#archinstall failing

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woven granite
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Im honestly not sure how to fix this

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commands run:

iwctl
pacman -Sy archlinux-keyring archinstall

cfdisk /dev/nvme0n1
mkfs.fat -F32 /dev/nvme0n1p1
mkfs.ext4 /dev/nvme0n1p2
mkswap /dev/nvme0n1p3
mount /dev/nvme0n1p2 /mnt
mkdir /mnt/boot 
mount /dev/nvme0n1p1 /mnt/boot
archinstall
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Things that could've broken it:

/dev/nvme0n1p1 is of type 'Linux extended boot'
The swap commands
I selected 'encrypted'
I'm trying to get hyprland 
It's the May release for the iso (although I tried the april one I think or the march one and it still didn't work)
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Logs are in the link above

gaunt tinsel
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just install it manually and start over on a fresh usb with all the partitions wiped

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it's more reliable + you know what you'll be getting yourself into by just installing it manually

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arch is the "do it yourself distro" after all

woven granite
gaunt tinsel
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I know how to dualboot but I've never tried messing with secure boot

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  • I'm not really comfortable with vcs
wooden fox
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@woven granite just type it here

woven granite
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The commands im using?

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Like for secure boot?

wooden fox
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@woven granite yes

chilly escarp
woven granite
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i want a smooth system

chilly escarp
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ok tell me what's your dual boot setup

woven granite
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(need windows 11 for school)

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also my laptop has nvidia gpu + intel integrated gpu

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planning on getting hyprland on arch

chilly escarp
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I do have same system setup too, and It required to turned off secure boot, so I do manually from BIOS,

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It takes me just sec to do that, idk why it's longer in your case

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Just find secure boot option in BIOS, whatever your motherboard is, google it

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And I'm on hyprland too

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and here is cmd if you want to do it from cli, It will check whether you have secure boot enabled or disabled.

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sudo mokutil --sb-state

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before running this cmd check mokutil package is installed in your system or not - pacman -Q | grep 'mokutil'

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If not found then install this package

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Disable secure boot by this cmd - sudo mokutil --disable-validation

wooden fox
woven granite
wooden fox
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woven granite
fallow zodiac
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Use pass through

woven granite
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Btw with doing secure boot when creating the extended boot is it different from the EFI one

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I'll try this but idk

gaunt tinsel
twin berry
# gaunt tinsel by fresh usb I just meant a usb with an arch install medium

to be clear if you boot into an arch iso and make changes, when you reboot, the iso is exactly the same as it was when you booted up, the changes are only made in active memory, they are not commited to the storage device, so if you need to do something like pacman -Sy archinstall or pacman -Sy archlinux-keyring on the ISO, you need to do that every time you boot into that ISO

gaunt tinsel
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I know, I just didn't know the correct wording for booting into the iso with a usb

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my bad

twin berry
# gaunt tinsel my bad

that's okay, just wanted to make sure you knew that, sorry for it being something you already know!

woven granite
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@gaunt tinsel @chilly escarp is there any way i could do encrypted without secure boot using arch install

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im just bad at partitioning

gaunt tinsel
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not sure

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never tried messing around with anything like that before

wooden fox
woven granite
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thanks

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are you sure?

wooden fox
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@woven granite The LUKS cryptsetup utility contains the reencrypt command that you can also use to encrypt your existing unencrypted root partition, i.e. without destroying the existing filesystem.