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rageeph

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Registered: 2021-01-25

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[SOLVED]cant mount boot partition to /boot

when I type mount /dev/sda1 to /boot

it says...

/boot: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda1, missing codepage or helper
program, or other error

I put a partition label of dos on the disk and created the boot partition as 128m for partition 1. I am using a virtual machine and am following the installation guide.

Last edited by rageeph (2021-01-26 23:35:12)

nd925a

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Re: [SOLVED]cant mount boot partition to /boot

What filesystem did you use for the partition?

zpg443

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Re: [SOLVED]cant mount boot partition to /boot

when I type mount /dev/sda1 to /boot

it says...

/boot: wrong fs type

You posted the answer yourself.

Archlin

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Registered: 2018-05-09

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Re: [SOLVED]cant mount boot partition to /boot

when I type mount /dev/sda1 to /boot

I put a partition label of dos on the disk and created the boot partition as 128m for partition 1. I am using a virtual machine and am following the installation guide.

Your putting a dos label on the boot partition?
Guess I need to read the installation guide again, because I missed that part.

rageeph

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Re: [SOLVED]cant mount boot partition to /boot

What filesystem did you use for the partition?

It says type Linux

loqs

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Re: [SOLVED]cant mount boot partition to /boot

What command did you use to create the file-system on the partition?

rageeph

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Re: [SOLVED]cant mount boot partition to /boot

What command did you use to create the file-system on the partition?

I used fdisk /dev/sda

Scimmia

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Re: [SOLVED]cant mount boot partition to /boot

fdisk creates partitions."type linux" is a partition. A filesystem needs to go on that partition.

rageeph

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Re: [SOLVED]cant mount boot partition to /boot

fdisk creates partitions."type linux" is a partition. A filesystem needs to go on that partition.

So what filesystem should I put on it if its needed to mount.

nd925a

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Re: [SOLVED]cant mount boot partition to /boot

If you're using UEFI Fat32 is normally a safe bet for /boot.

mkfs.fat -F32 /foo/bar

Also your boot partition is smaller than the recommended size.

Further reading:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/File_systems
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Partitioning#/boot

rageeph

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Re: [SOLVED]cant mount boot partition to /boot

Ok, I just made that partition ext4 and it worked later on.

nd925a

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Re: [SOLVED]cant mount boot partition to /boot

Cool, btw welcome to arch. Good luck and have fun!

Please edit your original post to put [SOLVED] at the beginning of the title so that people know your question's answered and start a new post if you have further questions.

rageeph

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Re: [SOLVED]cant mount boot partition to /boot

Cool, btw welcome to arch. Good luck and have fun!

Please edit your original post to put [SOLVED] at the beginning of the title so that people know your question's answered and start a new post if you have further questions.

Thank you, but how do I change the topic to [solved]?

2ManyDogs

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Re: [SOLVED]cant mount boot partition to /boot

Thank you, but how do I change the topic to [solved]?

Edit your first post and add [SOLVED] to the title. See "How to post" linked in my signature.

rageeph

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Re: [SOLVED]cant mount boot partition to /boot

Thank you, but how do I change the topic to [solved]?

Edit your first post and add [SOLVED] to the title. See "How to post" linked in my signature.

Ok I got it, did not see the edit located under my question before.

Last edited by rageeph (2021-01-26 23:37:20)