[SOLVED] Installation on UEFI from usb stick

zidarsk8 · 2013-08-09 12:56:28

your installed system has to have efi (fat32) mounted inside its boot folder

so if you have only two partitions it would be

mount /dev/ext4partition /mnt/arch

then you would have to make the boot folder and efi folder

mkdir -p /mnt/arch/boot/efi

now mount the fat32

mount /dev/fat32partition /mnt/arch/boot/efi

ps: he did cd /mnt/arch before his command and used relative paths, i did it withouth the cd and used absolute paths for clearence

Then end result is theat your system will be mounted in /mnt/arch

and after you boot (or chroot) into arch you will have root "/' an ext4 and "/boot/efi" will be fat32

arkindal · 2013-08-09 13:24:25

cfr wrote:

cd /mnt/arch
mount -t proc proc proc/
mount -t sysfs sys sys/
mount -o bind /dev dev/
mount -t devpts pts dev/pts/

So, all these mount points are missing, should I create them in /mnt/arch/ ?

zidarsk8 · 2013-08-09 13:29:42

yes.

chroot-arch is basically a script that does that for you, but if you're doing that manually, then you have to make the folders too.

arkindal · 2013-08-09 13:39:35

Gave the grub install command like the wiki say.
Apparently worked. Reboot and "boot device not fount".
I wanna cry. I'm gonna start over with the uefi arch iso zidarsk8 provided yesterday and see how it goes.

zidarsk8 · 2013-08-09 14:13:07

did you see the way to check if modprobe efivars worked? ... tell me if that folder has stuff in or if it's emtpy when you run the grub install

also: ... I have a new samsung laptop, with uefi optional. it does not detect a boot device ether. If i let it boot normally from the disk it will fail, if i press escape and select the same disk as the boot device it will start, so now every time i power up or reboot the laptop, I have to press escape. Make sure you don't have anything simmilar (yes computers are magic sometines)

cfr · 2013-08-09 21:35:19

How did you partition the disk? Although WonderWoofy is right in theory that only Windows refuses to boot EFI with an MBR partition table, some firmware is buggy and temperamental. GPT is a safer bet.

Can you post your partition table? That is, the output of either fdisk -l or gdisk -l. (If you used GPT, gdisk is preferable; if you used MBR you need fdisk.)

arkindal · 2013-08-13 23:12:49

Sorry if I didn't post for a while.
I kinda solved with a workaround, I'll leave here how for other users in need.
I started the installation from scratch and I didn't install the bootloader at all, I installed alongside xubuntu and let it manage the bootloader installation.
It's a solution I don't like much but it spared me a whole lot of headaches so I'll live with it.
Next: Learn how to change grub2 options
I liked the old grub better, way easier, I'm gonna have to read the wiki carefully for that.
Thanks everyone for the support, I really appreciate it.
Especially thanks to zidarsk who patiently helped me on irc too and gave me the idea to use ubuntu's installation for the bootloader.

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#26 2013-08-09 12:56:28

Re: [SOLVED] Installation on UEFI from usb stick

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