Arch Linux LVM on LUKS Installation
Continuing with the Tower Plus setup, this live stream covers the installation of Arch Linux on the system. This is a very basic installation, as I plan to do most of the actual configuration of this device using the previously mentioned Ansible role. The goal for this session was simply to get the system booting on its own which, after a minor issue with the bootloader configuration, was successful! The difficulty was caused by a bespoke configuration of encrypted disks for which I had to guess at the correct configuration. Nevertheless, the system is now ready for further configuration. At some point in the past I had created a script to automate Arch installations. This experience has made me think that may be worth recovering and revising for future deployments.
For future reference, the following packages were initially installed:
pacstrap -K /mnt base linux linux-firmware intel-ucode lvm2 dhcpcd vim man-db 17.40s user 10.57s system 83% cpu 33.594 total
and the final filesystem was configured as follows:
$ lsblk
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
loop0 7:0 0 946.7M 1 loop /run/archiso/airootfs
sda 8:0 0 1.8T 0 disk
└─sda1 8:1 0 1.8T 0 part
└─home 253:0 0 1.8T 0 crypt
└─volume--group--b56155f4fbd9-logical--volume--d5214c6d822b /home
253:1 0 1.8T 0 lvm
sdb 8:16 1 14.5G 0 disk
├─sdb1 8:17 1 1.2G 0 part
└─sdb2 8:18 1 248M 0 part
nvme0n1 259:0 0 953.9G 0 disk
├─nvme0n1p1 259:1 0 1G 0 part /boot
└─nvme0n1p2 259:2 0 952.9G 0 part
└─root 253:2 0 952.9G 0 crypt
└─volume--group--86af29d5011e-logical--volume--775b865978eb /
253:3 0 952.9G 0 lvm
/etc/default/grub and /etc/mkinitcpio.conf will be added to the Ansible role for reference.