On Thu, 30 May 2019 09:38:12 -0700
stan <upaitag(a)zoho.com> wrote:
On Wed, 29 May 2019 12:12:12 -0700
Samuel Sieb <samuel(a)sieb.net> wrote:
Progress report:
I deleted the mbr using gdisk, and put the proper type on the existing
linux partitions, and the install succeeded. I think it was failing
to install because the installer was confused by the labels on the
existing linux partitions not being linux, rather than the mbr.
There are entries in the /boot/loader/entries directory, so it is
BLS. It failed to boot, though, and I am still investigating that.
Looks like this now:
Device Start End Sectors Size Type
/dev/sda1 2097152 4194303 2097152 1G Linux filesystem
/dev/sda2 4194304 6291455 2097152 1G Linux filesystem
/dev/sda3 6291456 48234495 41943040 20G Linux swap
/dev/sda4 48234496 572522495 524288000 250G Linux filesystem
/dev/sda5 572522496 1096810495 524288000 250G Linux filesystem
/dev/sda6 1096810496 5860532223 4763721728 2.2T Linux filesystem
/dev/sda8 6144 2097151 2091008 1021M EFI System
> The installer can only go with the mode it was booted in. For one
> thing, if you aren't in UEFI mode, there is no way to configure the
> boot loader entry.
Maybe this is why it isn't booting, because it didn't declare itself
in UEFI mode during install. Something for me to look into. Do you
know how to examine the /boot/efi partition? Mount keeps telling me
that I am trying to mount it incorrectly,
mount -t vfat /dev/sda8 /mnt/to_efi
dr-xr-xr-x. 2 0 0 system_u:object_r:mnt_t:s0 4096 May 30
09:33 /mnt/to_efi Is there a special type for /boot/efi even though
it is vfat?
# mount -t vfat /dev/sda8 /mnt/to_efi
mount: /mnt/to_efi: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda8, missing
codepage or helper program, or other error.