Comments on: A Beginner’s Guide to Installing Arch Linux on UEFI Machines

By: Kevin Gross

Kevin Gross — Wed, 18 Jan 2023 18:50:33 +0000

Please change your article to show that dhcpd *must* be installed BEFORE the reboot, i.e.,

# pacman -S dhcpcd
# systemctl enable dhcpcd

Otherwise, the booted ArchLinux will have no network to install *anything*. The rest of your instructions were invaluable to me, Thank-you!

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 13 Oct 2020 18:22:22 +0000

Does /boot/EFI need to be added to /etc/fstab? I am getting dropped into `grub> ` prompt and /boot/EFI is empty. I am kind of guessing, it has been 10 years since I configured grub.

By: Ravi Saive

Ravi Saive — Wed, 29 Jul 2020 05:02:26 +0000

In reply to sclav.

@sclav,

Yeah sure, I will update the article with the installation of dhcpd…

By: sclav

sclav — Tue, 28 Jul 2020 15:12:41 +0000

You need to update the guide with the warning if dhcpcd is not installed before the exit you will not have an internet connection.

By: Ejrojasb

Ejrojasb — Fri, 13 Mar 2020 21:33:56 +0000

Well explained indeed.

What if you want to dual-boot Ubuntu? Then the EFI partition would be already installed and so does GRUB, right?

I’m struggling with this. I have both installed, but can’t boot into Arch, the grub menu entry is never shown.