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#1 2019-10-16 16:35:20
- D4RK0V3RL0RD676
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Mkinitcpio - automate copying vmlinux and initramfs to efi partition
I have a dual boot setup with windows 10 and arch linux and every time I update and mkinitcpio runs, I have been manually copying the required files to the efi partition (the one made from windows)
$ lsblk
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
nvme0n1 259:0 0 238.5G 0 disk
├─nvme0n1p1 259:1 0 650M 0 part /boot/efi
├─nvme0n1p2 259:2 0 128M 0 part
├─nvme0n1p3 259:3 0 114.3G 0 part
├─nvme0n1p4 259:4 0 32G 0 part /mnt/files
├─nvme0n1p5 259:5 0 78.3G 0 part /
├─nvme0n1p6 259:6 0 990M 0 part
├─nvme0n1p7 259:7 0 11G 0 part
└─nvme0n1p8 259:8 0 1.1G 0 part
so initramfs-linux.img and vmlinuz-linux appear in /boot, but I copy them to /boot/efi/
/boot/efi/loader/entries/arch.conf:
title Arch Linux
linux /vmlinuz-linux
initrd /initramfs-linux.img
options root=UUID=1edb873a-3688-4e3c-a15a-dfbe6e321777 rw
the uuid above is the one for /dev/nvme0n1p5 which is mounted as /
If I try changing the configurations path to use /boot/vmlinuz-linux or something like that, it doesnt work. Is there a good solution for getting loader to see the files on a different partition or to automate copying over the files to the efi partition?
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#2 2019-10-16 16:47:49
- jasonwryan
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Re: Mkinitcpio - automate copying vmlinux and initramfs to efi partition
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#3 2019-10-16 16:48:38
- V1del
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Re: Mkinitcpio - automate copying vmlinux and initramfs to efi partition
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Systemd-boot does only support loading EFI binaries from the EFI partition. If you actually want to have them on your linux filesystem you would have to use another bootloader.
As for automating copying, you could use a pacman hook ordered after the mkinitcpio hook to do the copying, or just mount the ESP to /boot instead of /boot/efi so that the images get written directly.
Last edited by V1del (2019-10-16 16:50:15)
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