https://github.com/alexandrecarlton/packer-archlinux
Packer template to deploy and provision my Arch Linux setup
https://github.com/alexandrecarlton/packer-archlinux
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Packer template to deploy and provision my Arch Linux setup
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/alexandrecarlton/packer-archlinux
- Owner: AlexandreCarlton
- Created: 2016-08-21T12:03:48.000Z (almost 9 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2022-11-27T11:20:26.000Z (over 2 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-02-28T05:57:34.536Z (3 months ago)
- Language: Shell
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- Size: 71.3 KB
- Stars: 5
- Watchers: 2
- Forks: 1
- Open Issues: 0
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
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# packer-archlinux
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Packer template to deploy and provision my Arch Linux setup.
The resulting machine has two partitions:
- A small boot partition
- A swap partition
- An encrypted root partition
This will set both the root and user passwords to 'vagrant', and the encryption password to 'password'.
## Installing on a real machine
You can use this project to install Arch on a physical computer too. After jumping into the virtual console:
Install a basic archlinux set up:
```bash
$ systemctl restart dhcpcd # ethernet
$ wifi-menu # wi-fi
$ pacman -Syy
$ pacman -S git
$ git clone --recursive https://github.com/AlexandreCarlton/packer-archlinux.git
$ cd packer-archlinux/http
$ ./install.sh /dev/sda
```
This will reboot the system.
Pull down the `ansible-archlinux` repository and run the playbook you desire:
```bash
$ git clone --recursive https://github.com/AlexandreCarlton/ansible-archlinux.git
$ cd ansible-archlinux
$ ansible-playbook --connection=local .yml
```
Now that your system is set up, remember to change your passwords:
```bash
$ sudo cryptsetup --verify-passphrase --key-slot=0 luksChangeKey /dev/sda3
$ passwd
```
(Thought: what if we just enabled `sshd`, and provisioned remotely?)
### Issues
I've had a few issues here and there, so I figured I would record some of them
here and the workarounds used to circumvent them.
### Radeon
On boot, I kept getting an error message similar to:
```
[ 1.000000] [drm:.r600_ring_test [radeon]] *ERROR* radon: ring 0 test failed (scratch(0x8504)=0xCAFEDEAD)
[ 1.000000] radeon 000:10:00.0: disabling GPU acceleration
```
Hopping into the bios and turning off switchable graphics detection and using
integrated graphics appeared to solve this.
### Helpful links
- [Rfkill issues on Lenovo T420 whilst running connman and wpa_supplicant](https://ianweatherhogg.com/tech/2015-08-05-rfkill-connman-enable-wifi.html)
## Upgrading
To use newer ISO files, you'll have to edit:
- `iso_url`, pointing to a new url
- `iso_checksum`, found on the [Downloads](https://www.archlinux.org/download/) page, under "Checksum"
## Rolling back
If you've borked your system for whatever reason, simply find the snapshot you
wanted to revert to and in your bootflags go:
rootflags=subvol=@/.snapshots//snapshot
And you'll boot into that snapshot.
This can be made into a new, default snapshot with `snapper rollback`.
## Testing in CI
Both Travis CI and AppVeyor do not run virtual machine workers with VT-X
enabled.
This prevents the launching of 64-bit virtual machines inside the workers, so
we are unable to test an actual build to see if it works; at best, we can
validate the `archlinux.json` file.
## Development
Building the entire box from scratch takes a long time, especially if you want
to test a small role. For this reason, you can build a minimal ArchLinux box
with:
```
packer build archlinux-base.json
```
You can then build a new box based on this with:
```
packer build -on-error=ask archlinux-development.json
```
If a step fails, the VM will remain present so that it can be debugged.