On Fri, 28 Aug 2015 18:57:10 -0400 Christian Demsar <vixsomnis@vczf.io> wrote:
On Wed, Aug 26, 2015, at 10:17 PM, mick wrote:
The disk is currently split into 11 partitions part size code name [...] 2 260mb EF00 EFI system partition [...] when installing I have only used partitions 9, 10 & 11. partitions 1 - 8 were on the disc from the windows pre-install and shrunk to make way for linux.
If you didn't mount your ESP (EFI System Partition), then that's why your installation failed.
You need to mount the partition of type EF00 (EFI System Partition) on /boot. By the looks of it, it's your second partition (if your drive is /dev/sda, then most likely /dev/sda2).
Follow this after you have the partition mounted correctly: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Systemd-boot#EFI_boot
Unless you really need GRUB, you should use bootctl.
the original grub was a big advance for its time but has now it has thrown away its greatest advantage over lilo (open the grub.cfg, edit, save reboot - no compiling the config). NowI hate it. Many thanks to Tobias,Maxwell & Christian, I have now sorted it out. The key mistake was not mounting the ESP partition. For myself, I found the instructions were not as clear as they could be. Perhaps someone who knows better than I could look at them with a critical eye. mick