90 Days In Arch Week 1 Let's talk about kernels

 Alright so I talked  about getting the Cachy OS Kernel running on Arch Linux

Open your favorite terminal and type out some commands. 


Donwload the CachyOS Repos


curl https://mirror.cachyos.org/cachyos-repo.tar.xz -o cachyos-repo.tar.xz ; tar xvf cachyos-repo.tar.xz


Change Dirrectory to where you downloaded the mirror data


cd cachyos-repo


Run the file for the repo


sudo ./cachyos-repo.sh

 

Update your system


sudo pacman -Syu


Now that we have that let's donwload CachyOS Kernel Manager. This is the program that handles selecting Kernels and installing them on a CachyOS system. We want this for our Arch system. This program is not part of the base AUR (Arch User Repository). So we needed to add the repo's for CachyOS like we did above.

Install CachyOS Kernel Manager


sudo pacman -S cachyos-kernel-manager


Now you may run into an out of date issue with your download. If that is the case run this command it will sync everything up all nice and pretty.


sudo pacman -Syyu --noconfirm


Okay let's load up CachyOS Kernel Manager from the Meta Menu by typing Kernel and selecting CachyOS Kernel Manager.




Click the menu tab that says version twice so that it shows at the top of the list the most latest versions.


You will see in my screenshot that I already have a few options already installed. In my case I will just select one to demonstrate how to use it. You will need to research and find one that is right for you. 


Once you find the Kernel you want to adopt. Click execute.





This will open a terminal. WARNING: If you are running other things using pacman you're gonna have a bad time and it may not work. I don't know why that is, but it says it on the main screen of the Kernel manager.



Now just press y and then enter and let it do it's magic. 


At the end it will show the screen below and it's as simple as pressing enter to close. You're new kernel is installed but you still need your bootloader to see it. If you are on anything other than GRUB. Best of luck I don't know how to help you. I used my one reset of this month to make the change to grub. Maybe someone will comment below on how to do this.




Alright final stretch here. Let's make grub say as you wish master. Open a terminal again and past this command. 



sudo grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg


That's it you are set you just need to reboot and select the advanced options in the GRUB menu and select your Kernel.


That's all I have for your today. 

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