References:[ manjaro-cli-install | john_ransden-arch on ZFS | arch-systemd-boot-wiki ]
- Start from manjaro architect [ download ]
- login as
manjaropasswordmanjaro - Install necessary packages:
sudo -i # become root systemctl enable --now systemd-timesyncd # sync time using NTP pacman -Sy pacman -S --noconfirm openssh # edit /etc/ssh/sshd_config to have 'PermitRootLogin yes` line sed -i -E 's/^#PermitRootLogin.*$/PermitRootLogin yes/g' /etc/ssh/sshd_config echo "root:any" | chpasswd # change root password to 'any' systemctl start sshd ; systemctl status sshd ip addr show # note ip address - You can now ssh into the box. Login as root:
pacman-mirrors --country-list # list all pacman mirror countries pacman-mirrors --api --set-branch stable --country United_States,Singapore,Canada pacman -Sy - Install keysrings and create trust database and refresh keys
pacman -S --noconfirm pacman archlinux-keyring manjaro-keyring ntp pacman-key --init pacman-key --populate archlinux manjaro pacman-key --refresh-keys - Install zfs
pacman -S --noconfirm linux54-zfs # install ZFS modprobe zfs # load zfs module lsmod | grep zfs # see zfs module loaded zfs --version # check version - Set
DISK1andDISK2variables and erase themls -lF /dev/disk/by-idand set the UUID of your own hard disks
DISK1=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-VBOX_HARDDISK_VB18c0305d-4e63e5c6 # use your own DISK2=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-VBOX_HARDDISK_VB0a4a9fa5-eb40797e # use your own pacman -S --noconfirm gptfdisk sgdisk --zap-all $DISK1 sgdisk --zap-all $DISK2 - create UEFI partition for booting:
sgdisk -n1:1M:+512M -t1:EF00 $DISK1 sgdisk -n1:1M:+512M -t1:EF00 $DISK2 udevadm settle; sleep 1 mkfs.fat -F 32 -n EFI ${DISK1}-part1 mkfs.fat -F 32 -n EFI ${DISK2}-part1 - create ZFS partitions for boot:
sgdisk -n2:0:+1G -t2:BF00 $DISK1 sgdisk -n2:0:+1G -t2:BF00 $DISK2 sleep 1 - create ZFS partitions for root:
sgdisk -n3:0:0 -t3:BF00 $DISK1 sgdisk -n3:0:0 -t3:BF00 $DISK2 sleep 1 - create boot pool (bpool) with features incompatible for grub disabled. (see step 2.4) for parameters compatible with GRUB:
BPOOL=bpool zpool create -o ashift=12 -d \ -o feature@async_destroy=enabled \ -o feature@bookmarks=enabled \ -o feature@embedded_data=enabled \ -o feature@empty_bpobj=enabled \ -o feature@enabled_txg=enabled \ -o feature@extensible_dataset=enabled \ -o feature@filesystem_limits=enabled \ -o feature@hole_birth=enabled \ -o feature@large_blocks=enabled \ -o feature@lz4_compress=enabled \ -o feature@spacemap_histogram=enabled \ -o feature@userobj_accounting=enabled \ -o feature@zpool_checkpoint=enabled \ -o feature@spacemap_v2=enabled \ -o feature@project_quota=enabled \ -o feature@resilver_defer=enabled \ -o feature@allocation_classes=enabled \ -O acltype=posixacl -O canmount=off -O compression=lz4 -O devices=off \ -O normalization=formD -O relatime=on -O xattr=sa \ -O mountpoint=none -R /mnt -f $BPOOL mirror ${DISK1}-part2 ${DISK2}-part2 - create root pool (use
ashift=13for Samsung SSD):RPOOL=rpool zpool create -o ashift=12 \ -O acltype=posixacl -O canmount=off -O compression=lz4 \ -O dnodesize=auto -O normalization=formD -O relatime=on -O xattr=sa \ -O mountpoint=none -R /mnt \ -f $RPOOL mirror ${DISK1}-part3 ${DISK2}-part3 - create containers for $RPOOL and $BPOOL
zfs create -o mountpoint=none $BPOOL/BOOT zfs create -o mountpoint=none $RPOOL/ROOT - create datasets for $RPOOL:
rm -rf /mnt mkdir -p /mnt zfs create -o mountpoint=/ $RPOOL/ROOT/manjaro zfs create -o mountpoint=none $RPOOL/data zfs create -o mountpoint=/home $RPOOL/data/home zfs create -o mountpoint=/root $RPOOL/data/home/root zfs create -o mountpoint=/var/cache/pacman $RPOOL/data/paccache - create datasets for $BPOOL:
zfs create -o mountpoint=/boot $BPOOL/BOOT/default - unmount all filesystems and set new mountpoints:
zfs unmount -a # unmount all zfs filesystems zfs set mountpoint=/boot $BPOOL/BOOT/default zfs set mountpoint=/ $RPOOL/ROOT/manjaro zfs set mountpoint=/home $RPOOL/data/home zfs set mountpoint=/root $RPOOL/data/home/root zfs set mountpoint=/var/cache/pacman $RPOOL/data/paccache - Export pools:
zpool export $BPOOL zpool export $RPOOL - Re-import pools:
rm -rf /mnt zpool import -d /dev/disk/by-id -R /mnt $RPOOL zpool import -d /dev/disk/by-id -R /mnt $BPOOL - Disable cache files:
zpool set cachefile=none $BPOOL zpool set cachefile=none $RPOOL - make efi mount points and mount them:
mkdir -p /mnt/{efi1,efi2} mount -t vfat ${DISK1}-part1 /mnt/efi1 mount -t vfat ${DISK2}-part1 /mnt/efi2
- edit
/etc/fstabto include the above 4 pools from $RPOOL:echo "# generated fstab # <file system> <dir> <type> <options> <dump> <pass> $RPOOL/ROOT/manjaro/root / zfs defaults,noatime 0 0 $RPOOL/ROOT/manjaro/paccache /var/cache/pacman zfs defaults,noatime 0 0 $RPOOL/data/home /home zfs defaults,noatime 0 0 $RPOOL/data/home/root /root zfs defaults,noatime 0 0" \ > /etc/fstab- Set the bootfs property on the root filesystem. This command will only be successful when
dnodesizeproperty on$BPOOL/BOOT/defaultis set tolegacy[ ref ]zfs set dnodesize=legacy $BPOOL/BOOT/default zpool set bootfs=$BPOOL/BOOT/default $BPOOL
- double check work:
findmnt | grep /mnt # shows /mnt, /mnt/home, /mnt/root, /mnt/var/cache/pacman, /mnt/boot, /mnt/efi1, /mnt/efi2 as mounted - use
basestrapto install base set of packages into/mntbasestrap /mnt base linux54-zfs zfs-utils mkinitcpio grub efibootmgr dosfstools \ dhcpcd networkmanager openssh vi nano sudo man man-pages which bash-completion # removed - intel-ucode systemd-boot-manager - edit
/mnt/etc/mkinitcpio.confand changeHOOKSline to be:HOOKS=(base udev autodetect modconf block keyboard zfs filesystems)sed -i.bak -E 's/^(HOOKS=.*)$/#\1\nHOOKS=\(base udev autodetect modconf block keyboard zfs filesystems\)/g' /mnt/etc/mkinitcpio.conf cat /mnt/etc/mkinitcpio.conf # verify it - copy
/etc/fstabto new installation:# cp /etc/fstab /mnt/etc/fstab.old # keep old fstab fstabgen -U /mnt >> /mnt/etc/fstab # generate new fstab
- since we mounted
/var/cache/pacmanand/homevia ZFS (non-legacy), we need to remove these entries from the new/mnt/etc/fstabsed -i -E 's/^('"$RPOOL"'\/data.*)$/#\1/g; s/^('"$RPOOL"'\/ROOT\/manjaro\/paccache.*)/#\1/g' /mnt/etc/fstab
- save the variables for use later (optional):
cat > /mnt/root/vars.sh << EOF DISK1=$DISK1 DISK2=$DISK2 RPOOL=$RPOOL BPOOL=$BPOOL EOF - chroot into new installation:
manjaro-chroot /mnt /usr/bin/env DISK1=$DISK1 DISK2=$DISK2 RPOOL=$RPOOL BPOOL=$BPOOL /bin/bash - set timezone:
rm -rf /etc/localtime ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Asia/Bangkok /etc/localtime hwclock --systohc --utc # generate /etc/adjtime and set HW RTC to UTC - generate locales:
sed -iE 's/^#en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/g' /etc/locale.gen # uncomment en_US.UTF-8 locale-gen - set locale systemwide:
export LANG=en_US.UTF-8 export LC_COLLATE=C cat > /etc/locale.conf << EOF LANG=$LANG LC_COLLATE=$LC_COLLATE EOF - set hostname and edit
/etc/hostsfile:# call it whatever you want HOSTNAME=manjaz echo $HOSTNAME > /etc/hostname cat >> /etc/hosts << EOF 127.0.0.1 localhost ::1 localhost 127.0.1.1 $HOSTNAME EOF - Allow members of
wheelgroup to admin machine, and choose 1. or 2.- Uncomment
%wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL--sudowould require a password orsed -E 's|^#?[ \t]*(\%wheel ALL=\(ALL\) ALL.*)$|\1|g' /etc/sudoers | EDITOR=tee visudo - Uncomment
%wheel ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL--sudodoes not require a passwordsed -E 's|^#?[ \t]*(\%wheel ALL=\(ALL\) NOPASSWD.*)$|\1|g' /etc/sudoers | EDITOR=tee visudo
- Uncomment
- enable dhcp client and NTP client:
systemctl enable dhcpcd systemctl enable systemd-timesyncd - make initramfs:
mkinitcpio -P # mkinitcpio -p linux54 - set root password:
echo "root:abc" | chpasswd # change root password to `abc` grep root /etc/shadow # should show: root:$6$.....
- generate mount points for EFI partitions:
mkdir -p /efi1 mkdir -p /efi2
- add 2 EFI partitions to
/etc/fstab# comment everything on /etc/fstab sed -i -E 's/^([^#].*)$/# \1/g' /etc/fstab echo PARTUUID=$(blkid -s PARTUUID -o value ${DISK1}-part1) \ /efi1 vfat nofail,x-systemd.device-timeout=1 0 1 >> /etc/fstab echo PARTUUID=$(blkid -s PARTUUID -o value ${DISK2}-part1) \ /efi2 vfat nofail,x-systemd.device-timeout=1 0 1 >> /etc/fstab - install grub
pacman -S --noconfirm grub efibootmgr # mount /efi1 # mount /efi2 - create
/etc/default/grubZPOOL_VDEV_NAME_PATH=1 grub-probe /boot # should return "zfs" - modify
/etc/default/grub- addzfs=rpool: ref [ grub-error-sparse-file-not-allowed-fix ][[ -f /etc/default/grub.original ]] && cp /etc/default/grub.original /etc/default/grub cp /etc/default/grub /etc/default/grub.original # comment out GRUB_TIMEOUT_STYLE=hidden sed -i -E 's/(^GRUB_TIMEOUT_STYLE=hidden)/#\1/g' /etc/default/grub ## add GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="root=ZFS=$RPOOL/ROOT/default" # sed -i -E 's/(^GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=")/\1root=ZFS='"$RPOOL"'\/ROOT\/manjaro\/root /g' /etc/default/grub # add GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="zfs=$RPOOL" (info from mkinitcpio -H zfs) sed -i -E 's/^(GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=")(.*)$/\1zfs='"$RPOOL"' \2/g' /etc/default/grub # comment out any GRUB_SAVEDEFAULT and write GRUB_SAVEDEFAULT=false # this gets rid of "sparse file not supported" error when GRUB boots sed -i -E 's/^#?(GRUB_SAVEDEFAULT=.*)$/GRUB_SAVEDEFAULT=false\n#\1/g' /etc/default/grub # add GRUB_RECORDFAIL_TIMEOUT=5 sed -i -E 's/(^GRUB_TIMEOUT=)[0-9]+$/\15\nGRUB_RECORDFAIL_TIMEOUT=5/g' /etc/default/grub # remove "quiet" from GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT sed -i -E 's/(^GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=")(.*)(quiet)(.*)(")/\1\2\4\5/g' /etc/default/grub # remove spaces next to quotation marks on GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT sed -i -E 's/(^GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=")([ \t]+)(.*)(")/\1\3\4/g' /etc/default/grub sed -i -E 's/(^GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=")(.*)([ \t]+)(")/\1\2\4/g' /etc/default/grub - run grub-mkconfig and install grub:
ZPOOL_VDEV_NAME_PATH=1 grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg ZPOOL_VDEV_NAME_PATH=1 grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/efi1 --bootloader-id=GRUB - sync the two EFI partitions:
pacman -S --noconfirm rsync rsync -Rai --stats --human-readable --delete --verbose --progress /efi1/./ /efi2 - do efibootmgr on disk2
efibootmgr -c -g -d $DISK2 -p 1 -L "GRUB-2" -l '\EFI\GRUB\grubx64.efi' - double check
/etc/grub/grub.cfgaccording to [this](https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Install_Arch_Linux_on_ZFS#Booting_your_kernel_and_initrd_from_ZFS - start sshd and enable root login (add
PermitRootLogin yesto/etc/ssh/sshd_config):pacman -S --noconfirm openssh sed -i -E 's/^(#PermitRootLogin.*)$/PermitRootLogin yes\n\1/g' /etc/ssh/sshd_config systemctl enable sshd
- comment out all the
zfsfrom/etc/fstabcp /etc/fstab /etc/fstab.original sed -i -E 's/^('"$RPOOL"'.*)$/# \1/g' /etc/fstab sed -i -E 's/^('"$BPOOL"'.*)$/# \1/g' /etc/fstab
- enable
zfs-import-cache.servicezpool set cachefile=/etc/zfs/zpool.cache $BPOOL zpool set cachefile=/etc/zfs/zpool.cache $RPOOL systemctl enable zfs-import-cache.service - add aliases and prompt to
/etc/skel/.bashrc:cat >> /etc/skel/.bashrc << EOF if [[ \$USER != "root" ]]; then PS1="\[\e[01;32m\]\u@\h\[\e[01;34m\] \w \\\\$\[\e[0m\] " else PS1="\[\e[01;31m\]\u@\h\[\e[01;34m\] \w \\\\$\[\e[0m\] " fi alias egrep='egrep --color=auto' alias fgrep='fgrep --color=auto' alias grep='grep --color=auto' alias l='ls -CF' alias la='ls -A' alias ll='ls -alF' alias ls='ls --color=auto' EOF - copy this
.bash_profileand.bashrcto root:[[ ! -f /root/.bash_profile ]] && cp /etc/skel/.bash_profile /root [[ ! -f /root/.bashrc ]] && cp /etc/skel/.bashrc /root - save installation environment variables:
cat > ~/vars.sh << EOF # installation environment DISK1=$DISK1 DISK2=$DISK2 RPOOL=$RPOOL BPOOL=$BPOOL EOF - Exit chroot
exit - unmount filesystem
umount -R /mnt zfs umount -a - export them:
zpool export $RPOOL zpool export $BPOOL - remove live media and prepare to reboot
reboot - after reboot, login as root
- make sure
zfs-import-cache.servicecan find zpool cache.zpool set cachefile=/etc/zfs/zpool.cache zroot # <-- zroot here is our $ZROOT
- edit
/etc/pacman.confand scroll to#IgnorePkgand add:IgnorePkg = linux54-zfs # so this package won't be updated - add more packages:
pacman -S --noconfirm bash-completion pv