After running "mkinitcpio -p linux" i got "Hook 'lvm' cannot be found"

Question

Trying to install Arch with LVM basing on this guide: http://sharpeend.impcode.com/2014/04/installing-arch-linux-with-lvm.html

Partitions:

sda
-system-boot
-systrm-root
-system-home

Solution

You need to install lvm2 (but I suspect you did this already, since you setup-ed your disks with lvm commands!?)

# pacman -S lvm2

Then add the lvm2 hook to the HOOKS= variable in /etc/mkinitcpio.conf:

HOOKS="consolefont keyboard keymap base udev modconf block mdadm_udev encrypt lvm2 resume filesystems autodetect shutdown"

(my config, you won't need all of those, just add the hook before resume filesystems autodetect)

Then redo $ mkinitcpio -p linux

Comments

[Jakob Bennemann]

1) You should only ever use the Beginners' Guide or Official Install Guide (and associated links) to install Arch Linux. Anything else is unsupported and likely radically out-of-date. 2) What do you have in your mkinitcpio.conf?

[David Kariuki]

You only need to install lvm2 after adding lvm2 in the right order at the hooks inside your mkinitcpio.conf file in /etc

[MCH]

My fault, thanks for the link! I edited my answer.