dual boot guidance needed.

nixIT · 2019-12-16 04:23:41

Hello all,

finally updated my laptop to current technology, after spending all day getting this thing on the internet and trying to install in a dual boot, I am in a pickle.

I am at the point in the install where I install a bootloader, though I'm dual booting with windows so I can get updates to my thinkpad. Following the wiki for dual booting has taken me to this page:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Du … FI_systems

and that takes me here:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/EF … _partition

I am on mounting the ESP partition:

[root@archiso boot]# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/nvme0n1: 953.89 GiB, 1024209543168 bytes, 2000409264 sectors
Disk model: SAMSUNG MZVLB1T0HALR-000L7              
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: 46075D52-3D1E-4A82-867A-C191D2565C43

Device             Start        End    Sectors   Size Type
/dev/nvme0n1p1      2048     534527     532480   260M EFI System
/dev/nvme0n1p2    534528     567295      32768    16M Microsoft reserved
/dev/nvme0n1p3    567296   83480575   82913280  39.5G Microsoft basic data
/dev/nvme0n1p4  83480576  181137407   97656832  46.6G Linux filesystem
/dev/nvme0n1p5 181137408  220198911   39061504  18.6G Linux filesystem
/dev/nvme0n1p6 220198912 2000408575 1780209664 848.9G Linux filesystem

my EFI partition (windows) is partition 1, so following the mount the ESP partition from link above I have this:

mount /dev/nvme0n1p1 /boot/efi
mount: /boot/efi: unknown filesystem type 'vfat'.

I also tried mounting to /efi and /boot. same vfat error.

I've spent the entire day forum surfing, googling, and it's been 12 hours since I started this. I always seem to run into issues one way or another when installing arch.
do I mount this partition as I am partition my hard drives BEFORE I run pacstrap? after I install and go into chroot?

my brain is dead.

can anyone offer any guidance as to why I'm getting this error.

--nixIT

Scimmia · 2019-12-16 04:37:25

You should mount everything before pacstrap, but in this case, it shouldn't cause a problem to do it after pacstrap before you chroot.

nixIT · 2019-12-16 05:08:44

@Scimmia,

Thanx for the quick reply. I did it after pacstrap and after my chroot. Would that cause the "unknown filesystem type vfat" error? I shut it down for the night, going to start over tomorrow. everything is a learning experience.

Scimmia · 2019-12-16 05:18:22

The vfat module needs to be loaded from the USB, not from the installed system. I'm not certain how the on-demand loading of the module is handled internally, but it's very possible that it was looking at the installed system inside the chroot and not finding it.

Arch Linux

#1 2019-12-16 04:23:41

dual boot guidance needed.

#2 2019-12-16 04:37:25

Re: dual boot guidance needed.

#3 2019-12-16 05:08:44

Re: dual boot guidance needed.

#4 2019-12-16 05:18:22

Re: dual boot guidance needed.

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