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YuvarajVelmurugan

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Registered: 2020-11-23

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Which ESP Mount Point Path Is Valid

Which is the correct mount point path for ESP?

1.) /mnt/boot or /mnt/efi as per https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/in … le_layouts

2.) /boot/efi or /efi as per https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/EF … unt_points

3.) /mnt/boot/efi as per YouTube videos

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GaKu999

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Registered: 2020-06-21

Posts: 696

Re: Which ESP Mount Point Path Is Valid

Depends on the setup, and you can do anything on certain setups.

A standard is /boot most of the time statistically, some more special would use ESP and freedesktop BOOT or some other exotic thingy.

And discard every youtube video guide they are useless/outdated/utter garbage and you will not receive any form of support by a derp because of a outdated guide.

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V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

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Re: Which ESP Mount Point Path Is Valid

It doesn't inherently matter. The ESP is "as a partition" completely irrelevant to your running operating system.

It makes sense to mount it to /boot if you intend to use systemd-boot or EFISTUB as you'd otherwise have to do additional configuring to ensure your kernel lands there.

For GRUB or refind or other options that can load the kernel from a linux file system the only time you "need" to mount it is if you want to update the installed EFI binary for the chosen option.

Also your option 1 and 2 say the same thing, 1 is just from the perspective of the install disk because /mnt is where you are expected to chroot into the installed system, the other is what it "should" look like once you are actually in that system.

Last edited by V1del (2020-11-26 08:51:08)