Hi!
I've had several problems with my pc so i decided to start from a completely fresh installation.
I've deleted all the partitions on my hdd and created new ones, this is the configuration /dev/sda1 (primary, ntfs) efi partition (100mb) /dev/sda2 (exteded) (all the rest) /dev/sda5 (inside sda2, ntfs) windows (100gb) /dev/sda6 (inside sda2, ext4) linux (100gb) /dev/sda7 (inside sda2, ext4) swap (4gb) /dev/sda8 (inside sda2, ntfs) shared (all the rest)
I absolutely don't care about loosing data (actually i already did) but i just like to have my pc working.
Right now i've managed to run linux mint 17.2 from a usb but when i try to execute sudo ./install.sh --root /media/mint/EFI/ (where the path is where the virgin EFi partition is mounted) it tells me that the ESP doesn't seem to be mounted and that that partition doesnt' seem to be on a VFAT filesystem.
What should i do now?
Thank you very much for your help,
have a great day!
Ian
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To use rEFInd, you need EFI firmware and you need to be booting that EFI firmware in its native EFI mode, not in BIOS mode. Although this doesn't technically require a GPT disk, GPT is almost always used when booting in EFI mode, and some systems will flake out if you try to boot from an MBR disk in GPT mode. You've described /dev/sda1 as "primary" and /dev/sda2 as "extended," though, and this implies you're using MBR on the disk. Thus, my suspicion is that you've erred on this score. You should start over again, but ensure that you're using GPT. (You can convert an existing MBR disk to GPT by using gdisk; see this page for details.)
You've described your /dev/sda1 as being both an "efi partition" and "ntfs." An EFI System Partition (ESP), however, must use FAT. Personally, I'd make it 550MiB, too, since some EFIs have problems with FAT32 partitions much smaller than that, and others have problems with FAT16.
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Hi!
I've had several problems with my pc so i decided to start from a completely fresh installation.
I've deleted all the partitions on my hdd and created new ones, this is the configuration
/dev/sda1 (primary, ntfs) efi partition (100mb)
/dev/sda2 (exteded) (all the rest)
/dev/sda5 (inside sda2, ntfs) windows (100gb)
/dev/sda6 (inside sda2, ext4) linux (100gb)
/dev/sda7 (inside sda2, ext4) swap (4gb)
/dev/sda8 (inside sda2, ntfs) shared (all the rest)
I absolutely don't care about loosing data (actually i already did) but i just like to have my pc working.
Right now i've managed to run linux mint 17.2 from a usb but when i try to execute
sudo ./install.sh --root /media/mint/EFI/(where the path is where the virgin EFi partition is mounted) it tells me that the ESP doesn't seem to be mounted and that that partition doesnt' seem to be on a VFAT filesystem.What should i do now?
Thank you very much for your help,
have a great day!
Ian
You've got two major problems:
/dev/sda1as "primary" and/dev/sda2as "extended," though, and this implies you're using MBR on the disk. Thus, my suspicion is that you've erred on this score. You should start over again, but ensure that you're using GPT. (You can convert an existing MBR disk to GPT by usinggdisk; see this page for details.)/dev/sda1as being both an "efi partition" and "ntfs." An EFI System Partition (ESP), however, must use FAT. Personally, I'd make it 550MiB, too, since some EFIs have problems with FAT32 partitions much smaller than that, and others have problems with FAT16.