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I'm trying to install arch in a VMWare VM under UEFI.
The problem I'm having is during creation of thepartitions and vlumes. What I'm running:
# partition disks
gdisk /dev/sda
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n 1
512M sector end
Code ef00
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gdisk /dev/sda
n 2
Default sector end
Code 8e00
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# create volumes
pvcreate /dev/sda2
vgcreate volumes /dev/sda2
lvcreate -L 5G volumes -n volroot
lvcreate -C y -L 4G volumes -n volswap
lvcreate -L 2500M volumes -n volvar
lvcreate -l 100%FREE volumes -n volhome
# create filesystems
mkfs.ext4 /dev/volumes/root
mkfs.ext4 /dev/volumes/var
mkfs.ext4 /dev/volumes/home
mkswap /dev/volumes/swap
mkfs.vfat /dev/sda1
# mount root partition
mount /dev/volumes/root /mnt
mkdir /mnt/var /mnt/home
# use /boot rather than /boot/efi for gummiboot
mkdir -p /mnt/boot
# mount non-root volumes and enable swap
mount /dev/volumes/var /mnt/var
mount /dev/volumes/home /mnt/home
swapon /dev/volumes/swap
# ERROR
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/boot
Everything works perfectly fine up until the mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/boot command.
The error I receive is along the lines of "mount: unknown filesystem type 'vfat'
The only times I've seen this error before was during kernel updates, so I'm not sure what's causing it this time. Normally rebooting the machine takes care of it in those cases, but that obviously doesn't help in a live environment.
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I should also mention that if I use the aui installer scripts located at git://github.com/helmuthdu/aui, everything seems to go fine, but when I try to install gummiboot it gives me an error saying the EFI system partition is not a FAT 32 system.
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The problem did turn out to be a kernel update.
The latest Arch ISO has kernel version 3.14.1, whereas pacman -Syu in the live environment upgrades the kernel to 3.14.4.
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