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josep

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From: Peru

Registered: 2022-06-06

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[SOLVED] can't mount EFI in nvme

I was trying to install Arch in a dualboot ecosystem, but I encounter this error:

mount: /boot/efi: special device /nvme0n1/nvme0n1p1 does not exist.
       dmesg(1) may have more information after failed mount system call.
mount: (hint) your fstab has been modified, but systemd still uses
       the old version; use 'systemctl daemon-reload' to reload.

This is my lsblk:

NAME        MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
loop0         7:0    0 688.2M  1 loop
sda           8:0    0 931.5G  0 disk
├─sda1        8:1    0    50G  0 part /
└─sda2        8:2    0 881.5G  0 part /home
sdb           8:16   1   7.3G  0 disk
└─sdb1        8:17   1   7.3G  0 part
nvme0n1     259:0    0 465.8G  0 disk
├─nvme0n1p1 259:1    0   100M  0 part
├─nvme0n1p2 259:2    0    16M  0 part
├─nvme0n1p3 259:3    0   465G  0 part
└─nvme0n1p4 259:4    0   610M  0 part

nvme0n1p1 is the EFI partition on windows

Here is my blkid:

/dev/nvme0n1p3: BLOCK_SIZE="512" UUID="5ADAD14FDAD127D1" TYPE="ntfs" PARTLABEL="Basic data partition" PARTUUID="034fb53e-8fba-48a0-a6b3-0136f33703c3"
/dev/nvme0n1p1: UUID="6AC5-541B" BLOCK_SIZE="512" TYPE="vfat" PARTLABEL="EFI system partition" PARTUUID="3bbf80dd-7b47-48e0-92cf-c87b101dad95"
/dev/nvme0n1p4: BLOCK_SIZE="512" UUID="564E8F7F4E8F56A1" TYPE="ntfs" PARTUUID="4b184176-c91a-485e-8199-56b1ecfeacb4"
/dev/nvme0n1p2: PARTLABEL="Microsoft reserved partition" PARTUUID="07a57eeb-fa05-47f0-a048-ba9831deca98"
/dev/sdb1: LABEL="ARCH_202206" UUID="2096-2BBD" BLOCK_SIZE="512" TYPE="vfat" PARTLABEL="Main Data Partition" PARTUUID="e3990c39-ddfc-42c5-8812-4033ba5b683f"
/dev/loop0: TYPE="squashfs"
/dev/sda2: UUID="d4b49168-89d9-45b2-bfb1-283d76787815" BLOCK_SIZE="4096" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="0ed81e5d-6620-5941-8630-dcfdb531e6f7"
/dev/sda1: UUID="f905a9c7-97ba-45eb-8780-47dc630a80e9" BLOCK_SIZE="4096" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="12373edb-fa34-b14f-888d-1b2d006d8081"

Please, what am I doing wrong?

Last edited by josep (2022-06-06 21:07:01)

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

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Re: [SOLVED] can't mount EFI in nvme

Post your fstab. I'm guessing it has (or had, based on the message) /nvme0n1/nvme0n1p1, obviously isn't a correct path.

josep

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From: Peru

Registered: 2022-06-06

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Re: [SOLVED] can't mount EFI in nvme

Post your fstab. I'm guessing it has (or had, based on the message) /nvme0n1/nvme0n1p1, obviously isn't a correct path.

# Static information about the filesystems.
# See fstab(5) for details.

# <file system> <dir> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
# /dev/sda1
UUID=f905a9c7-97ba-45eb-8780-47dc630a80e9       /               ext4            rw,relatime     0 1

# /dev/sda2
UUID=d4b49168-89d9-45b2-bfb1-283d76787815       /home           ext4            rw,relatime     0 2

josep

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From: Peru

Registered: 2022-06-06

Posts: 28

Re: [SOLVED] can't mount EFI in nvme

Post your fstab. I'm guessing it has (or had, based on the message) /nvme0n1/nvme0n1p1, obviously isn't a correct path.

so I have to format it to FAT32? and then mount it?

I think that might result on a data loss with my already OS installation (Windows)

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

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Re: [SOLVED] can't mount EFI in nvme

When are you getting that error, exactly?

josep

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From: Peru

Registered: 2022-06-06

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Re: [SOLVED] can't mount EFI in nvme

When I try to do

mount /nvme0n1/nvme0n1p1 /boot/efi

to my existing EFI system partition

Last edited by josep (2022-06-06 20:59:13)

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

Posts: 13,729

Re: [SOLVED] can't mount EFI in nvme

ok, the error led me to believe it was systemd doing the mount at boot, so I misinterpreted what's going on.

Read the path you gave it vs what's shown in blkid.

josep

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From: Peru

Registered: 2022-06-06

Posts: 28

Re: [SOLVED] can't mount EFI in nvme

ok, the error led me to believe it was systemd doing the mount at boot, so I misinterpreted what's going on.

Read the path you gave it vs what's shown in blkid.

Oh, okay, that makes sense. Sorry for wasting your time.

I'll replace /nvme0n1/nvme0n1p1 to /dev/nvme0n1p1

Thanks!