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Registered: 2025-02-07

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Archinstall and different partitions

Hi everybody,
I've just finished to install ArchLinux manually. I did it manually, because i don't know if it's possible to install automatically with Archinstall when the bootloader is on a different partition.

I explain : I've several disks and i' used SDA2 for Arch, and my /EFI is on SDB1 (with rEFIind and the boots of Ubuntu, Garuda and Arch. When i installed Garuda, it found the /EFI and i got no problem. But, i preferred to install manually, because i don't know if Archinstall finds automatically the /EFI.

Can you tell me if Archinstall is able to find /EFI on another disk or partition ?

Thanks a lot. Excuse my poor English, I'm 70 y. old and i learned English 55 years ago.

Best regards.

negkol

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Registered: 2025-02-08

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Re: Archinstall and different partitions

I guess you can select 'manual partitioning' under 'disk configuration', choose /dev/sdb1, and set its mount point to /EFI.(Similarly, set /dev/sda2 as the root partition (/), etc.)

Archinstall can recognize nvme0n1 and sda1 on my computer, so this setup should work. Haven't tried a real installation, though.

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Re: Archinstall and different partitions

Mod note: moving to Archinstall subforum.

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FeRChImoNdE

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Re: Archinstall and different partitions

It won't work, as Archinstall don't let you mount an existing ESP partiton on /efi (or the old /boot/efi scheme). Only allows mounting on /boot and then the installation will fail as it won't find the loader. So the best thing you could have done is install manually :yeah:

Last edited by FeRChImoNdE (2025-03-07 17:28:06)