So, I’ve been having some bugs when I turn on my PC since I installed my GPU, and I figured a possible reason might be that it uses bios instead of uefi, although my motherboard supports uefi.

So I’ve been trying to change that, following the instructions from this reddit comment, cross-referenced with relevant arch wiki articles, all from the archiso key I used to install the OS in the first place. But I’m having trouble with the second-to last step: Mounting the newly created partition at /efi. I added the line

PARTLABEL=esp /efi fat32 defaults 0 2 In /etc/fstab Then I created the /efi directory and tried doing mount /dev/nvme0n1p4 /efi I get an error message telling me it can’t find an ext4 filesystem I don’t know why it’s expecting an ext4, several tutorials agreed it had to be a fat32. Then I try mount -t fat32 /dev/nvme0n1p4 /efi And get mount: /efi: unknown filesystem type ‘fat32’

So… Is it impossible to mount a fat32 system from the arch installation device ? If so, what’s the workaround? If not, is it something else I’m doing wrong?

This had taken me my whole afternoon, and in hindsight I would’ve saved more time reinstalling the whole system. This is not off the table, but the fact that I might be really close to success kinda dissuades me from doing that…

OS: Arch Linux x86_64 Kernel: 6.6.8-arch1-1

  • loaExMachina@sh.itjust.worksOP
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    11 months ago

    Guilty as charged! Thank you, I already did the reinstall. Funny thing is, I followed a shady tutorial for the conversion to gpt. One so suspicious that I probably should 've seen trouble coming- and I did to some extent, enough to make me backup important file before but not enough to fully dissuade me since I hadn’t found anything else nearly as simple. Here is the sustorial . Why so sus ? It’s made by a company that sells a recovery software, which they promote at the end of the article “in case things go wrong”. Such blatant crooks, I feel so dumb for falling for it ! I’ve learnt my lesson now. No more corpo website, only arch wiki and well moderated user communities and forums.

    • BaumGeist
      1·
      11 months ago

      Oh! That’s also an experience I’ve had. Lessons learned and whatnot. Sorry I wasn’t here earlier to chime in and save you some time. Glad you’ve got it working again and learned something along the way, though!