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alexv

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Registered: 2022-01-23

Posts: 8

EFI partition mounted as /boot

I have a weird problem: for some reason EFI partition is mounted as /boot even though I don't have anything about this EFI partition or /boot in my /etc/fstab.
As a result of this, I am having various issues like: 
1. while running "pacman -Syu" the kernel gets upgraded on EFI partition but not on the real /boot partition, causing subsequent booting issue
2. while running grub-mkconfig  -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg, the config under EFI gets updates but not on real boot partition
I have another computer with Arch and it is not happening there.

Any ideas on why it is happening?

Alex

ewaller

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From: Pasadena, CA

Registered: 2009-07-13

Posts: 20,671

Re: EFI partition mounted as /boot

Can you please post the output of mount and of lsblk -f  ?

Edit:  And, check out https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/System … tomounting

Last edited by ewaller (2022-07-12 02:18:41)

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alexv

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Registered: 2022-01-23

Posts: 8

Re: EFI partition mounted as /boot

Ewaller, many thanks for this pointer, never heard about this feature, I think I should be able fix this now.