On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 3:03 PM Samuel Sieb <sam...@sieb.net> wrote: > On 1/10/19 11:10 AM, Richard Shaw wrote: > > I was able to tie in the Windows created EFI partition and just > > reinstalled the packages that install all the files instead of moving > > the files back over... Windows created a "Boot" folder under EFI and > > Fedora created a "BOOT" folder and I wasn't sure which one to use (or if > > it mattered). > > You have two folders, one named Boot and one named BOOT? That shouldn't > be possible because the EFI partition is FAT32 which is not case-sensitive. >
Yes, but the original Fedora installation installed the files in the main boot partition which is ext4. > On a side note, one problem I had is that grub2-mkconfig produced NO > > output when running under a chroot. I probably spent a good two hours on > > that alone which is partially why I gave up and decided to reinstall. > > After running "ps auf" while it was hung I figured out that it's the vgs > > call that was hanging. vgs couldn't talk to lvmeatd or whatever it's > > called. I never really found a direct solution but caught a reference > > about it not being able to find the runfile in /run so on a whim I added > > "mount --rbind /run /mnt/fedora/run" and voila, it worked! I've never > > needed to do that before... > > If you just chroot, you won't have access to /dev, /proc, /run, etc. > The easiest option is to use a netinstall image and boot into the rescue > mode. That will automatically mount all the extra filesystems for you > in the chroot. (If you do use that option, you will probably want to > remove the /.autorelabel file when you're done, just make sure you have > messed up any labels.) > The message was already long but I did all the needed mounts (proc, sys, dev) I just had to add /run to that for grub2-mkconfig to work. Thanks, Richard
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