ArcoLinux : 2396 Figuring out how Refind works on an Arch Linux installation - experimental

hi guys i'm in for a little bit of experimenting some more with arch linux you saw me experimenting on sunday on refined another way to to boot up your system and it's basically arch linux wiki or something like this one arsenal next week go to the wiki and in the wiki you have the installation guide and at some point in time they tell you to install a bootloader and then you can choose the linux capable bootloader and why is grub so interesting look at this all the green stuff there is right so it doesn't matter if you have mbr bt gpt buys ufi and b2 rfs x4 rise rfs it's all there it's all possible we know it's even more it's possible with more file system than those mentioned here we've tested it we know it does even do more i want to try out an arch links installation on virtualbox with refined with uefi and tpt then right and no encryption not btrfs but just stick to x4 keep it simple and stupid and see does it work okay so i'm going to skip at some point in time what i have written down in articlexd.com because that's where we install our arch linux iso let's go to phase one ufi and follow what needs to be done i'm gonna put this on my second screen bye for now and then here super f7 is launching virtualbox got to make something completely new so arch refined that's cool that does not exist yet because there is also an arch linux refine but this is me starting all over again and getting back the choose a disk file where will it be somewhere in the downloads there is arch links of the 12th december the first and then we boot up again ah no no no no no let us voila you see already when everything is nice and graphically you're not in efi you're not we're just not so that's what we want to try out refined a new efi which means i need to close this thing power off this thing and then go to settings tell them forget about bias we are going to uefi and that's it and then the rest is work work a lot of typing until i get to my refined first thing is my keyboard layout load keys be latin one to get to azerty let's type post then well and if you're wondering this is etc mod d have a look etc multi it's rubbish if you install gnome because you'll see the text maybe it's changed but in the past it was over all there and i thought oh my god what's this so that's where it's coming from the e delete it doesn't matter if you keep it it's it's fine doesn't bother you fine keep it otherwise delete it so load keys power yeah i've been meeting all day so i'm a bit different now right chilling true scroll scroll scroll cf disk what shall we do now so gpt for sure right ufi gpt but what shall we do with this right i always started almost starting to sing what shall we do with the drunken sailor i've been singing that when i was 16. back in canterbury foxton i've been in so many places in my youth scrolling down still crawling down so okay let's see what shall we do we have 500 megabytes that's more than enough for a type efi system the rest will turn it around swap at the end 25 gigabytes for root okay linux file system and the rest of it goes to swap if you turn the root and the swap doesn't matter don't really matter for linux you tell them where it is going so right yes okay and then we quit and we ask did we do it right so i have to remember now that sda1 is efi sda2 is root and sda3 is swap and it will be maybe different than what i've made here in the video that's my point right you have to read these things with your mind hundred percent following what's at stake what's what's what's meant which has changed and has to be correct so fats let's try it again make file system tap and that's it that's all you can do fun let's start with a fat minus 32 device sda one that's the same as on the website then i want to make the swap a new now the second one is x4 or 3 or 2 x4 device sda 2 is the root that's that and now comes the make swap if you want one if you have lots and lots of memory like plus eight then who needs a swap it depends what applications you run right so number three the website says two here we say oh no we've changed it so here it has to be three swap is three and then swap on device sda3 you see what's on the website you need to make a translation switch it around now we're gonna mount stuff that's gonna be switching again right device sda two into mnt three on the website so we've mounted our root check then we're going to make a directory inside this mnt i'm going to make it boot then another directory boot efi like so now we're going to mount everything well not everything we need to mount device sda1 inside the folder that we just created boot efi and enter sold scrolling select the mirrors let's have a look nano etc basically is waiting who won because the arch links iso voila ozbeck one again oh the reflector the application reflector that we use as well of course is um checking all the in servers that are near me in belgium right it's going to look ozbek wins and then there's a german or an altrish on so austria and dot nets and italy italy there arch mirror it and so on and so on okay the rest is just guessing but mainly right primarily everything comes from us back if it's not there it's gonna descend another line and another line till it finds the package so super happy with autopack maybe the video will be fast or maybe not because it does not mean it's always fast it is a computer it is dependent of bandwidth and all that we can just try no linux linux firmware and you can't live without nano speed control c control c control c none atc pacman.com why don't you do this guys why don't you put it by default on why voila five downloads at one time parallel downloads will go a lot faster and one by one and then we scroll again on the website okay fs stop is next one to make innit cpa is done with zst compression these days and then we want to generate the file system mine is you mount and we write it away to mount edc f s tab file it's there but it's important enough to have a look is it really there because otherwise all my work will be for not so x4 root utf-5 v-fat sca1 correct and h3 right okay that's how i meant it that's how it's written they say arch schrute into mount and look at the prefix color red is gone we are on our future machine at this point in time we're working on our computer this is the minus sf f with force otherwise we get that message uh if you forget the force there zone info you the hardware clock minus minus we want to get to grub right at the end so we need to go through all the things because maybe maybe i will play playing with some later in this virtual machine one two three four five and then we see e-n-u-s utf-8 x yes please and then we're gonna generate the locale so i want to have an english system english us shorter alternative echo language equals en underscore us the same selection we just did no typos allowed go inside edc dot com yes correct key map equals v11 and you go inside etc but that as we say in dutch potato but that it's in there and then i hope arch likes it does feel like a lot of typing right calamaris thank you you exist host name nano epc hosts and then and local host one of them and then mobile hosts voila saved just saved scrolling down we already are at the pacman minus s network manager the mistake of all mistakes that you misread it enable let's do that again system ctl okay enable oh and then capital letter capital letter three lines bingo it's good password for root why not maybe a good idea and let me scroll down put loader okay so background miners s grow up an efi boot manager i'm moving to the refine page and i find install the refined package so sweetheart pacman minus s refined okay and efi boot manager is there already so i wanted to install that one as well no need it's there and i do my refined install esp was found at boot efi using v-fat installing driver there and copying sample refine the set as default boot manager or creating boot refined linux conf edit it and adjust the kernel options okay i hope that's enough um going back to jumping over all what's concerning grub so crop and efi boot manager crop install target group make config all of that none of that is changed okay that means we need to exit and to umount and i just hope what will we see now this is the first time ever i've done this right we got ourselves a refined look the fallback bootloader and another one we'll see i guess the iso is still in there skippings root file system error device not found skipping file check mounting on real root new root no file system type specified ouch control r uh-huh so that's the one from the iso control r that's iso so something went wrong boot vm linus linux device not found skipping file check mounting on a real root no file system type specified now dropped into emergency shell ah doesn't look any and doesn't look great right to say the least pausing the recording so i read again the page alternative you can install refine to the default fallback boot path esp efi boot boot excepts etc so ctrl r i'm gonna go back into the system line one is the second or the third was good and then i'm gonna arch root back into it because we've done a lot of work and what we want to keep working i'm gonna keep changing until it works so that's what the power of arch schrute is all about there are a few videos out there where i was in a pickle right did an update and got something wrong or whatever it was uh and you're in a black screen you can always always fix your computer again the only thing you need is arch route knowledge perseverance patience stuff like that but so we'll attempt it now so ls block right remember that's the situation i want to arch i am low keys load keys be lighten one yeah all right that's that and then we want to arch roots into the let me have a look so it's more or less to after the clock after locale gen no no before before has to be before well here it is um before the video arch linux 15 moving into your future more or less in the middle okay and then you schrute into the place you mount it but oops right whoops nothing is mounted yet you need to scroll up a little bit more because you have to tell the system ah there is sda1 is this sda2 is that and so on so you need to scroll up a little bit more before we can our shoot into anything we need to mount stuff so let's mount the device sda2 first because that's the route into mount check right and then we're going to mount device sda 1 which is the boot into mnt boots i did believe if i like that right check so we have both those two if you want to have swap on i don't think that's necessary to have swap there since we're not gonna change anything so i'm gonna do this uh make this my own what if i think we can do it without it we'll see and then we scroll back to the arch root and then into mount then it's possible right so now we are in our system in our system there we have this so that looks good there's a refine from linux cd efi ls cd efi ls and there is refined okay say the refined ls cool now the sentence the sentence is archery says alternatively you can install refine to the default fallback booth path and that's inside boot so cd ls cd ls i think something's going to happen here so let's do refined install and then use default and then device sda warner that's bhuta okay there is a note binary not installed nothing here hi now we have an extra folder called boot and then there's some stuff let's see no see the reboot is too quick exit first then you mount all these things what was the command the exact command that you should be using by the way it changes over the years all these instructions from arch linux now it's minus r mnt now we can do an i did not do a refined install everything is unmounted anyway now so let's see it should be the first one now maybe that was still my problem right among new roots still the same thing stepping file check device not found we should check out what's the content of actually the config file of refined so let's have a look let's go in there again nobody said it would be easy installing arch links did somebody say that no don't think so if anything well as a consolation guys installing gen 2 was a lot more difficult than this like a lot all right this one again so low keys one so you can skip this bit since when i'm gonna do exactly the same thing i hope mount device sda2 inside mode then i can go up one into boot efi check so swap we did not do it arch root into mnt arch refined install not overwriting can be actually override a good question i'm going to do the other one as well let's try both of them use default device sda one both of them ran that's one thing and then we read again um i see a command that i never run make or help what's that existing good found not overwriting so i guess we can overwrite with the force and refined install help use default routes keep name no drivers all drivers shim okay so that's oh maybe the yes thing what's the yes thing there's something about mounting okay anything else yeah let's check the content let's check the contents cd boot ls nano refined this looks normal okay if i palace ls nano refined conf those all files and folders and all that i mean by that none of the above so just the configuration and the normal configuration would normally suffice i would think okay that's how this looks and there's another one all right so unless again there's some icons another refine called comp how many refined combs we have right the main thing the main thing is this one right refined linux.com remove refined linux.conf when we do come on come on this one refined install use default def as a1 without yes this is wrong right couldn't mount as they won aborting did i not so i remove refined and there is something there there is a temporary file folder in there there is and it's empty i know i'm already pseudo but i want to get to the remove so i cannot remove refined steel devices so resource busy that's no fun exit what's mounted what's mounted that's already all of it is mounted already that's strange okay u-mount the device sda1 and you mount device sda2 turret is busy don't be busy then why are busy control are losers why are they busy you see these things figuring out these things guys you're not alone it takes time try this try that why why why try again why oops i found something here warning it's it's all in red warning when refined install is run in schrute that's me in live system when installing arsenal boot refinance is populated with kernel puppet not the one on which it is installed edit boot refined linux.conf and make sure the kernel parameters in it are correct for your system otherwise you could get a kernel panic on your next boot wow i do love grub now have fun so ls block reference let's mount no let's not mount let's load keys [Music] latin one enter okay let's now mount sda2 which is my route into mnd wow wow wow wow device device sda2 mounts and then we mount device sda one where ah mount boot efi jack then we arch schrute into mnt oh everything changes we are now in our future machine and now the red thing when refined install is run in shroot that's us when refined install is run in shroot they say so creating boot refine linux.conf edit to adjust the kernel options yeah and how should i do that make sure the kernel parameters in it are correct for your system then i press the link kernel parameters when building the kernel blah blah how do we know key group is here lilo is there refined ah press f2 inserts desired menu or the end of the screen enter to put with these parameters to make it persistent append them between the quotes in all required lines for example quiet splash if you have disabled auto detection of oss and refined auto detection i want that where is auto detection cd boot efi efi refined refine.conf yeah of course it's not a directory nanorefined.conf autodetection timeout local level shutdown also scan directories boots shouldn't we add boots put boots efi efi i don't know okay did not find anything about auto completing or anything like that can we yes i'm going to save it i want to know rook command line okay that's not the uid that i need why is this so difficult press enter to put with these parameters um there was an ls there is an ls and then it's not pci no unless something or else something do not recognize it what i remember is probably not cornell all right linux find uv id linux what the words block id and then something behind it and that's it block id so mine ends with fe4 yeah ls where am i actually one level up one level up on level here ls nano refined linux it ends with e4 boot with minimal options boot with standard options both with minimal options all of that is the iso the first two lines are the iso so the only thing that i'm interested in and it's certainly not read only why it says ro shouldn't it say read write or something so refined yeah boot with minimal options root why hey okay sorry i was typing in the other screen boot with minimal options using default options doesn't matter it's just text and then root root equals that and now we have this read write quiet splash quiet is with any hours this is quit quiet stress this might be it this might be it to make the changes persistent after reboot edit to momentum between the quotes in all required lines for example x yes was it again ls block id what is block id what was it there it is block id ah my text is gone it's always gone anyway i need to have two four four two in the beginning four four two i think it's the one right okay then if that's defined if i do that again the refined install will happen to it we'll overwrite it everything is the same okay and then we have the other one as well refined install and then the default option was it again i could read on the other page but right help and then you read that it's gonna be use default okay use default in the device where it's gonna go let's see it's still the same okay shall we try again time target is ready we'll see we'll see so i'm back out new mount over towards minus r or something i don't know anymore u mount minus r and then tell what to unmount exit or or i guess the pseudo gluten oh my god what will happen i have no clue what will come now so we've got this i have oh i wanted to have a look at the code behind it is that this about refined manage hidden reboot then no a tap a tap boot with minimal options that's me right enter oh finally don't know what i did but it works so it was actually a manual intervention of the text aya root erik is does not exist yet it was a manual intervention of ours okay cool next challenge um next challenge would go we go in here being root cd boot and then ef5 efi refined and then that's cool make a directory called themes so your packing minus as get minus as gets yes please git clone [Music] https github.com let's have a look github ev1 enter found it repositories find the repository refined we search with the word refined and now we type ursa and now we have refined ls ah my mistake let's quickly remove it remove minus r versa alright cd themes and in here we'll do a good clone voila ls cd ls then we're gonna not sudo no no refined dot conf at the very very very very end we're gonna say let's see include something how was it written [Music] include definitely changed name so long to type theme.com ctrl x yes please save see the reports and to report so that's the refined exercise this is me pressing tab okay and this is me pressing tab so i guess if we do all that out of here let's say forget about all that close and we tell the system here forget about arch links iso then we get this look right iso is out and then just one operating system there and we boot into arch links with a nice article x logo to make people really confused now ah eric does not exist for me the exercise is done right i don't care about the rest the rest is 20 30 videos about installing mate and plasma and all that arch so what i do i remember after making this video that the file let's go there summary now i did two things right so i'll have to do it sometime again because the commands i did can we still see them is it this one that did the trick the use default i don't know or is it the one without all of this that did the trick what did the trick for me i think is going to be going inside nano refined linux.com changing this deleting the isos because that that's on the port right i would have been gone probably if i ejected the iso but the part where you tell him to to be not read only that's one thing and then read write quiet splash probably that was the bottleneck white hang need some more experimenting but i'm already happy with the results that's for sure i could have installed and have a working system but there's still so much to learn about all these configurations which by the way i changed as well that's something as well that i changed but not sure if that had an impact right that's what i always keep telling people if you start making changes one change test one change test but it's it's time yeah it's expensive in time as you say that's time consuming that's the word and yeah you make choices right but essentially for a tutorial this is not good because we've changed so many things and we wonder now still have a lot of questions if we would do this without that and if we would change this and if we change that will it be also working trial and error that's why i always say trial and error but it is a lot of time all right guys i'm out i hope something instructive some things linger then you say gonna give it a try like eric said let's try this and not that and let's try this not that a lot of configurations in the in the in the refine.com there lots of things to read lots of possible changes and frankly take a look at some themes also quite interesting make your own make your own system the way you like it that's basically all that matters all right cheers

Channel: Erik Dubois

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Keywords: arcolinux, arch linux, arch, archlinux

Id: 0iX3jGu7CnI

Length: 53min 55sec (3235 seconds)

Published: Mon Dec 06 2021