Hi! I am not sure how to tell the installer that my boot partition has an EFI partition subdirectory. That is, I want to mount /dev/nvme1n1p1 to /boot, because that (vfat, EFI System) partition has the following subdirectories:
'$RECYCLE.BIN' BOOT EFI loader NIXOS.txt 'System Volume Information'
This has worked with systemd-boot on NixOS, Arch, etc. I understand that grub is required for the time being, and am happy to change things, but I don’t want to mess up the partition for Windows dual booting.
If I try to specify /boot
as the mount point, the installer says
Failed to find a suitable stage1 device: EFI System Partition must be mounted on one of /boot/efi; EFI System Partition cannot be of type None; …
But I don’t want to create a second EFI partition, and I don’t think I can mount the existing one to /efi
as is. Or can I?
I have a dual-boot (Windows/Linux) LUKS-on-LVM layout as follows:
NAME SIZE TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
nvme0n1 954G disk
├─nvme0n1p1 2G part /boot [EFI System]
├─nvme0n1p2 16M part
├─nvme0n1p3 240G part [Windows]
├─nvme0n1p4 + p5 531G part
│ ├─vg0-lvarch 50G lvm [Old system, ignore]
│ ├─vg0-lvswap 19G lvm
│ │ └─swap 19G crypt [SWAP]
│ ├─vg0-lvhome 400G lvm
│ │ └─home 400G crypt /home
│ └─vg0-lvroot 72G lvm
│ └─root 72G crypt /nix/store
│ /
└─nvme0n1p6 1000M part [Windows Recovery]