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 Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2024 3:41 pm Post subject: [SOLVED] cannot find a device for /boot/grub |
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On a systemd efi based system I get this error when trying to install grub:
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(chroot) livecd /usr/src/linux # grub-install --efi-directory=/efi
Installing for x86_64-efi platform.
grub-install: error: cannot find a device for /boot/grub (is /dev mounted?).
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What is the problem here? /dev is mounted:
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(chroot) livecd /usr/src/linux # df -l
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
cgroup_root 10240 0 10240 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
udev 10240 0 10240 0% /dev
tmpfs 8147792 0 8147792 0% /dev/shm
none 8147792 956 8146836 1% /run
/dev/nvme0n1p1 1046512 15736 1030776 2% /efi
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Should /dev/nvme0n1p1 also be mounted on /boot as well as /efi?
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| Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2024 9:01 am Post subject: Re: cannot find a device for /boot/grub |
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Is your root partition a BTRFS ?
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Thank you for the links, but my root partition is xfs.
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If no, please give us the output of "parted -l" OR "fdisk -l" AND "lsblk" AND "blkid"
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Disk /dev/nvme0n1: 238.47 GiB, 256060514304 bytes, 500118192 sectors
Disk model: KBG30ZMV256G TOSHIBA
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: CA2F887D-B3CA-4FB0-9EB0-A6F37E55DBC9
Device Start End Sectors Size Type
/dev/nvme0n1p1 2048 2099199 2097152 1G EFI System
/dev/nvme0n1p2 2099200 69208063 67108864 32G Linux swap
/dev/nvme0n1p3 69208064 500117503 430909440 205.5G Linux filesystem
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Full output at: http://codepad.org/0js2T3gp
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(chroot) livecd /usr/src/linux # blkid
/dev/nvme0n1p3: LABEL="rootfs" UUID="9e32abcd-2332-4d3d-b017-55f77a4fb024" BLOCK_SIZE="512" TYPE="xfs" PARTUUID="a33d366f-cdcd-f04e-91d5-b178ad659a0e"
/dev/nvme0n1p1: UUID="35D1-0EEF" BLOCK_SIZE="512" TYPE="vfat" PARTUUID="f4a71f30-ea66-1a4d-ad9b-8f8b31713cc2"
/dev/nvme0n1p2: UUID="59144b48-776e-4c42-82a3-80acbd79efe6" TYPE="swap" PARTUUID="cf6bac77-526c-064b-9e67-80cd42d366a0"
/dev/sdb2: SEC_TYPE="msdos" UUID="2BC0-F849" BLOCK_SIZE="512" TYPE="vfat" PARTLABEL="EFI boot partition" PARTUUID="c3151cc8-c1e4-4638-b7f1-47bb4bde0530"
/dev/sdb3: BLOCK_SIZE="2048" LABEL="ISOIMAGE" TYPE="hfsplus" PARTLABEL="HFSPLUS" PARTUUID="c3151cc8-c1e4-4638-b7f0-47bb4bde0530"
/dev/loop0: TYPE="squashfs"
/dev/sdb4: PARTLABEL="Gap1" PARTUUID="c3151cc8-c1e4-4638-b7f7-47bb4bde0530"
/dev/sdb1: PARTLABEL="Gap0" PARTUUID="c3151cc8-c1e4-4638-b7f2-47bb4bde0530"
/dev/sda1: PARTUUID="cbd8e717-4194-7d4d-89ab-2867944220cf"
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BTW There is nothing preventing you from mounting the same partition on multiple mount points. I just asked since the error message was indicating that it's trying to figure out where /boot/grub is, whereas I would expect /efi/grub would be a better check. |
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| Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2024 10:03 am Post subject: |
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| I will try to re-install using openrc rather than systemd... |
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| Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2024 4:14 pm Post subject: |
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(chroot) livecd /etc/init.d # grub-install --efi-directory=/efi
Installing for x86_64-efi platform.
Installation finished. No error reported.
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That worked at least... |
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