No Way Know How

I managed this more or less by myself. sudo pacman -S linux-lts linux-headers-lts Installing the lts kernel will prompt for the headers, so you might as well do them together. Then go to /boot and find the conf file, under loader or wherever. copy the file and append -lts to the linux img lines and vmlinuz-linux. then sudo bootctl update, reboot, and you should have the new entry in the UEFI boot menu.

Just realised I never concluded my strand on trying to get arch installed with UEFI boot on the asus laptop. I've given up, but I think I have good reason to. It's clear that unless the arch live iso boots with UEFI, the hooks, or efi variables or whatever (this happened a while ago) are not available to the ne w installation. The asus wouldn't boot in UEFI mode when I burned a disk either, and none of the suggested workarounds were getting me anywhere (the most common idea was to copy the contents of one efi boot file to another - presumably to force UEFI boot - but then I got into this whole read-only filesystem bullshit that was too much of a K-hole to resolve). Funnily enough, almost all the references to this issue that I could find online had to do with asus motherboards of one sort or another, so I'm chalking this up to shitty UEFI implementation on my cheapo asus and leaving it at that. The main purpose of the exercise was just to see how fast I could get ...

I was sure I wrote this stuff down the first time I fumbled through an arch uefi install. Guess not. Since this is going to be the process I use in whatever new laptop I end up getting, I thought I'd best record it as I go. A few differences from previous arch self-guide. I'm not doing the partitioning from a gui in a live CD, I'm just using the archlive installation usb to run cli programs like gdisk. I'm also not using LVM - I'll need to look at how that works with UEFI and stuff going forward. I'm using a 128G SSD, so don't need / can't have loads of other OSs. Anyway, let's go. Clear disk, create partitions and filesystems Boot into the latest arch iso then run gdisk on the disk you want to use (sda here): gdisk /dev/sda Clear the existing partition table: O Create a new EFI System partition n 1 [return] +512M ef00 Create swap partition: n 2 [return] +2G 8200 Create a partition on the rest of the disk for the OS and ...