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Out of the box the firmware would not boot the Arch Linux USB because secure boot was enabled. text/html 2025-06-23T18:35:42+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://home.jholtrop.com/wiki/arch_install_cheat_sheet?rev=1750703742&do=diff Wireless Network Setup iwctl device list iwctl station wlan0 scan iwctl station wlan0 get-networks iwctl --passphrase <passphrase> station wlan0 connect <SSID> Base gdisk cryptsetup luksFormat /dev/<root> mkfs.ext4 /dev/<boot> cryptsetup open /dev/<root> <crypt-root> mkfs.ext4 /dev/mapper/<crypt-root> mount /dev/mapper/<crypt-root> /mnt mkdir /mnt/boot mount /dev/<boot> /mnt/boot mkdir /mnt/efi mount /dev/<efi> /mnt/efi pacstrap -K /mnt base linux linux-firmware vim genfstab -U /mnt >> /mn… text/html 2016-12-13T14:49:43+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://home.jholtrop.com/wiki/arch_linux_on_gentex_dell_m6600_laptop?rev=1481640583&do=diff Installation Follow <https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/installation_guide>. * Use networkmanager for network configuration * Edit /etc/mkinitcpio.conf per <https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dm-crypt/Encrypting_an_entire_system>: HOOKS="... encrypt lvm2 ... filesystems ..." 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