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.