Franco Lopez

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Omarchy Setup Dual boot and Auto-login (manual installation)

Overview

This guide walks through setting up Arch Linux manually with:

  • No LUKS (to enable autologin)
  • limine as the bootloader
  • Larger /boot partition to accommodate multiple kernels
  • Dual boot with Windows 11
  • Omarchy desktop environment (curl -fsSL https://omarchy.org/install | bash)
  • VFIO passthrough using AMD iGPU + NVIDIA RTX 4090
  • Snapshots via BTRFS (optional)

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Arch Linux Setup with VFIO GPU Passthrough

My notes and reference for using AMD iGPU for Host + NVIDIA RTX 4090 for VM (VFIO) on Arch Linux. System Specs Motherboard: Gigabyte B650 GAMING X AX (rev. 1.3) CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D (32 Threads) GPU 1 (Host): AMD iGPU (Raphael, RDNA2) GPU 2 (Passthrough/Optional Host): NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Memory: Corsair Vengeance DDR5 64GB (2×32GB) 5600 MHz CL40 (XMP, CMK64GX5M2B5600C40) OS: Arch Linux (Hyprland) + Windows 11 Pro (separate disk) BIOS Configuration Before installing Arch, reboot into BIOS and configure: Continue reading (3 min read)