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jon.reeve

Member

Registered: 2013-04-29

Posts: 22

grub-install: error: Can't create file: No such file or directory.

I'm having difficulty installing GRUB. When I'm chrooted in the system, and run the command:

grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot

I get this error:

Installing for x86_64-efi platform.
grub-install: error: Can't create file: No such file or directory.
grub-install says: grub-install: error: Can't create file: No such file or directory. 

I've followed all the instructions correctly, AFAIK. I'm following this guide in the Mac Arch wiki article for installing to a Mac. That seems to be just the installation guide with a few tweaks, such as an HFS+ boot partition. I have an HFS+ boot partition, with my install target mounted to /mnt and the boot partition mounted to /mnt/boot. When chrooted into the install, I can verify that /boot contains my boot partition contents.

How can I fix this so that I can install GRUB?

anatolik

Developer

Registered: 2012-09-27

Posts: 458

Re: grub-install: error: Can't create file: No such file or directory.

The grub error message is not very informative. To find what exactly file it is looking for use strace tool:

strace -e file grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot

Last edited by anatolik (2017-01-11 22:40:49)

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