1.3.4-1
tevent 0.9.24-1
texinfo 5.2-3
thin-provisioning-tools 0.4.1-1
thunar 1.6.6-1
thunar-volman 0.8.1-1
thunderbird 31.5.0-1
ttf-dejavu 2.34-2
ttf-ms-fonts 2.0-10
ttf-urdufonts 1.2-3
tumbler 0.1.31-1
tzdata 2015a-1
udisks2 2.1.5-1
upower 0.99.2-2
usbmuxd 1.1.0-2
usbutils 008-1
util-linux 2.25.2-1
v4l-utils 1.6.2-1
vi 1:050325-4
videoproto 2.3.2-1
vte 0.28.2-5
vte-common 0.38.3-1
wayland 1.7.0-1
wget 1.16.3-1
which 2.20-7
wine 1.7.39-1
wine-mono 4.5.6-1
wine_gecko 2.36-1
wpa_supplicant 2.3-1
xbitmaps 1.1.1-3
xcb-proto 1.11-1
xcb-util 0.4.0-1
xcb-util-image 0.4.0-1
xcb-util-keysyms 0.4.0-1
xcb-util-wm 0.4.1-1
xdg-user-dirs 0.15-1
xdg-utils 1.1.0.git20150302-1
xextproto 7.3.0-1
xf86-input-evdev 2.9.1-1
xf86-input-keyboard 1.8.0-3
xf86-input-mouse 1.9.1-1
xf86-input-synaptics 1.8.1-1
xf86vidmodeproto 2.3.1-3
xfburn 0.5.2-2
xfce4-appfinder 4.12.0-1
xfce4-mixer 4.11.0-2
xfce4-panel 4.12.0-1
xfce4-power-manager 1.4.3-1
xfce4-session 4.12.1-1
xfce4-settings 4.12.0-3
xfce4-terminal 0.6.3-2
xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin 1.5.0-2
xfconf 4.12.0-1
xfdesktop 4.12.0-1
xfsprogs 3.2.2-1
xfwm4 4.12.2-1
xfwm4-themes 4.10.0-2
xineramaproto 1.2.1-3
xkeyboard-config 2.14-1
xorg-bdftopcf 1.0.5-1
xorg-font-util 1.3.1-1
xorg-font-utils 7.6-4
xorg-fonts-alias 1.0.3-1
xorg-fonts-encodings 1.0.4-4
xorg-fonts-misc 1.0.3-3
xorg-iceauth 1.0.7-1
xorg-luit 1.1.1-2
xorg-mkfontdir 1.0.7-2
xorg-mkfontscale 1.1.2-1
xorg-server 1.17.1-4
xorg-server-common 1.17.1-4
xorg-server-utils 7.6-4
xorg-sessreg 1.1.0-1
xorg-setxkbmap 1.3.0-2
xorg-xauth 1.0.9-1
xorg-xbacklight 1.2.1-1
xorg-xcmsdb 1.0.4-2
xorg-xgamma 1.0.5-2
xorg-xhost 1.0.6-1
xorg-xinit 1.3.4-2
xorg-xinput 1.6.1-1
xorg-xkbcomp 1.3.0-1
xorg-xmodmap 1.0.8-1
xorg-xrandr 1.4.3-1
xorg-xrdb 1.1.0-1
xorg-xrefresh 1.0.5-1
xorg-xset 1.2.3-1
xorg-xsetroot 1.1.1-2
xproto 7.0.27-1
xterm 316-1
xz 5.2.1-1
yajl 2.1.0-1
yaourt 1.5-1
zd1211-firmware 1.5-1
zlib 1.2.8-3
4. Output from Slithery's script
clear; echo -n "Number of installed packages: $(pacman -Qq | wc -l)"; echo; echo; echo "# Packages in base group that aren't installed"; comm -23 <((for i in $(pacman -Sqg base); do pactree -us $i; done)|sort -u|cut -d ' ' -f 1) <(pacman -Qq); echo; echo "# Packages installed that aren't in base group"; comm -13 <((for i in $(pacman -Sqg base); do pactree -us $i; done)|sort -u|cut -d ' ' -f 1) <(pacman -Qq); echo; echo "# pstree"; pstree -U; echo; echo "# enabled services"; systemctl list-unit-files | grep enabled | grep service; echo; echo "# ssd df"; df -h -t ext4; echo; echo "# free"; free -m; echo
Note: Some information produced above will be repeaeted
[H[2JNumber of installed packages: 539
# Packages in base group that aren't installed
# Packages installed that aren't in base group
adwaita-icon-theme
alsa-lib
alsa-utils
at-spi2-atk
at-spi2-core
atk
atkmm
autoconf
automake
avahi
b43-fwcutter
bash-completion
bc
binutils
bison
btrfs-progs
cairo
cairomm
cantarell-fonts
cdparanoia
cifs-utils
colord
compositeproto
cups
cups-filters
damageproto
dbus-glib
dconf
desktop-file-utils
dhclient
dialog
dropbox
elfutils
eog
epdfview
exempi
exo
fakeroot
firefox
fixesproto
flac
flashplugin
flex
fontconfig
fontsproto
foomatic-db-engine
freetype2
fuse
galculator
gamin
garcon
gc
gcc
gconf
gcr
gd
gdk-pixbuf2
ghostscript
gksu
glib-networking
glibmm
glu
gnome-colors-icon-theme
gnome-desktop
gnome-icon-theme
gnome-icon-theme-symbolic
gnome-keyring
gnome-themes-standard
gobject-introspection
gpm
graphite
grub
grub2-theme-archxion
gsettings-desktop-schemas
gstreamer0.10
gstreamer0.10-base
gstreamer0.10-base-plugins
gtk-update-icon-cache
gtk-xfce-engine
gtk2
gtk3
gtkmm3
gtksourceview2
guile
gvfs
gvfs-afc
gvfs-smb
harfbuzz
hicolor-icon-theme
hplip
hplip-plugin
hunspell
icu
iniparser
inputproto
ipw2100-fw
ipw2200-fw
iso-codes
jansson
jasper
js17
json-c
json-glib
kbproto
lcms2
ldb
lib32-acl
lib32-attr
lib32-bzip2
lib32-curl
lib32-e2fsprogs
lib32-expat
lib32-fontconfig
lib32-freetype2
lib32-gcc-libs
lib32-gettext
lib32-glib2
lib32-glibc
lib32-glu
lib32-harfbuzz
lib32-icu
lib32-keyutils
lib32-krb5
lib32-libcap
lib32-libdbus
lib32-libffi
lib32-libgcrypt
lib32-libgpg-error
lib32-libice
lib32-libldap
lib32-libnl
lib32-libpcap
lib32-libpng
lib32-libsm
lib32-libssh2
lib32-libusb
lib32-libx11
lib32-libxau
lib32-libxcb
lib32-libxcursor
lib32-libxdamage
lib32-libxdmcp
lib32-libxext
lib32-libxfixes
lib32-libxi
lib32-libxml2
lib32-libxrandr
lib32-libxrender
lib32-ncurses
lib32-nvidia-340xx-libgl
lib32-nvidia-340xx-utils
lib32-openssl
lib32-pcre
lib32-readline
lib32-systemd
lib32-util-linux
lib32-xz
lib32-zlib
libasyncns
libatasmart
libatomic_ops
libbluray
libbsd
libburn
libcanberra
libcanberra-pulse
libcap-ng
libcddb
libcdio
libcdio-paranoia
libcroco
libcups
libdaemon
libdatrie
libdrm
libedit
libepoxy
libevdev
libevent
libexif
libfontenc
libgksu
libgnome-keyring
libgphoto2
libgtop
libgusb
libice
libieee1284
libimobiledevice
libisofs
libjpeg-turbo
libkeybinder2
libmm-glib
libmpc
libndp
libnewt
libnl
libnm-glib
libnm-gtk
libnotify
libogg
libomxil-bellagio
libpaper
libpcap
libpciaccess
libpeas
libplist
libpng
libproxy
libpulse
librsvg
libsamplerate
libsecret
libsigc++
libsm
libsndfile
libsoup
libteam
libthai
libtheora
libtiff
libtool
libtxc_dxtn
libunique
libunwind
libusbmuxd
libutempter
libvisual
libvorbis
libvpx
libwbclient
libwnck
libx11
libxau
libxaw
libxcb
libxcomposite
libxcursor
libxdamage
libxdmcp
libxext
libxfce4ui
libxfce4util
libxfixes
libxfont
libxft
libxi
libxinerama
libxkbcommon
libxkbcommon-x11
libxkbfile
libxklavier
libxml2
libxmu
libxpm
libxrandr
libxrender
libxres
libxshmfence
libxslt
libxt
libxtst
libxv
libxxf86vm
llvm-libs
m4
make
mcpp
mesa
mime-types
mobile-broadband-provider-info
mousepad
mozilla-common
mtdev
net-snmp
net-tools
network-manager-applet
networkmanager
nspr
nss
ntfs-3g
ntp
nvidia-340xx
nvidia-340xx-libgl
nvidia-340xx-utils
openjpeg
orc
os-prober
package-query
pango
pangomm
patch
pavucontrol
perl-clone
perl-dbi
perl-xml-libxml
perl-xml-namespacesupport
perl-xml-sax
perl-xml-sax-base
pixman
pkg-config
polkit
polkit-gnome
poppler
poppler-glib
ppp
python
python2
python2-xdg
qpdf
qt5-base
qt5-declarative
qt5-xmlpatterns
qtchooser
randrproto
recordproto
renderproto
rest
rp-pppoe
samba
sane
sddm
shared-mime-info
simple-scan
slang
smbclient
sound-theme-freedesktop
sqlite
startup-notification
sudo
talloc
tdb
tevent
thunar
thunar-volman
thunderbird
ttf-dejavu
ttf-ms-fonts
ttf-urdufonts
tumbler
udisks2
upower
usbmuxd
v4l-utils
videoproto
vte
vte-common
wayland
wget
wine
wine-mono
wine_gecko
wpa_supplicant
xbitmaps
xcb-proto
xcb-util
xcb-util-image
xcb-util-keysyms
xcb-util-wm
xdg-user-dirs
xdg-utils
xextproto
xf86-input-evdev
xf86-input-keyboard
xf86-input-mouse
xf86-input-synaptics
xf86vidmodeproto
xfburn
xfce4-appfinder
xfce4-mixer
xfce4-panel
xfce4-power-manager
xfce4-session
xfce4-settings
xfce4-terminal
xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin
xfconf
xfdesktop
xfwm4
xfwm4-themes
xineramaproto
xkeyboard-config
xorg-bdftopcf
xorg-font-util
xorg-font-utils
xorg-fonts-alias
xorg-fonts-encodings
xorg-fonts-misc
xorg-iceauth
xorg-luit
xorg-mkfontdir
xorg-mkfontscale
xorg-server
xorg-server-common
xorg-server-utils
xorg-sessreg
xorg-setxkbmap
xorg-xauth
xorg-xbacklight
xorg-xcmsdb
xorg-xgamma
xorg-xhost
xorg-xinit
xorg-xinput
xorg-xkbcomp
xorg-xmodmap
xorg-xrandr
xorg-xrdb
xorg-xrefresh
xorg-xset
xorg-xsetroot
xproto
xterm
yajl
yaourt
zd1211-firmware
# pstree
systemd─┬─NetworkManager─┬─dhclient
│ ├─{NetworkManager}
│ ├─{gdbus}
│ └─{gmain}
├─Thunar─┬─{gdbus}
│ └─{gmain}
├─at-spi-bus-laun─┬─dbus-daemon
│ ├─{dconf worker}
│ ├─{gdbus}
│ └─{gmain}
├─at-spi2-registr───{gdbus}
├─avahi-daemon───avahi-daemon
├─colord─┬─{gdbus}
│ └─{gmain}
├─cupsd
├─3*[dbus-daemon]
├─2*[dbus-launch]
├─dconf-service─┬─{gdbus}
│ └─{gmain}
├─firefox─┬─6*[{Analysis Helper}]
│ ├─{Cache I/O}
│ ├─{Cache2 I/O}
│ ├─{Cert Verify}
│ ├─{Compositor}
│ ├─{DNS Resolver #7}
│ ├─{DNS Resolver #9}
│ ├─{DNS Res~ver #10}
│ ├─3*[{DOM Worker}]
│ ├─{GMPThread}
│ ├─{Gecko_IOThread}
│ ├─{HTML5 Parser}
│ ├─{Hang Monitor}
│ ├─{IPDL Background}
│ ├─{Image Scaler}
│ ├─{ImageBridgeChil}
│ ├─{JS Watchdog}
│ ├─{MediaManager}
│ ├─{Net Predictor}
│ ├─{Proxy R~olution}
│ ├─{Socket Thread}
│ ├─{Timer}
│ ├─{URL Classifier}
│ ├─{dconf worker}
│ ├─3*[{firefox}]
│ ├─{gdbus}
│ ├─{gmain}
│ ├─{localStorage DB}
│ ├─{mozStorage #10}
│ ├─{mozStorage #1}
│ ├─{mozStorage #2}
│ ├─{mozStorage #3}
│ ├─{mozStorage #4}
│ ├─{mozStorage #5}
│ ├─{mozStorage #6}
│ ├─{mozStorage #7}
│ ├─{mozStorage #8}
│ └─{mozStorage #9}
├─gnome-keyring-d─┬─{dconf worker}
│ ├─{gdbus}
│ ├─{gmain}
│ └─{timer}
├─gpg-agent
├─gvfs-afc-volume─┬─{gdbus}
│ └─{gvfs-afc-volume}
├─gvfs-udisks2-vo─┬─{gdbus}
│ └─{gmain}
├─gvfsd───{gdbus}
├─gvfsd-fuse─┬─{gdbus}
│ ├─{gvfs-fuse-sub}
│ └─2*[{gvfsd-fuse}]
├─gvfsd-metadata───{gdbus}
├─gvfsd-trash─┬─{gdbus}
│ └─{gmain}
├─polkitd─┬─{JS GC Helper}
│ ├─{JS Sour~ Thread}
│ ├─{gdbus}
│ ├─{gmain}
│ └─{runaway-killer-}
├─sddm─┬─Xorg
│ ├─sddm-helper─┬─sh───xfce4-session─┬─dropbox─┬─{QXcbEventReader}
│ │ │ │ └─24*[{dropbox}]
│ │ │ ├─nm-applet─┬─{dconf worker}
│ │ │ │ ├─{gdbus}
│ │ │ │ └─{gmain}
│ │ │ ├─polkit-gnome-au───{gdbus}
│ │ │ ├─{gdbus}
│ │ │ └─{gmain}
│ │ └─{QProcessManager}
│ └─{QProcessManager}
├─2*[systemd───(sd-pam)]
├─systemd-journal
├─systemd-logind
├─systemd-udevd───systemd-udevd
├─thunderbird─┬─2*[{Analysis Helper}]
│ ├─{Cache I/O}
│ ├─{Cache2 I/O}
│ ├─{Cert Verify}
│ ├─{DOM Worker}
│ ├─{Gecko_IOThread}
│ ├─{HTML5 Parser}
│ ├─{Hang Monitor}
│ ├─{JS GC Helper}
│ ├─{JS Watchdog}
│ ├─{Network Seer}
│ ├─{Proxy R~olution}
│ ├─{Socket Thread}
│ ├─{Timer}
│ ├─{URL Classifier}
│ ├─{dconf worker}
│ ├─{gdbus}
│ ├─{gmain}
│ ├─{localStorage DB}
│ ├─{mozStorage #1}
│ ├─{mozStorage #2}
│ ├─{mozStorage #3}
│ ├─{mozStorage #4}
│ ├─{mozStorage #5}
│ ├─{mozStorage #6}
│ └─8*[{thunderbird}]
├─tumblerd─┬─{gdbus}
│ ├─{gmain}
│ └─2*[{pool}]
├─udisksd─┬─{cleanup}
│ ├─{gdbus}
│ ├─{gmain}
│ └─{probing-thread}
├─upowerd─┬─{gdbus}
│ └─{gmain}
├─wpa_supplicant
├─xfce4-panel─┬─panel-1-whisker─┬─{gdbus}
│ │ └─{gmain}
│ ├─panel-12-mixer─┬─{gdbus}
│ │ ├─{task0}
│ │ ├─{task1}
│ │ └─{task2}
│ ├─panel-2-actions
│ ├─panel-6-systray
│ ├─{gdbus}
│ └─{gmain}
├─xfce4-power-man───{gdbus}
├─xfce4-terminal─┬─bash───bash───pstree
│ ├─gnome-pty-helpe
│ ├─{gdbus}
│ └─{gmain}
├─xfconfd
├─xfdesktop─┬─{gdbus}
│ └─{gmain}
├─xfsettingsd─┬─{gdbus}
│ └─{gmain}
└─xfwm4
# enabled services
dbus-org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.service enabled
dbus-org.freedesktop.nm-dispatcher.service enabled
display-manager.service enabled
[email protected] enabled
NetworkManager-dispatcher.service enabled
NetworkManager.service enabled
org.cups.cupsd.service enabled
sddm.service enabled
# ssd df
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2 8.8G 4.8G 3.5G 58% /
/dev/sda4 63G 12G 48G 20% /home
# free
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 2948 985 805 8 1157 1743
Swap: 2047 0 2047
5. Packages removable IMO
More could be possible based on suggestions, but IMHO and is it safe?:
|Package Name | Reason |
|---------------------------|--------------------------------------------------------------
|man-db 2.7.1-1 | For me: Wiki, Google and Forums are > what I need. |
|man-pages 3.81-1 | For me: Wiki, Google and Forums are > what I need. |
|xterm | xfce4-terminal is installed so is it needed? |
|reiserfsprogs | No need for reiser FS support (if it is what package does). |
|jfsutils | No need for JFS support. |
|xfsprogs | No need for XFS support. |
|lvm2 | I think no need for logical VM (but not sure). |
|mdadm | I think no need for md devices monitoring/managing. ]
|---------------------------|--------------------------------------------------------------
|xfwm4-themes | No big fan of theming unless required for XFCE. |
|btrfs-progs | No need for btrfs support (if it is what package does). |
|ipw2100-fw | No need for Intel centrino drivers. |
|ipw2200-fw | No need for Intel PRO/wireless. |
|zd1211-firmware | I think no need for in-kernel26 zd1211rw wireless driver. |
6. Please guide what further can be removed.
Thank you for time.
Update: Del packages are already removed based on learning/thread discussion so far.
Last edited by jackpot (2015-03-25 14:31:31)

An update
I managed to reach:
pacman -Q | wc -l
475
From 536, more may be possible but need to learn a bit more. Packages installed now include:
acl 2.2.52-2
adwaita-icon-theme 3.14.1-1
alsa-lib 1.0.29-1
alsa-utils 1.0.29-1
archlinux-keyring 20150212-1
at-spi2-atk 2.14.1-1
at-spi2-core 2.14.1-1
atk 2.14.0-1
attr 2.4.47-1
avahi 0.6.31-14
bash 4.3.033-1
bc 1.06.95-1
binutils 2.25-2
bleachbit 1.6-1
bzip2 1.0.6-5
ca-certificates 20140923-9
ca-certificates-cacert 20140824-2
ca-certificates-mozilla 3.17.4-1
ca-certificates-utils 20140923-9
cairo 1.14.2-1
cantarell-fonts 0.0.16-2
cdparanoia 10.2-5
cifs-utils 6.4-1
colord 1.2.9-1
compositeproto 0.4.2-3
coreutils 8.23-1
cracklib 2.9.1-1
cups 2.0.2-3
cups-filters 1.0.67-1
curl 7.41.0-1
damageproto 1.2.1-3
db 5.3.28-2
dbus 1.8.16-2
dbus-glib 0.102-2
dconf 0.22.0-1
desktop-file-utils 0.22-1
device-mapper 2.02.116-1
dhclient 4.3.1-1
dhcpcd 6.7.1-1
diffutils 3.3-2
dropbox 3.2.9-2
e2fsprogs 1.42.12-2
elfutils 0.161-3
eog 3.14.3-1
epdfview 0.1.8-5
exempi 2.2.2-1
exo 0.10.4-2
expat 2.1.0-4
fakeroot 1.20.2-1
file 5.22-1
file-roller 3.14.2-2
filesystem 2015.02-1
findutils 4.4.2-6
firefox 36.0.4-1
fixesproto 5.0-3
flac 1.3.1-1
fontconfig 2.11.1-1
fontsproto 2.1.3-1
foomatic-db-engine 3:20150308-1
freetype2 2.5.5-1
fuse 2.9.3-2
galculator 2.1.3-3
gamin 0.1.10-8
garcon 0.4.0-1
gawk 4.1.1-1
gc 7.4.2-2
gcc 4.9.2-4
gcc-libs 4.9.2-4
gd 2.1.1-1
gdbm 1.11-1
gdk-pixbuf2 2.31.3-1
gettext 0.19.4-1
ghostscript 9.15-2
glib-networking 2.42.1-1
glib2 2.42.2-1
glibc 2.21-2
glu 9.0.0-3
gmp 6.0.0-2
gnome-desktop 1:3.14.2-1
gnome-icon-theme 3.12.0-2
gnome-icon-theme-symbolic 3.12.0-2
gnome-themes-standard 3.14.2.3-1
gnupg 2.1.2-1
gnutls 3.3.13-1
gobject-introspection 1.42.0-1
gpgme 1.5.3-1
gpm 1.20.7-4
graphite 1:1.2.4-1
grep 2.21-2
groff 1.22.3-2
grub 1:2.02.beta2-5
gsettings-desktop-schemas 3.14.1-1
gstreamer0.10 0.10.36-4
gstreamer0.10-base 0.10.36-3
gstreamer0.10-base-plugins 0.10.36-3
gtk-update-icon-cache 2.24.27-1
gtk-xfce-engine 2.10.1-1
gtk2 2.24.27-1
gtk3 3.14.9-1
gtksourceview2 2.10.5-3
guile 2.0.11-2
gvfs 1.22.3-2
gzip 1.6-1
harfbuzz 0.9.38-1
hicolor-icon-theme 0.13-1
hplip 3.15.2-3
hplip-plugin 3.15.2-1
hunspell 1.3.3-1
hwids 20150129-1
iana-etc 2.30-4
icu 54.1-1
inetutils 1.9.2-2
iniparser 3.1-4
inputproto 2.3.1-1
iproute2 3.19.0-1
iptables 1.4.21-1
iputils 20121221-3
iso-codes 3.57-1
jansson 2.7-1
jasper 1.900.1-13
js17 17.0.0-1
json-glib 1.0.2-1
kbd 2.0.2-1
kbproto 1.0.6-2
keyutils 1.5.9-1
kmod 20-1
krb5 1.13.1-1
lcms2 2.6-1
ldb 1.1.20-1
less 471-1
lib32-acl 2.2.52-2
lib32-attr 2.4.47-1
lib32-bzip2 1.0.6-2
lib32-curl 7.41.0-1
lib32-e2fsprogs 1.42.12-1
lib32-expat 2.1.0-2
lib32-fontconfig 2.11.1-1
lib32-freetype2 2.5.5-1
lib32-gcc-libs 4.9.2-4
lib32-gettext 0.19.4-1
lib32-glib2 2.42.2-1
lib32-glibc 2.21-2
lib32-glu 9.0.0-2
lib32-harfbuzz 0.9.38-1
lib32-icu 54.1-1
lib32-keyutils 1.5.9-1
lib32-krb5 1.13.1-1
lib32-libcap 2.24-1
lib32-libdbus 1.8.16-1
lib32-libffi 3.2.1-1
lib32-libgcrypt 1.6.3-1
lib32-libgpg-error 1.18-1
lib32-libice 1.0.9-1
lib32-libldap 2.4.40-1
lib32-libnl 3.2.25-1
lib32-libpcap 1.6.2-1
lib32-libpng 1.6.16-1
lib32-libsm 1.2.2-1
lib32-libssh2 1.4.3-2
lib32-libusb 1.0.19-1
lib32-libx11 1.6.3-1
lib32-libxau 1.0.8-1
lib32-libxcb 1.11-1
lib32-libxcursor 1.1.14-1
lib32-libxdamage 1.1.4-2
lib32-libxdmcp 1.1.1-2
lib32-libxext 1.3.3-1
lib32-libxfixes 5.0.1-1
lib32-libxi 1.7.4-1
lib32-libxml2 2.9.2-1
lib32-libxrandr 1.4.2-1
lib32-libxrender 0.9.8-1
lib32-ncurses 5.9-3
lib32-nvidia-340xx-libgl 340.76-1
lib32-nvidia-340xx-utils 340.76-1
lib32-openssl 1.0.2.a-1
lib32-pcre 8.36-1
lib32-readline 6.3.006-1
lib32-systemd 218-1
lib32-util-linux 2.25.2-1
lib32-xz 5.2.1-1
lib32-zlib 1.2.8-1
libaio 0.3.110-1
libarchive 3.1.2-8
libassuan 2.1.3-1
libatasmart 0.19-3
libatomic_ops 7.4.2-1
libbluray 0.7.0-1
libbsd 0.7.0-1
libcap 2.24-2
libcap-ng 0.7.4-1
libcddb 1.3.2-4
libcdio 0.93-1
libcdio-paranoia 10.2+0.93+1-1
libcroco 0.6.8-2
libcups 2.0.2-3
libdaemon 0.14-3
libdatrie 0.2.8-1
libdbus 1.8.16-2
libdrm 2.4.60-1
libedit 20141030_3.1-1
libepoxy 1.2-2
libevdev 1.4-1
libevent 2.0.22-1
libexif 0.6.21-2
libffi 3.2.1-1
libfontenc 1.1.2-1
libgcrypt 1.6.3-2
libglade 2.6.4-5
libgpg-error 1.18-1
libgphoto2 2.5.7-1
libgusb 0.2.4-1
libice 1.0.9-1
libidn 1.30-1
libieee1284 0.2.11-5
libimobiledevice 1.2.0-1
libjpeg-turbo 1.4.0-1
libkeybinder2 0.3.0-2
libksba 1.3.2-1
libldap 2.4.40-2
libmm-glib 1.4.4-1
libmpc 1.0.3-1
libndp 1.4-1
libnewt 0.52.17-2
libnl 3.2.25-1
libnm-glib 1.0.0-2
libnm-gtk 1.0.0-1
libnotify 0.7.6-1
libogg 1.3.2-1
libomxil-bellagio 0.9.3-1
libpaper 1.1.24-7
libpcap 1.6.2-1
libpciaccess 0.13.3-1
libpeas 1.12.1-1
libpipeline 1.4.0-1
libplist 1.12-1
libpng 1.6.16-1
libproxy 0.4.11-5
librsvg 1:2.40.8-1
libsamplerate 0.1.8-3
libsasl 2.1.26-7
libseccomp 2.1.1-1
libsecret 0.18-1
libsm 1.2.2-2
libsndfile 1.0.25-3
libsoup 2.48.1-1
libssh2 1.4.3-2
libsystemd 218-2
libtasn1 4.3-1
libteam 1.14-1
libthai 0.1.21-1
libtheora 1.1.1-3
libtiff 4.0.3-5
libtirpc 0.2.5-1
libtool 2.4.6-1
libtxc_dxtn 1.0.1-6
libunique 1.1.6-6
libunistring 0.9.5-1
libunwind 1.1-2
libusb 1.0.19-1
libusbmuxd 1.0.10-1
libutil-linux 2.26.1-3
libvisual 0.4.0-5
libvorbis 1.3.4-1
libvpx 1.3.0-1
libwbclient 4.2.0-1
libwnck 2.31.0-1
libx11 1.6.3-1
libxau 1.0.8-2
libxcb 1.11-1
libxcomposite 0.4.4-2
libxcursor 1.1.14-2
libxdamage 1.1.4-2
libxdmcp 1.1.2-1
libxext 1.3.3-1
libxfce4ui 4.12.1-1
libxfce4util 4.12.1-1
libxfixes 5.0.1-1
libxfont 1.5.1-1
libxft 2.3.2-1
libxi 1.7.4-1
libxinerama 1.1.3-2
libxkbcommon 0.5.0-1
libxkbfile 1.0.8-2
libxklavier 5.4-1
libxml2 2.9.2-2
libxmu 1.1.2-1
libxpm 3.5.11-1
libxrandr 1.4.2-2
libxrender 0.9.8-1
libxres 1.0.7-1
libxshmfence 1.2-1
libxslt 1.1.28-3
libxt 1.1.4-1
libxtst 1.2.2-1
libxv 1.0.10-1
libxxf86vm 1.1.4-1
linux 3.19.2-1
linux-api-headers 3.18.5-1
linux-firmware 20150206.17657c3-1
llvm-libs 3.6.0-3
logrotate 3.8.9-1
lxdm 0.5.0-4
lz4 127-1
lzo 2.09-1
make 4.1-1
man-db 2.7.1-1
man-pages 3.81-1
mcpp 2.7.2-5
mesa 10.5.1-2
mime-types 9-1
mkinitcpio 18-2
mkinitcpio-busybox 1.21.1-2
mobile-broadband-provider-info 20120614-2
mousepad 0.4.0-1
mozilla-common 1.4-4
mpfr 3.1.2.p11-1
mtdev 1.1.5-1
nano 2.2.6-3
ncurses 5.9-7
net-snmp 5.7.3-1
netctl 1.10-1
nettle 2.7.1-1
network-manager-applet 1.0.0-1
networkmanager 1.0.0-2
npth 1.1-1
nspr 4.10.8-1
nss 3.17.4-1
ntfs-3g 2014.2.15-1
ntp 4.2.8.p1-1
nvidia-340xx 340.76-6
nvidia-340xx-libgl 340.76-2
nvidia-340xx-utils 340.76-2
openjpeg 1.5.2-1
openresolv 3.6.1-1
openssl 1.0.2.a-1
orc 0.4.23-1
os-prober 1.64-1
p11-kit 0.22.1-3
p7zip 9.38.1-1
package-query 1.5-2
pacman 4.2.1-1
pacman-mirrorlist 20150315-1
pam 1.1.8-5
pambase 20130928-1
pango 1.36.8-1
pciutils 3.3.0-1
pcmciautils 018-7
pcre 8.36-2
perl 5.20.2-1
perl-clone 0.37-2
perl-dbi 1.633-1
perl-xml-libxml 2.0117-1
perl-xml-namespacesupport 1.11-3
perl-xml-sax 0.99-4
perl-xml-sax-base 1.08-3
pinentry 0.9.0-1
pixman 0.32.6-1
polkit 0.112-2
polkit-gnome 0.105-2
poppler 0.31.0-1
poppler-glib 0.31.0-1
popt 1.16-7
procps-ng 3.3.10-1
psmisc 22.21-2
pth 2.0.7-5
pygobject2-devel 2.28.6-11
pygtk 2.24.0-5
python 3.4.3-1
python2 2.7.9-1
python2-cairo 1.10.0-2
python2-gobject2 2.28.6-11
qpdf 5.1.2-1
randrproto 1.4.1-1
readline 6.3.006-1
recordproto 1.14.2-2
renderproto 0.11.1-3
rest 0.7.92-1
samba 4.2.0-1
sane 1.0.24-4
sed 4.2.2-3
shadow 4.2.1-3
shared-mime-info 1.4-1
simple-scan 3.14.2-1
slang 2.3.0-1
smbclient 4.2.0-1
sqlite 3.8.8.3-1
startup-notification 0.12-4
sudo 1.8.12-1
sysfsutils 2.1.0-9
systemd 218-2
systemd-sysvcompat 218-2
talloc 2.1.1-1
tar 1.28-1
tdb 1.3.4-1
tevent 0.9.24-1
texinfo 5.2-3
thunar 1.6.6-1
thunar-archive-plugin 0.3.1-5
thunar-volman 0.8.1-1
thunderbird 31.5.0-1
ttf-dejavu 2.34-2
ttf-ms-fonts 2.0-10
ttf-urdufonts 1.2-3
tumbler 0.1.31-1
tzdata 2015a-1
udisks2 2.1.5-1
upower 0.99.2-2
usbutils 008-1
util-linux 2.26.1-3
v4l-utils 1.6.2-1
vi 1:050325-4
videoproto 2.3.2-1
vte 0.28.2-5
vte-common 0.38.3-1
wayland 1.7.0-1
wget 1.16.3-1
which 2.20-7
wine 1.7.39-2
wine-mono 4.5.6-1
wine_gecko 2.36-1
wpa_supplicant 2.3-1
xcb-proto 1.11-1
xcb-util 0.4.0-1
xextproto 7.3.0-1
xf86-input-evdev 2.9.1-1
xf86-input-keyboard 1.8.0-3
xf86-input-mouse 1.9.1-1
xf86vidmodeproto 2.3.1-3
xfce4-appfinder 4.12.0-1
xfce4-mixer 4.11.0-2
xfce4-panel 4.12.0-1
xfce4-power-manager 1.4.4-1
xfce4-session 4.12.1-2
xfce4-settings 4.12.0-3
xfce4-terminal 0.6.3-2
xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin 1.5.0-2
xfconf 4.12.0-1
xfdesktop 4.12.1-1
xfwm4 4.12.2-1
xineramaproto 1.2.1-3
xkeyboard-config 2.14-1
xorg-bdftopcf 1.0.5-1
xorg-font-util 1.3.1-1
xorg-font-utils 7.6-4
xorg-fonts-alias 1.0.3-1
xorg-fonts-encodings 1.0.4-4
xorg-fonts-misc 1.0.3-3
xorg-iceauth 1.0.7-1
xorg-mkfontdir 1.0.7-2
xorg-mkfontscale 1.1.2-1
xorg-server 1.17.1-4
xorg-server-common 1.17.1-4
xorg-server-utils 7.6-4
xorg-sessreg 1.1.0-1
xorg-setxkbmap 1.3.0-2
xorg-xauth 1.0.9-1
xorg-xbacklight 1.2.1-1
xorg-xcmsdb 1.0.4-2
xorg-xgamma 1.0.5-2
xorg-xhost 1.0.6-1
xorg-xinit 1.3.4-2
xorg-xinput 1.6.1-1
xorg-xkbcomp 1.3.0-1
xorg-xmodmap 1.0.8-1
xorg-xrandr 1.4.3-1
xorg-xrdb 1.1.0-1
xorg-xrefresh 1.0.5-1
xorg-xset 1.2.3-1
xorg-xsetroot 1.1.1-2
xproto 7.0.27-1
xz 5.2.1-1
yajl 2.1.0-1
yaourt 1.5-1
zlib 1.2.8-3
EDIT:
More suggestions welcome.
Last edited by jackpot (2015-03-25 17:27:24)

First single-boot Linux, in the future multi-boot after addition of Windows

The given hardware setup is 32Bits Pentium 4 with blank SATA HDD and BIOS. GPT is in seek on that HDD, not MBR. As next it will be setup to single-boot system with Linux. Means amongst others the disk is to be partitioned.
However it is unclear if Linux will satisfy the user of this system. It will show in middle or long term if the satisfaction is present or not. Therefore the plan B is in setup now as well. It means, should it in the future turn out that user will have Windows
instead of Linux indeed, such a OS will be added to this system - means in no way a replacement - a smooth transition only accepted, a transition which surely need some extent of time. It will be added in the multi-boot fashion, not as VM - due to quite vintage
hardware state. Let's assume in such a case the Windows 8.1 will be taken.
As for current stage of works - means the disk partitioning - which measures of precaution must be met now in order to make such and system extension in the future possible? Just to leave a free space on disk for needs of future Windows installation? Must the
reservation be made in specific disk regions or no matter? Is it necessary for this reason to create now a partition of specific type, with specific properties? Anything else to be considered?
There are lots of articles and howtos in the web regarding multi-boot questions however all they address the reversed situation, first Windows then add other vendor's OS.

Hi,
I agree with BoYans's opinion. MBR style is applied to your computer. If you install Windows after Ubuntu, There are two approaches for you from Ubuntu official website:
One is recovering GRUB after reinstalling Windows.
Another is master Boot Record backup and re-replacement.
For more information and further help, please refer to the official guide and contact Ubuntu support:
WindowsDualBoot
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WindowsDualBoot
Please Note: Since the website is not hosted by Microsoft, the link may change without notice. Microsoft does not guarantee the accuracy of this information.
Karen Hu
TechNet Community Support

Grub interactive install going wrong

Hey there! Yeah, sorry for the vague thread subject, really.
Tried to use interactive install with a core image to install Arch from an USB Key (using unetbootin) on a pre-installed windows PC today
Everything is going fine ... until hitting the bootloader installing part.
After choosing grub, and uncommenting the section in the config file to enable the windows loading entry, the grub installation fails miserably for some reason.
Looking at /dev/tty7 shows that the installer tries to input commands into the GRUB command line (something about grub setup on sda4), which are then answered to by an error (namely errors 13 and 22)
I have basically no idea about GRUB setup so can't really tell more though
Only got a single HDD, whose structure is basically =>
sda1 ntfs 100mb windows system stuff (no, i dont know) }
sda2 ntfs 350gb windows main } => didn't set them as usable or anything in the filesystem menu earlier in interactive install
sda3 ntfs 200gb random data } since i didnt see a ntfs filesystem in the list
sda4 ext4 150gb root
sda5 ext4 100mb /boot => tried removing it so that grub would install on root, same results
sda6 swap 4gb
sda7 ??? 15gb system restore
Did i just do something stupidly wrong?
or shall i just try to go for some manual grub install somehow?
Either way, i'd appreciate some pointers :S
Thanks in advance !

The partitions sda1, sda2, sda3, sda4 are primary partitions by virtue of their enumeration. You have identified all four of them as being either NTFS or ext4. Then your list continues on with sda5, sda6, sda7 which by their enumeration are logical partitions. But you did not identify an extended partition which has to exist to contain the logical partitions. So I contend that you are a little confused about your partition layout to begin with. One of those first four primary partitions has to be an extended partition. Maybe you are attempting something with it that GRUB is justifiably not cooperating with.
Next, when you have sorted that partition business, have you considered allowing GRUB to be installed in the master boot record instead of a partition boot sector? GRUB would then boot directly from BIOS and is well-known to be capable of booting Windows. BTW, if you decide to do that, sda1 looks suspiciously like a Vista or W7 boot partition to me. It likely would be the partition to target for GRUB to boot Windows.
Last, if you continue on with installing GRUB in a partition boot sector, you should know that Arch will not boot until you configure the existing boot loader (Windows, surely) to boot it. That's not necessarily a bad thing. Many people choose to do that. The free software known as EasyBCD greatly simplifies the task of configuring Vista or W7 to boot a Linux system.
Either way. Install GRUB in the MBR and GRUB boots Arch and Windows. Or install GRUB in the first sector of the Arch boot partition (or root partition if no separate boot partition) and the Windows boot loader boots Arch and Windows.
Last edited by stoat (2011-09-26 01:48:25)

Boots into grub shell

Hello everyone
I am brand new to arch, and have just attempted my first netinstall. The installation seemed to run smoothly, and I followed along on the beginner installation guide. I finished the installation and rebooted, and this is where the problem comes in. I assume I must have made some kind of an error while installing grub, because the computer loads into a kind of grub shell, which looks like this...
GNU GRUB version 0.97 (638K lower / 980928k upper memory)
[ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For the first word, TAB lists possible command completions. Anywhere else TAB lists the possible completions of a device / filename. ]
grub>
I'm not quite sure what I need to do from here. After a quick google I found http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GRUB, and skimmed untill I got to something that looked relevant.
The following example is for systems with a separate /boot partition:
grub> find /grub/stage1
I let the installer auto partition my external hard drive, and I'm nearly positive it added a 100mb boot partition. I thought this might help locate some kind of a file that GRUB was missing for whatever reason, but the output of the above command is:
Error15: File not found
If someone could help me get the boot loader up and working that would be awesome! As a sidenote, I am (at least attempting) to dual boot windows and arch.
All help is appriciated

Ok, I wiped the windows install to make the installation easier, and am using only one hard drive (/dev/sda). I succesfully went through the installation and installed the boot loader. And for the first time when rebooting after the installation I recieved the boot selections screen, containing arch, and arch fall back. I happily chose arch, and it began running through the start up. After a point things stopped, and I examined the console on the screen finding:
Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
Pid 1, comm:kinit Not tainted 2.6.30-ARCH #1
This was followed by a 'call trace' containing some miscelaneous garble. I'm not sure what this means, what do I need to do to fox this? In case it help I belive the kernel line looked like this:
title Arch Linux (Main)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/sda1 vga=773
initrd /kernel26.img
I'm not sure if this is relevant or not, but I installed the bootloader to /dev/sda.
Thanks for any help!

Getting windows to boot from grub [Resolved]

I have a netbook that I'd like to put windows on. I reserved a primary partition (sda4) for it (boot flag/ntfs), and since I have no other way to install it but through flash memory, I made a small, clean install onto disk and used dd to copy everything over to the flash drive. Normally I'm able to just copy all the data over (dd if=/dev/sdam of=/dev/sdbn), and the mbr stuff over (dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=446 count=1), and everything is good, but I can't get the windows partition to boot after I copy it over. I've tried fiddling w/ grub and the boot.ini file (different partition numbers), and copying the mbr to the beginning of sda (hosed grub) and the beginning of sda4 (hosed the windows partition), but when I try to boot windows grub hangs w/ the boot information and a flashing cursor. Any ideas as to what needs to be done to get windows to boot?
Last edited by omgwtfbyobbq (2011-03-10 01:42:44)

It wasn't a menu.lst or boot.ini issue as far as I can tell. I tried just about every partition permutation I could in both files and nothing worked. I eventually bit the bullet and deleted boot and swap so I could just install XP on the first partition and everything was fine after that.
My best guess is that the MBRs, both the one written through the USB stick version of the XP install and the versions I pulled off of other windows installs, weren't correct, and wouldn't point to the correct partition. I can't remember exactly, but odds are when I encountered this in the past I probably just dropped the XP install CD again so it would write the correct data to the MBR and reinstalled grub, but since I couldn't do that in this case I was kinda hosed. The only thing that I didn't try and could have worked was making a clean XP install on the third partition of a hard drive and using that MBR.
Last edited by omgwtfbyobbq (2011-03-11 03:14:53)

What happens if i boot with windows an install a new version of windows on mac book pro ?

I tried to install a windows on my mac book pro but i couldn't because of i don't know different problems which finally in this forum they told me u can not because of my hard disk partitions ( Link to that post) , now i am using vmware but its really slow for windows 8.1 and visual studio .
i have now a question , what happens if i boot with win 8.1 boot able DVD and install a new windows ?
the main questions are :
1. does it recognize any of my partition to select for windows installation ?
2. if no , can i format any partition for new partition during windows installation?
3. if i could install a windows , who is the boot loader ? windows or mac ? can i still boot to windows or what ?

majid khalili wrote:
I tried to install a windows on my mac book pro but i couldn't because of i don't know different problems which finally in this forum they told me u can not because of my hard disk partitions ( Link to that post) , now i am using vmware but its really slow for windows 8.1 and visual studio .
Give your previous partition layout, you cannot install Windows via Bootcamp, unless you are willing to give up all your extra partitions and go back to EFI, OS X and RecoveryHD only configuration.
i have now a question , what happens if i boot with win 8.1 boot able DVD and install a new windows ?
the main questions are :
1. does it recognize any of my partition to select for windows installation ?
2. if no , can i format any partition for new partition during windows installation?
3. if i could install a windows , who is the boot loader ? windows or mac ? can i still boot to windows or what ?
1. Windows installer will not work and you will end up with driver issues.
2. No.
3. You cannot, but if you could, the Apple Bootmanager would be your Boot Manager/Loader.

Extremely slow boot time on fresh install (Cinnamon + GDM)

Hi,
I have a fresh installation of Arch with Cinnamon + GDM taking about 2 minutes and 30 seconds (observed manually) from Grub menu to loading of desktop in usable condition.
It's installed on external USB drive. Although the hardware is old but rebooted within 15 seconds in VM on internal HD drive with same Cinnamon and SDDM.
Details are:
#1. Hardware info:
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4800+ x 2
Memory 2.7 GB
Hard drive 149.4 GB
GPU : nVidia Corp; GT 218 [GeForce 210]
USB wi-fi card
Arch vanilla kernel: 3.17.2-1
Problems:
a) Delay during loading of kernel modules,
b) Extreme delay in loading of display manager for login, and
c) Delay in loading of desktop.
I followed these guides:
Maximizing performance
Improve boot performance
Did not find any relevant tip to fix problems.
#2. systemd-analyze
Startup finished in 16.354s (kernel) + 10.182s (userspace) = 26.536s
It's wrong.
#3. systemd-analyze blame
4.151s wpa_supplicant.service
4.048s NetworkManager.service
1.623s colord.service
1.479s accounts-daemon.service
912ms systemd-logind.service
886ms gdm.service
679ms polkit.service
571ms [email protected]
548ms dev-hugepages.mount
547ms sys-kernel-debug.mount
524ms tmp.mount
512ms udisks2.service
475ms sys-kernel-config.mount
448ms dev-mqueue.mount
435ms systemd-remount-fs.service
423ms systemd-udev-trigger.service
409ms systemd-vconsole-setup.service
349ms [email protected]
330ms systemd-sysctl.service
258ms kmod-static-nodes.service
254ms systemd-tmpfiles-setup-dev.service
242ms upower.service
240ms systemd-journal-flush.service
218ms systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service
200ms rtkit-daemon.service
150ms systemd-random-seed.service
129ms home.mount
108ms systemd-user-sessions.service
94ms dev-sdb3.swap
88ms [email protected]
64ms systemd-update-utmp.service
60ms systemd-tmpfiles-clean.service
39ms [email protected]
27ms systemd-udevd.service
4ms sys-fs-fuse-connections.mount
Seems no problem.
#4. dmesg
Complete : http://pastebin.com/w7sXtuKh
Extract : Based on what I think adds delay
[ 22.277994] systemd-journald[138]: Received request to flush runtime journal from PID 1
[ 26.674187] r8169 0000:02:0f.0 enp2s15: link down
[ 26.674207] r8169 0000:02:0f.0 enp2s15: link down
[ 26.674267] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): enp2s15: link is not ready
[ 26.700183] ieee80211 phy0: rt2x00lib_request_firmware: Info - Loading firmware file 'rt2870.bin'
[ 26.729912] ieee80211 phy0: rt2x00lib_request_firmware: Info - Firmware detected - version: 0.29
[ 27.117488] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlp0s19f5u3: link is not ready
[ 53.360188] nvidia 0000:01:00.0: irq 25 for MSI/MSI-X
[ 53.951157] NVRM: Your system is not currently configured to drive a VGA console
[ 53.951164] NVRM: on the primary VGA device. The NVIDIA Linux graphics driver
[ 53.951167] NVRM: requires the use of a text-mode VGA console. Use of other console
[ 53.951170] NVRM: drivers including, but not limited to, vesafb, may result in
[ 53.951172] NVRM: corruption and stability problems, and is not supported.
[ 58.436865] wlp0s19f5u3: authenticate with 00:1f:fb:39:4c:24
[ 58.467542] wlp0s19f5u3: send auth to 00:1f:fb:39:4c:24 (try 1/3)
[ 58.469250] wlp0s19f5u3: authenticated
[ 58.469512] rt2800usb 2-3:1.0 wlp0s19f5u3: disabling HT/VHT due to WEP/TKIP use
[ 58.470040] wlp0s19f5u3: associate with 00:1f:fb:39:4c:24 (try 1/3)
[ 58.478853] wlp0s19f5u3: RX AssocResp from 00:1f:fb:39:4c:24 (capab=0x411 status=0 aid=3)
[ 58.485469] wlp0s19f5u3: associated
[ 58.485510] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlp0s19f5u3: link becomes ready
[ 58.485555] cfg80211: Calling CRDA to update world regulatory domain
[ 70.688882] fuse init (API version 7.23)
[ 283.405686] cfg80211: Calling CRDA to update world regulatory domain
#5. Important observation:
hdparm -t reports 13.54 mb /sec reads for the external drive I am using for this installation. I don't face lag or slowness after boot including another distro installed on this drive had this problem.
Please help in further analyzing and fixing this problem.
Thanks!

How fast does it boot to a tty? Disable gdm and boot to a tty. See if that is any faster than starting gdm. Gdm takes a while to start up if I run it on my computer and I have an SSD. But it will add several seconds to my boot time which from systemd-analyze is 9 seconds.
So, boot to a tty and use startx to start the session and see if it's any faster. 13MB/s seems like a pretty tight bottleneck for starting big applications like gdm and a desktop environment. I run a pretty simple openbox setup as my environment and it only uses 150 MB of memory after I startx. But if I could only load 13 MB /s from memory it would add another 11 seconds to the time it took me to startx.
So see how fast you can boot, and then see how fast you can load your desktop using startx. When I booted an install media of arch on an old computer with usb2 it took about 10 minutes to get everything going.

Multi Camera Editing with Matrox CODEC ( VS4 ) Card

Hello All.
Setup
I am recording 4 inputs from the Matrox VS4 via Wirecast 4.2 and also tried 5.0
- 1080i @ 100Mbps
- All the video footage play perfectly with no problems what so ever
- I Have installed the Matrox VFW Software Codecs of a system which DOES NOT have the VS4 card
- I can edit 1 video with NO PROBLEM.
Problem
- Using Adobe Premiere 7.1 CC with multi camera editing, the footage is jittery after a few seconds.
- Using Adobe Premiere CS 6.0 with multi camera editing, the footage is jittery after a few seconds.
- I have tried with 2 cameras up to 4 cameras and I get the same problem.#
Other Test
- I have tried 12 x videos which are MP4 in multi camera editing with NO PROBLEMS!!!
- I am using 4 x 128GB SSD in RAID 0 ( 1450 MB/s) - Through put is not an issue.
- I have also reduced the MB/s on the ISO capture of 50MB/s
This is the CODEC you need to have installed on your computer in order to edit the view/edit the videos recorded by the Matrox VS4:
http://www.matrox.com/video/en/support/windows/vfw_software_codecs/downloads/softwares/ver sion1.0/
The Matrox Video for Windows (VFW) software codecs let you render and play back Matrox .avi files in your VFW programs without having Matrox video hardware installed. This version provides codecs that were previously available only on systems that have particular Matrox video hardware, such as Matrox Axio. This includes the Matrox DVCPRO HD codec, and "+ Alpha" versions of the Matrox uncompressed and MPEG-2 I-frame codecs. As well, the Matrox VFW MPEG-2 I-frame HD codec now lets you render and play back Matrox MPEG-2 I-frame .avi files in all HD formats (720p, 1440x1080i/p, and full-size 1080i/p).
The following VFW software codecs are provided for use on 32-bit and 64-bit Windows operating systems:
Matrox DV/DVCAM
Matrox DVCPRO
Matrox DVCPRO50
Matrox DVCPRO HD
Matrox MPEG-2 I-frame in SD and HD resolutions, with or without alpha
Matrox Uncompressed in SD and HD resolutions, with or without alpha
Matrox Offline HD
Matrox M-JPEG and HDV (playback only)
Is this an issue that is present the Premier 7.1 CC or the CODEC or even both?
Thank you all.

Hello,
Please send me an email at;
[email protected]
I'll work with you to address your multicam performance issue with your VS4
Regards
W@

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