#[SOLVED] stuck at “substitute esp with its mount point”

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upper hamlet
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Hi so this is my first time with any Linux distro in general and I’m installing standard arch from the guide on the wiki and I don’t know what to do here

Then follow the below steps to install GRUB to your disk:

Mount the EFI system partition and in the remainder of this section, substitute esp with its mount point.
Choose a boot loader identifier, here named GRUB. A directory of that name will be created in esp/EFI/ to store the EFI binary and this is the name that will appear in the UEFI boot menu to identify the GRUB boot entry.
Execute the following command to install the GRUB EFI application grubx64.efi to esp/EFI/GRUB/ and install its modules to /boot/grub/x86_64-efi/.
Note:
Make sure to install the packages and run the grub-install command from the system in which GRUB will be installed as the boot loader. That means if you are booting from the live installation environment, you need to be inside the chroot when running grub-install. If for some reason it is necessary to run grub-install from outside of the installed system, append the --boot-directory= option with the path to the mounted /boot directory, e.g --boot-directory=/mnt/boot.
Some motherboards cannot handle bootloader-id with spaces in it.

grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=esp --bootloader-id=GRUB

It says I should substitute “esp” with the mount point of my efi partition
I mounted my efi partition to mnt/boot. What do I type in instead of esp?

novel magnet
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/boot

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u are chrooted right?

upper hamlet
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Yes

novel magnet
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Alright so /mnt is now /

upper hamlet
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I tried “boot” but not /boot

novel magnet
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thats why it is /boot

upper hamlet
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Same thing “/boot doesn’t look like an efi partition”

novel magnet
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fdisk -l

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show me the output

upper hamlet
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In chroot?

novel magnet
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umm

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try

upper hamlet
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Image?

novel magnet
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Yep

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or

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.s rs

normal boltBOT
upper hamlet
novel magnet
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and u made the filesystems?

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and u did mout all those partitions?

upper hamlet
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I believe so

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I mounted them as the guide said

novel magnet
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u believe?

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go out of chroot with exit and type mount | grep sda

upper hamlet
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Root to mnt efi to mnt boot and swap got swap on dev

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This is the output

novel magnet
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seems right

upper hamlet
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Although when I did mkfs.fat on this one it failed to write to fat so maybe that’s it

novel magnet
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.... well unmount it and do that

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mkfs.fat -F32

upper hamlet
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Umount all yes?

novel magnet
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only boot

upper hamlet
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It says /mnt/boot not mounted

novel magnet
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dry with the partition name

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/dev/sda1

upper hamlet
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I did that

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I should have done umount/mnt/boot first?

novel magnet
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and check if its gone

upper hamlet
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Same thing as last time both mounted

novel magnet
upper hamlet
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When you told me to umount I did “umount /dev/sda1”

novel magnet
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and that executed fine?

upper hamlet
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Both returned “umount: /mnt/boot: not mounted”

novel magnet
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O.o

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umount -R /mnt

upper hamlet
novel magnet
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where are u isntalling arch?

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nvm sdb is the usb

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reboot

upper hamlet
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Into installlation drive yes?

novel magnet
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Yep

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and then u do the mkfs.fat -F32 thing

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and then u can mount them again

upper hamlet
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Is it normal the device makes a really loud hardware beep

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Every time I reboot into live usb

novel magnet
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Like a coin sound?

upper hamlet
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Yes

novel magnet
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Yep

upper hamlet
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I know to expect it but it still scares me

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Same as always

novel magnet
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does that file exist?
/etc/multipath.conf

upper hamlet
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Nope

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Does it have to be mounted to see?

novel magnet
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no

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The disk is prob dead then

upper hamlet
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It might be

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It’s highly probable actually

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Such a shame I hoped I’d be able to revive this laptop but it wasn’t the system that got fucked

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At least looks like it

novel magnet
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well just buy a cheap hhd or something

rough flame
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ssd

novel magnet
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maybe u have one laying around somewhere

novel magnet
rough flame
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cheap hdd are just slow lol

upper hamlet
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Although I could have sworn that I was able to make fat once then never again

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And any wipefs stuff I did didn’t properly remove the tables

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Because even after wipefs and gdisk x z the disk remembered that the second partition was a swap one

umbral forum
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@upper hamlet status?

upper hamlet
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How do I?

umbral forum
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upper hamlet
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Well I was able to find a spare hard drive multiple actually so I’ll retry the whole process and then I’ll be able to see. But just to not waste anybodys time I’ll just close this and perhaps reopen or make a new one later

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[SOLVED] stuck at “substitute esp with its mount point”

umbral forum
upper hamlet
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Funny you should say I am once again at this step this very moment

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stuck at “substitute esp with its mount point”

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upper hamlet
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So the partition didn’t have problems writing to fat that’s good

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But now

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Ok acteuzlly no error the location was supposed to =boot and not =/boot

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[SOLVED] stuck at “substitute esp with its mount point”

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... solved

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rough flame
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crazy

upper hamlet
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But initially the problem WAS the disk being fucked

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This is done on an entirely different hard drive