Arch install notes (uEFI & Nvidia) Before starting the bootable media, if you are on a GTX 10XX, the interface will not load properly, to fix this in the arch iso boot menu, click on the "e" key and add "nouveau.modeset=0" at the end of grub cfdisk /dev/sda Create 3 partitions as listed below, and change the type for sda2 and sda3 /dev/sda1 = FAT partition for EFI /dev/sda2 = / (root) /dev/sda4 = swap mkfs.fat -F32 /dev/sda1 mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda2 mkswap /dev/sda3 swapon /dev/sda3 mount /dev/sda2 /mnt mkdir /mnt/boot mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/boot vi /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist pacstrap -i /mnt base base-devel genfstab -U -p /mnt >> /mnt/etc/fstab arch-chroot /mnt check with "mount" if /sys/firmware/efi/efivars is mounted vi /etc/locale.gen locale-gen echo LANG=en_US.UTF-8 > /etc/locale.conf export LANG=en_US.UTF-8 ls /usr/share/zoneinfo/ ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/your-time-zone > /etc/localtime hwclock --systohc --utc echo my_linux > /etc/hostname vi /etc/pacman.conf [multilib] Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist [archlinuxfr] SigLevel = Never Server = http://repo.archlinux.fr/$arch pacman -Sy pacman -S bash-completion vim ntfs-3g useradd -m -g users -G wheel,storage,power -s /bin/bash dave passwd passwd dave visudo %wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL bootctl install vim /boot/loader/entries/arch.conf title Arch Linux linux /vmlinuz-linux  initrd /initramfs-linux.img echo "options root=PARTUUID=$(blkid -s PARTUUID -o value /dev/sdb3) rw" >> /boot/loader/entries/arch.conf If you own a Haswell processor or higher pacman -S intel-ucode title Arch Linux initrd /intel-ucode.img initrd /initramfs-linux.img ip add systemctl dhcpcd@eth0.service Now Lets get the graphical stuff: pacman -S nvidia-dkms libglvnd nvidia-utils opencl-nvidia lib32-libglvnd lib32-nvidia-utils lib32-opencl-nvidia nvidia-settings gnome linux-headers vim /etc/mkinitcpio.conf MODULES="nvidia nvidia_modeset nvidia_uvm nvidia_drm" vim /boot/loader/entries/arch.conf options root=PARTUUID=bada2036-8785-4738-b7d4-2b03009d2fc1 rw nvidia-drm.modeset=1 vim /etc/pacman.d/hooks/nvidia.hook [Trigger] Operation=Install Operation=Upgrade Operation=Remove Type=Package Target=nvidia [Action] Depends=mkinitcpio When=PostTransaction Exec=/usr/bin/mkinitcpio -P exit umount -R /mnt reboot POST INSTALL pacman -S xf86-input-synaptics mesa xorg-server xorg-apps xorg-xinit xorg-twm xorg-xclock xterm yaourt gnome nodm systemctl enable NetworkManager systemctl disable dhcpcd@.service systemctl enable nodm vim /etc/nodm.conf NODM_USER= dave NODM_XSESSION=/home/ dave/.xinitrc vim /etc/pam.d/nodm auth include system-local-login account include system-local-login password include system-local-login session include system-local-login reboot