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Sairaight

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Registered: 2013-12-25

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[SOLVED] gummiboot install error - newbie installation

Hello everybody,

I am installing Arch for the first time and therefore I'm using all those tutorials on wiki. It went along with the tutorial for beginners pretty well until this step: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Be … #Gummiboot
In previous steps I didn't create two partitions (one for / and one for /home), but I partitioned my disk (240GB SSD) this way:
output of lsblk /dev/sdb (sda is my bootable flash drive)
sdb1 550MB part
sdb2 40GB   part
sdb3 6GB     swap
sdb4 40GB   part
the rest is unallocated free space. I run new HP laptop, therefore I tried to install the Arch as UEFI + Secure boot (I set it that way in startup options). I created 550MB ESP partition and I surely did apply commnad:
mkfs.fat -F32 /dev/sda1.
I used for partitioning cgdisk and I selected sda1 as a EF00, sdb2 as ext4 and sdb3 as swap. I made sdb4 0700 as I remember (windows basic data)

the problem is, that now, as I am tring to install gummiboot, the "gummiboot install" command gives me this message:
"Filesystem /boot is not a FAT EFI System Partition (ESP) file system"

can someone please help me, how to make it working now?

thanks

Last edited by Sairaight (2013-12-25 19:44:42)

Scimmia

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Re: [SOLVED] gummiboot install error - newbie installation

mkfs.fat -F32 /dev/sda1.

Post typo or actual mistake?

Do you have the partitions mounted?

Sairaight

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Registered: 2013-12-25

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Re: [SOLVED] gummiboot install error - newbie installation

sdb1, just a typo

I believe i succesfully got through this part: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Be … partitions
I mounted only sdb2/ as /mnt
and then I did that part for UEFI booting
lsblk gives me mountpoint /mnt for sdb2 and SWAP as sdb3, unfortunately no mountpoint for sdb1

and I have only two disks in /mnt/etc/fstab file- filesystem and swap.
Is it possible that something went wrong while creating ESP partition?

Last edited by Sairaight (2013-12-25 17:26:55)

Sairaight

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Re: [SOLVED] gummiboot install error - newbie installation

I tried to do step mkfs.fat -F32 ... again and again install the system and now it has a mountpoint in lsblk. It looks like I missed something. Sorry for bothering

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Re: [SOLVED] gummiboot install error - newbie installation

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