Questions after installation

m4estr001 · 2018-02-22 20:59:52

Hey everyone,

I have successfully installed my arch system, but i have few questions that still remains.
First one is: while installing arch, i have decided to mount my EFI partition (of course properly formated) to /boot/efi so i did mkdir /mnt/boot/efi, than mounted partition and all went well. After installing the system when i wanted to install bootloader i have noticed that from my arch-chroot partition was not mounted to /mnt/boot/efi so i have unmounted partition again made /mnt/boot/efi and mounted. Partiton and mountpoint was now visible from chroot and installation completed. So can someone tell me what i did wrong.

Second one: i have decided to install gnome desktop, so i have installed xorg and gnome (with gnome extra) and than i made systemctl to gdm.service and gnome works all well. But i am still not sure do i need xorg xinit. And if someone can explaint that to me that would be AWESOME.

I would appricate any answers.
Thanks in advance!

Last edited by m4estr001 (2018-02-22 21:02:06)

lo1 · 2018-02-22 21:22:33

from my arch-chroot partition

You've already got the answer

But i am still not sure do i need xorg xinit.

Nope. systemd will take care of starting your display manager. Regarding xinit https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xinit.

Wiki wrote:

The xinit program starts the X Window System server and works as the first client program on systems that are not using a display manager.

m4estr001 · 2018-02-22 21:25:48

Thanks for answering. Can You please explain me a bit more about that first question.

drcouzelis · 2018-02-23 14:43:39

I'm a little confused about everything you did too... Maybe this will help clarify?

The "arch-chroot" command is ONLY used when you in a live environment. (For example, when booting Arch Linux from a CD or USB drive.)

After Arch Linux is installed and you reboot your computer, you do not need the "arch-chroot" command any more.

Also, please post your "/etc/fstab" file.

m4estr001 · 2018-02-23 14:53:19

Hi sir, thanks for answering.

I am talking about live enviorenment, but while mounting my efi partiton (/dev/sda1) to /mnt/boot/efi , i was not using chroot. later when i did mountpoint was not visible. Her is the output https://pastebin.com/H45vQxfX

I will write to You exactly everything i did:

made partitions (/dev/sda1 - efi , /dev/sda2 swap, /dev/sda3 for system) formated them, mounted them (/dev/sda1 to /mnt/boot/efi which i previously created , /dev/sda3 to /mnt) now i proceeded to installation with pacstrap /mnt base base-devel , after that i generated fstab file and did arch-chroot /mnt. I continued to follow wiki (not to write everything), than i ended in part to install boot loader where i decieded to install grub. It could not be installed to /boot/efi so i checked lsblk and findmnt and there were not my efi partition mounted. so i switched to other terminal(or whatever the name is sorry) and umounted mkdir again and mounted. Now it was visible and grub-install was sucessfull.

Again thanks for answering, i really appricate it!

Trilby · 2018-02-23 14:59:39

m4estr001 wrote:

/dev/sda1 to /mnt/boot/efi which i previously created , /dev/sda3 to /mnt

There's the problem: order matters. Mounting sda3 masked the previous mount, and the /boot/efi directory was never even created on sda3. But it sounds like you worked around this welll to install the bootloader. Now you just need to add the proper line to your fstab (genfstab didn't do it because your efi partition wasn't mounted in the chroot when it ran).

m4estr001 · 2018-02-23 15:01:20

Sir thanks for answering,

I am sorry but i didnt not write good. I first mounted efi partition. I read about that issue somewhere but i am afraid that is not the case here.

And i wanted to ask do i have to manually add line, or generate fstab?

Last edited by m4estr001 (2018-02-23 15:01:56)

Trilby · 2018-02-23 15:43:56

m4estr001 wrote:

do i have to manually add line, or generate fstab?

Manually adding it would likely be much eaiser.

m4estr001 · 2018-02-23 15:45:56

Okay thanks.

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