This is a summary of my installation of Arch Linux on my Razer Stealth 13 (early 2020) laptop (model # RZ09-03102W52). This isn’t a recommendation of the laptop (in fact I will avoid Razer products in future).
This page follows many of the steps I used when I installed Arch Linux on an AMD 5800X3D CPU/RX 7800XT GPU PC system that I built, and so I refer to that page [1] frequently.
This page will add (to the existing Windows partitions) two partitions: one small, unencrypted partition will be mounted as /boot. The second will be a LUKS-encrypted partition occupying the rest of the drive. Inside this will be logical volumes for the rest of the system, eg /, /home, /usr, /var, and swap (/tmp will use a temporary file system tmpfs). I made life easier by swapping out the original 512GB SSD for a 2TB SSD, and copying the old SSD to the new one. (The new partitions can then easily be added.)
Follow the steps in [1]#download.
The Razer comes with Windows preinstalled on a 512GB SSD (Solid State Storage Technology Corp Lite-On CA5-8D512 512GB PcIe Gen3x4 NVMe M.2 2280).
This is too small to be useful, so I swapped it for a 2TB SSD (Samsung 970 Evo Plus M.2 2TB P/N MZVLB2T0HALB Model MZ-V7S2T0 2021.08 PCIe Gen 3.0x4 NVMe 1.3).
Boot up the Razer using the Arch Linux usb stick created above. Secure boot must be disabled in BIOS:
With the old SSD in an SSD enclosure, plugged into a USB port, copy the old SSD contents to the new SSD:
dd if=/dev/sdX of=/dev/nvme0n1 bs=4M status=progresswhere X is the usb device letter (check with eg lsblk -f
to list all attached block storage devices).
Reboot, booting again off the Arch Linux usb stick.
(This follows [1]#partition closely.)
Run
fdisk /dev/nvme0n1p”):
n”):
w”)If for some reason there were a number n other than 5
partitions on the original system, then modify the new partition numbers
accordingly (so the new partitions start at n+1).
cryptsetup --cipher aes-xts-plain --key-size 512 --hash sha512 -v luksFormat /dev/nvme0n1p7(follow instructions, including entering a passphrase).
cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/nvme0n1p7 nvme0n1p7_crypt
pvcreate /dev/mapper/nvme0n1p7_cryptFire up bash shell (ie don’t use the default zsh)
bash
vgname=MYVGNAME # volume group name, change as needed
vgcreate $vgname /dev/mapper/nvme0n1p7_crypt
# The LVs to create. `lvs` has elements: <name of lv> <size of lv in GiB>
# (change the logical volumes to be created and their sizes as needed)
lvs=(root 1 swap 16 usr 20 usr_local 10 usr_src 80 var 40 var_tmp 15 home 300 opt 15 games 400 music 60 videos 60)
for ((j=0; j<${#lvs[*]}; j+=2)); do lvcreate -L ${lvs[$j+1]}g $vgname -n ${lvs[$j]}; donevgname and lvs above as
needed.# what will be /boot. "-m 1" specified to reserve 1% for root user on each fs (not default 5%)
mkfs.ext4 -m 1 /dev/nvme0n1p6
# all the remaining (non-swap) filesystems. See above for "-m 1" explanation.
for ((j=0; j<${#lvs[*]}; j+=2)); do if [[ ${lvs[$j]} != swap ]]; then mkfs.ext4 -m 1 /dev/$vgname/${lvs[$j]}; fi; done
# set up the swap partition
mkswap /dev/$vgname/swapUnlike in [1]#partition
/boot will not be a FAT32 partition. It can be an ext4
partition as it will not include the EFI files, which have to go in a
FAT32 partition. Partition 2 will hold these files.
(with $vgname, $lvs as defined above, and still running under bash)
mount /dev/$vgname/root /mnt
mount --mkdir /dev/nvme0n1p6 /mnt/boot
# "p2" because partition 2 was the EFI System partition listed in "Set up partitions" above
mount --mkdir /dev/nvme0n1p2 /mnt/efi
swapon /dev/$vgname/swap
# mount non-root, non-swap LVM volumes to under /mnt, eg usr->mnt/usr, usr_local to mnt/usr/local (use IFS to "split" volume names on "_", then rejoin with "/")
IFS_bak="$IFS"; for ((j=0; j<${#lvs[*]}; j+=2)); do if [[ ${lvs[$j]} != root && ${lvs[$j]} != swap ]]; then IFS=_ pArray=(${lvs[$j]}); IFS=/ p="${pArray[*]}"; mount --mkdir /dev/$vgname/${lvs[$j]} /mnt/"$p"; fi; done; IFS="$IFS_bak"Follow the steps in [1]#essential.
Follow the steps in [1]#fstab.
Follow the steps in [1]#initramfs.
Follow the steps in [1]#grub.
(Expect $efi_part = /dev/nvme0n1p2 and
$efi_d = /efi.)
Follow the steps in [1]#mainuser.
Follow the steps in [1]#wifi.
Follow the steps in [1]#dhcpcd except:
as NetworkManager will be used to control wpa_supplicant and dhcpcd later.
The rest of the installation follows [1], noting that the Razer has:
Where relevant, expect
$efi_part = /dev/nvme0n1p2
$efi_d = /efi
$efi_disk = /dev/nvme0n1
$efi_p = 2Notes where needed on individual sections:
In [1]#secureboot, to enable secure boot in the BIOS:
When enrolling the MOK certificate, it is found in
SYSTEM/EFI/GRUB/<hostname>.cer.
Follow [1]#xorg, modified as follows:
Install drivers and libs with:
sudo pacman -S xf86-video-intel mesa lib32-mesa vulkan-intel lib32-vulkan-intel
sudo pacman -S nvidia-open nvidia-utils lib32-nvidia-utilsRemove kms from HOOKS array in /etc/mkinitcpio.conf and regenerate the initramfs ([2]#Installation):
sudo sed -i -E -e 's/^(HOOKS=.* )kms /\1/' /etc/mkinitcpio.conf
sudo mkinitcpio -PSet some nvidia_drm parameters ([2]#DRM_kernel_mode_setting):
sudo sed -i -E -e 's/^(GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="[^"]*)"/\1 nvidia_drm.modeset=1 nvidia_drm.fbdev=1"/' /etc/default/grub
sudo grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfgReboot.
NetworkManager was installed on this system.
Enabled automatic login.
Packages specific to this device:
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