Is there any way to modify the grub-install command in ArcoLinux calamares installer?

LeonScoretzka · 09-11-2021, 02:17 PM

I need to append --removable to the grub-install command to actually install Grub. Is there any way to do that in a graphical installer such as ArcoLinux calamares? I tried editing the bootloader.conf and change grub-install line there to include --removable, but that just says that no such file or directory exists. Install log: https://termbin.com/xwz1 without editing the grub-install command.
https://termbin.com/p5cf with --removable

In bootloader.conf, grubInstall section:
grubInstall: "grub-install --removable"

I don't know what to do. Can anyone help me?

colorpurple21859 · 09-11-2021, 06:41 PM

This is your problem from your first link

Quote:

WARNING: system is EFI but no EFI system partitions found.

is the reason your getting grub install errors. You need an efi partition at least 200MB formatted fat32 flagged as esp.

LeonScoretzka · 09-12-2021, 01:02 AM

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Originally Posted by colorpurple21859

This is your problem from your first link

is the reason your getting grub install errors. You need an efi partition at least 200MB formatted fat32 flagged as esp.

"Some motherboard manufacturers seem to only support the /efi/boot/ directory location for the .EFI file in the EFI System Partition (ESP). The GRUB installer can perform this operation automatically with the --removable option. "
- Gentoo wiki

The installer does create an ESP, but my motherboard doesn't like the way it's configured.

syg00 · 09-12-2021, 02:44 AM

Can you just ignore it ?. Most installers do the boot-loader last and if it fails who cares - just chroot into it and fix the loader however you wish.

Haven't touched gentoo in years, and haven't bothered to attempt to munge calamares, so take all this for what it's worth.

LeonScoretzka · 09-12-2021, 02:54 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by syg00

Can you just ignore it ?. Most installers do the boot-loader last and if it fails who cares - just chroot into it and fix the loader however you wish.

Haven't touched gentoo in years, and haven't bothered to attempt to munge calamares, so take all this for what it's worth.

Ok, if I understood this correctly:
1. Install the system
2. Close the installer when GRUB fails to install
3. Chroot into the installed system and execute the grub-install and grub config commands

syg00 · 09-12-2021, 03:01 AM

That would be my take on it - if it doesn't work, nothing lost. I have had to do this on Fedora and apt-based systems, and no noticeable adverse effects. But they had solid bug reporting systems that are acted on. No knowledge of Void's capabilities in this respect.

LeonScoretzka · 09-12-2021, 04:24 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by syg00

That would be my take on it - if it doesn't work, nothing lost. I have had to do this on Fedora and apt-based systems, and no noticeable adverse effects. But they had solid bug reporting systems that are acted on. No knowledge of Void's capabilities in this respect.

It is now saying this:
grub-install: error: failed to get canonical path of /boot/efi

And that's when not chrooted
When chrooted it says:
cannot find a device for /boot/efi (is /dev mounted?)

syg00 · 09-12-2021, 04:46 AM

Did you mount /boot/efi ?.

colorpurple21859 · 09-12-2021, 08:28 AM

The --removable option puts the grubx64.efi in /Boot/bootx64.efi on the efi partition and doesn't register it in the firmware/bios of the system.

Both of your links

Quote:

WARNING: system is EFI but no EFI system partitions found

If the efi partition can't be found there is something wrong with your setup.

post the output of

Code:

lsblk -f

LeonScoretzka · 09-12-2021, 08:52 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by syg00

Did you mount /boot/efi ?.

I did

LeonScoretzka · 09-12-2021, 09:20 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by colorpurple21859

The --removable option puts the grubx64.efi in /Boot/bootx64.efi on the efi partition and doesn't register it in the firmware/bios of the system.

Both of your links
If the efi partition can't be found there is something wrong with your setup.

post the output of

Code:

lsblk -f

lsblk -f:

Code:

NAME FSTYPE FSVER LABEL             UUID                                 FSAVAIL FSUSE% MOUNTPOINTS
loop0
     squash 4.0                                                                0   100% /run/archiso/airootfs
sda                                                                                     
|-sda1
|    exfat  1.0   Ventoy            6EBD-7A57                                           
| `-ventoy
|    iso966 Jolie arcolinuxb-openbox-v21.09.8
|                                   2021-08-07-15-26-22-00                     0   100% /run/archiso/bootmnt
`-sda2
     vfat   FAT16 VTOYEFI           7502-2467                                           
sdb                                                                                     
nvme0n1
|                                                                                       
|-nvme0n1p1
|    vfat   FAT32 NO_LABEL          7681-3B10                                           
`-nvme0n1p2
     ext4   1.0                     34d929a0-f084-40ad-bfac-4f4e0c10f8fb

colorpurple21859 · 09-12-2021, 09:29 AM

post /etc/fstab

LeonScoretzka · 09-12-2021, 09:40 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by colorpurple21859

post /etc/fstab

Code:

# Static information about the filesystems.
# See fstab(5) for details.

# <file system> <dir> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>

Looks like there's nothing there. I wonder why?

colorpurple21859 · 09-12-2021, 09:51 AM

did you post the /etc/fstab of the live system or the /etc/fstab located on partition nvme0n1p2?

LeonScoretzka · 09-12-2021, 09:54 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by colorpurple21859

did you post the /etc/fstab of the live system or the /etc/fstab located on partition nvme0n1p2?

This is the one from the chrooted system:

Code:

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a device; this may
# be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices that works even if
# disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system>             <mount point>  <type>  <options>  <dump>  <pass>
UUID=7681-3B10                            /boot/efi      vfat    umask=0077 0 2
UUID=34d929a0-f084-40ad-bfac-4f4e0c10f8fb /              ext4    defaults,noatime 0 1
/swapfile                                 swap           swap    defaults,noatime 0 0