Pure systemd in less than 15 minute

[saturnino]

This little How-To is no replacement for Arch-Wiki!!
You will get a working generic setup you can build on, depending on your needs. I recommend consulting the wiki for supplementary information, optimization etc.



install:

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pacman -S systemd systemd-arch-units

Edit or if missing create following systemd configuration files:

Hostname:           - your choice, example is "bridge"
/etc/hostname

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bridge
/etc/hosts         - change "bridge" to your chosen hostname

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127.0.0.1   localhost.localdomain   localhost bridge
::1         localhost.localdomain   localhost bridge
Console and keymap   - change KEYMAP to yours
/etc/vconsole.conf

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KEYMAP=us
FONT=
FONT_MAP=
Timezone
/etc/localtime
Create a symbolic link /etc/localtime to your zone file
see zones in /usr/share/zoneinfo/<Zone>/<SubZone>

Timezonelink:      - change Europe/Monaco to your zone

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ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Monaco /etc/localtime
File Timezone:   - change Europe/Monaco to your zone
/etc/timezone

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Europe/Monaco
Setting up system-wide locale   -Change LANG=    to your language
/etc/locale.conf

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LANG=en_US.UTF-8
Hardware clock: UTC or Localtime.
/etc/adjtime

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hwclock --systohc --utcor

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hwclock --systohc --localtime
/etc/locale.gen   check you have locale.gen in /etc directory

Next Step:

Add init=/bin/systemd to the kernel parameters in your bootloader.

GRUB:
Edit the file /etc/default/grub
put in the line:

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GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="init=/bin/systemd"
Re-generate grub.cfg:

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grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
Then reboot.

After reboot install:

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pacman -S systemd-sysvcompat(you get asked if remove initscrips and sysvinit. Say yes.)

Then remove the kernel parameters:
Edit the file /etc/default/grub
del line:

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GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="init=/bin/systemd"
Re-generate grub.cfg:

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grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
Then enable services with systemctl enable .... Services replace the daemons from rc.conf.
Many services start up by default and you do not need enable them.

Depending on your Displaymanager enable:
KDE:

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systemctl enable kdm.service
GDM:

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systemctl enable gdm.service
LightDM:

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systemctl enable lightdm.service
LXDM:

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systemctl enable lxdm.service
SLIM:

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systemctl enable slim.service
Enable Networkmanager

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systemctl enable NetworkManager.service
DHCP network:

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systemctl enable dhcpcd@eth0.service
Bluetooth if you want:

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systemctl enable bluetooth.service
Other services you can enable you find in the wiki.

Finally restart.

I recommend consulting the wiki for supplementary information, optimization etc.

Good luck!

[mikronimo]

I was waiting for such a howto (simple respect the official wiki); my system run with grub 1 and kernel ck; i have a problem: in my etc/default i have not a file/directory "grub", but i have it in /boot: is it the same thing? If yes, have i to cancell the voice "quiet" (in "menu.lst")

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title Linux CK
root (hd0,3)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-linux-ck root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/93b44415-c84b-49b0-947f-5b3c7702ff64 loglevel=3 ro quiet resume=/dev/disk/by-uuid/74fc86bd-c868-4ffa-a05b-191d41a3dd55 elevator=bfq
initrd /boot/initramfs-linux-ck.img

inserting instead "init=/bin/systemd"? If not, what i have to do? Thanks in advance.

[Ninja-1]

Yeah, GRUB Legacy doesn't have the /etc/default/grub directory. Just add it on the kernel line like the "resume=" and "elevator=" lines in /boot/grub/menu.lst.

[mikronimo]

Like usually, really thanks; tomorrow i'll try the migration; the system it's a big mess every single update; today with the elimination of consolekit i can't mount my external data hd; i read that it's near a new version with both grub2 and systemd; can you conjecture a  date?

[Ninja-1]

I can't give out any concrete dates right now, there's still a bit of work to be done to move Bridge over to systemd by default but I don't think it'll be too bad.

[mikronimo]

Last question: why erase "init=/bin/systemd" from kernel option at the end?

[saturnino]

Adding the line "init=/bin/systemd" to the kernel parameters tells the system to boot with "systemd", but it is still a "mixed" installation. If something would go wrong, you could revert to boot with sysvinit and initscripts, erasing the line "init=/bin/systemd" and correct errors.
If everything works, we change to a "pure" systemd installation, installing "systemd-sysvcompat", wich eliminates sysvinit and initscrips. Therefore the line "init=/bin/systemd" can be eliminated, because /sbin/init is a symlink to systemd now.

[mikronimo]

Ok, thanks a lot. 

[sqlpython]

Good How To!  Applause

[urbanomad]

Brilliant, this just solved all of my startup errors :-)

There's one problem now, how do I get Xfce to startup? I tried a systemctl but the syntax for the other services didn't work.

[Ninja-1]

The Xfce version uses LXDM. "sudo systemctl enable lxdm.service"