Hello everybody,
I’m new to this forum and only some expierence with Linux. With that said, I encountered a problem, while trying to reinstall grub. The answer might be very trivial but I couldn’t figure out a solution (searching this forum and looking for answers on other forums)
I followed the instructions (for encrypted systems): https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/the-latest-grub-package-update-needs-some-manual-intervention/30689 but when I try to reinstall grub with grub-install, this error shows up:
[root@EndeavourOS /]# grub-install
Installing for x86_64-efi platform.
grub-install: error: /boot/efi doesn’t look like an EFI partition.
My linux partition is an ext4 and I assume thats the reason for this error.
For context this is the console output:
Console Output
[liveuser@eos-2022.08.28 ~]$ sudo fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 465.76 GiB, 500107862016 bytes, 976773168 sectors
Disk model: Samsung SSD 850
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:
Device Start End Sectors Size Type
/dev/sda1 4096 618495 614400 300M EFI System
/dev/sda2 618496 976768064 976149569 465.5G Linux filesystem
Disk /dev/sdb: 931.51 GiB, 1000204886016 bytes, 1953525168 sectors
...
Partition 1 does not start on physical sector boundary.
Disk /dev/sdc: 14.46 GiB, 15525216256 bytes, 30322688 sectors
Disk model: v212w
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: dos
Disk identifier:
Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/sdc1 * 2048 30322687 30320640 14.5G c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
Disk /dev/loop0: 1.6 GiB, 1720696832 bytes, 3360736 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
[liveuser@eos-2022.08.28 ~]$ sudo lsblk -f
NAME FSTYPE FSVER LABEL UUID FSAVAIL FSUSE% MOUNTPOINTS
loop0
squash 4.0 0 100% /run/archiso/airootfs
sda
├─sda1
│ vfat FAT32 NO_LABEL 05EB-C810
└─sda2
crypto 1 a253cf75-44e0-4935-b360-4085a84f8fa1
sdb
...
sdc
└─sdc1
vfat FAT32 EOS_202208
4A13-8C08 12.7G 12% /run/archiso/bootmnt
[liveuser@eos-2022.08.28 ~]$ sudo cryptsetup open /dev/sda2 mycryptdevice
Enter passphrase for /dev/sda2:
[liveuser@eos-2022.08.28 ~]$ sudo mount /dev/mapper/mycryptdevice /mnt
[liveuser@eos-2022.08.28 ~]$ sudo mount /dev/mapper/mycryptdevice /mnt/b
bin/ boot/
[liveuser@eos-2022.08.28 ~]$ sudo mount /dev/mapper/mycryptdevice /mnt/boot/efi/
[liveuser@eos-2022.08.28 ~]$ sudo arch-chroot /mnt
[root@EndeavourOS /]# grub-install
Installing for x86_64-efi platform.
grub-install: error: /boot/efi doesn't look like an EFI partition.
[root@EndeavourOS /]# exit
exit
[liveuser@eos-2022.08.28 ~]$ sudo lsblk -f
NAME FSTYPE FSVER LABEL UUID FSAVAIL FSUSE% MOUNTPOINTS
loop0
squash 4.0 0 100% /run/archiso/airootfs
sda
├─sda1
│ vfat FAT32 NO_LABEL 05EB-C810
└─sda2
crypto 1 a253cf75-44e0-4935-b360-4085a84f8fa1
└─mycryptdevice
ext4 1.0 0267b39a-6f47-427e-8541-b9a01f0fcf63 350.6G 18% /mnt/boot/efi
/mnt
sdb
...
sdc
└─sdc1
vfat FAT32 EOS_202208
4A13-8C08 12.7G 12% /run/archiso/bootmnt
sdb is a second HDD with some files so I deleted the output to make it more compact.
Thanks for any help/advice in advance!