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Gabachin

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Registered: 2022-05-06

Posts: 92

What did I do wrong?

Noob question that has been bugging me. I have installed vanilla Arch several times and have gotten to the point that I do not need the wiki to do it. On my last setup I had a boot, root and home partition. No swap partition. I wanted to do a fresh install keeping my home partition, but instead of repeating the steps in the wiki, I was going to cheat a bit and use the installer. So I formatted root and boot, left home alone, mounted root to /mnt, boot to mnt/boot/efi and home to /mnt/home. Then I launched the installer, and used the "previously mounted" option in the disk configuration section. When prompted for the mount point of the root partition, I put /mnt. I selected grub as the bootloader. The install failed with the dreaded failed to get canonical path of `/boot/efi' error. What did I do wrong?

Last edited by Gabachin (2024-04-11 16:54:22)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 21,831

Re: What did I do wrong?

You need to mount things logically towards the intended system. So your intended /boot/efi should've been mounted to /mnt/boot/efi.

When prompted for the mount point of the root partition, the installer will chroot into /mnt at which points all mounts under that go to their "logical root", so from your original list you have /mnt -> / /mnt/home -> /home ... /boot/efi --> ??? (it's not mounted to a path that would be valid inside a chroot)

Moving to the guided installer subsection.

Last edited by V1del (2024-04-11 16:46:18)

Gabachin

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Registered: 2022-05-06

Posts: 92

Re: What did I do wrong?

Yes, I did that. It is a typo in my original post. I will correct. Thanks.