SLOVED: Image generation FAILED: 'bsdtar (step 1) reported an error'

tye · 2023-09-04 01:08:10

I was following the instructions on the instillation wiki, when I got this error while executing "pacstrap -K /mnt base linux linux-firmware" and couldn't find a way around it.

Last edited by tye (2023-09-06 21:56:08)

seth · 2023-09-04 04:14:56

Please post the full error in context (in doubt link a screenshot)
Is your boot partition underdimensioned/full?

tye · 2023-09-04 12:00:26

I'm not sure how to get the error logs from the computer, but it is caused by the EFI partition being too small. I tried to increase the size with gparted, however this did not work. Gparted displayed an error when trying, although the partition reports an increased size (1000M) I still get the same error. I'm hesitant to delete the EFI partition, due to me wanting to duel boot with windows. For the time being I'll try undoing the changes I made with gparted and look into other possible ways to resize the EFI partition.

Last edited by tye (2023-09-04 12:02:17)

seth · 2023-09-04 12:26:18

The /boot directory does not have to be on the ESP (perhaps depending on your bootloader of choice)

tye · 2023-09-04 16:08:21

The weirdest part about all of this is that gparted shows the EFI partition to be full. But the windows disk manager shows it to be completely empty.
I'm quite confused about all of this and why it's not working.
Could you send me a link to how to set up booting not on the ESP?

Last edited by tye (2023-09-04 17:06:00)

seth · 2023-09-04 18:19:25

Could you send me a link to how to set up booting not on the ESP?

I was following the instructions on the instillation wiki

It's hopefully explained on all the relevant bootloader wiki pages that opened when following the installation guide, but

seth wrote:

depending on your bootloader of choice

for grub: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/GRUB#UEFI_systems

tye · 2023-09-06 21:55:05

I resolved this by doing a repair on the EFI partition with the windows installation tool, then expanding it with fdisk.

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