[Solved] grub-install, real: error: cannot find EFI directory

[farkas]

At the end of running Update Manager I get an error message.
So far it has not caused any other problems, everything else is working.
I upgrade to Mint 19 from 18.3 and it went smoothly.
I'm attaching screen shots of the error messages.

[gm10]

Go Mint menu > Disks and find the partition with Partition Type: EFI System and make sure it is mounted and gets mounted at system startup (cogs icon > edit mount options) as /boot/efi, then try again.

If there is any doubt, copy & paste the output of these terminal commands into your next post and we'll talk you through it:

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inxi -Fxzp

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lsblk -f

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cat /etc/fstab

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df -h /boot/efi

[farkas]

Here is a screen shot of Mount Options and the outputs of the commands

steve@steve ~ $ inxi -Fxzp
System: Host: steve Kernel: 4.15.0-33-generic x86_64 bits: 64 gcc: 7.3.0
Desktop: Cinnamon 3.8.9 (Gtk 3.22.30-1ubuntu1)
Distro: Linux Mint 19 Tara
Machine: Device: desktop System: ASUS product: All Series serial: N/A
Mobo: ASUSTeK model: Z97-A-USB31 v: Rev 1.xx serial: N/A
UEFI: American Megatrends v: 2501 date: 06/24/2015
Battery hidpp__0: charge: N/A condition: NA/NA Wh
model: Logitech Wireless Mouse M325 status: Discharging
CPU: Quad core Intel Core i5-4690K (-MCP-)
arch: Haswell rev.3 cache: 6144 KB
flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx) bmips: 28002
clock speeds: max: 4300 MHz 1: 4300 MHz 2: 4298 MHz 3: 4274 MHz
4: 4300 MHz
Graphics: Card: NVIDIA GM206 [GeForce GTX 950] bus-ID: 01:00.0
Display Server: x11 (X.Org 1.19.6 )
drivers: nouveau (unloaded: modesetting,fbdev,vesa)
Resolution: 1920x1080@60.00hz
OpenGL: renderer: NV126 version: 4.3 Mesa 18.0.5 Direct Render: Yes
Audio: Card-1 NVIDIA Device 0fba driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 01:00.1
Card-2 Intel 9 Series Family HD Audio Controller
driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:1b.0
Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k4.15.0-33-generic
Network: Card: Intel Ethernet Connection (2) I218-V
driver: e1000e v: 3.2.6-k port: f040 bus-ID: 00:19.0
IF: eno1 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Drives: HDD Total Size: 1256.3GB (33.4% used)
ID-1: /dev/sda model: MKNSSDRE256GB size: 256.1GB
ID-2: /dev/sdb model: WDC_WD10EZEX size: 1000.2GB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 219G used: 52G (25%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2
ID-2: /mnt/bace1082-0403-40df-8db4-73a49b3f9f64 size: 917G used: 325G (38%)
fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdb1
ID-3: swap-1 size: 17.11GB used: 0.00GB (0%)
fs: swap dev: /dev/sda3
RAID: No RAID devices: /proc/mdstat, md_mod kernel module present
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 29.8C mobo: 27.8C
Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: 0
Info: Processes: 198 Uptime: 6:54 Memory: 7135.6/15977.1MB
Init: systemd runlevel: 5 Gcc sys: 7.3.0
Client: Shell (bash 4.4.191) inxi: 2.3.56
steve@steve ~ $ lsblk -f
NAME FSTYPE LABEL UUID MOUNTPOINT
sda
├─sda1 vfat 9EC0-DA7D
├─sda2 ext4 f4ea408c-2077-401a-b2e6-1ce1a4298856 /
└─sda3 swap 8f32a8ce-e0bd-463a-b4c1-911961d36c44 [SWAP]
sdb
└─sdb1 ext4 bace1082-0403-40df-8db4-73a49b3f9f64 /mnt/bace1082-0403-40df
sr0
steve@steve ~ $ cat /etc/fstab
# /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>
# / was on /dev/sda2 during installation
UUID=f4ea408c-2077-401a-b2e6-1ce1a4298856 / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /boot/efi was on /dev/sda1 during installation
# swap was on /dev/sda3 during installation
UUID=8f32a8ce-e0bd-463a-b4c1-911961d36c44 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/usb-_USB_Flash_Memory_CC52AF4C82BECDC1B4AA7560-0:0-part1 /mnt/usb-_USB_Flash_Memory_CC52AF4C82BECDC1B4AA7560-0:0-part1 auto nosuid,nodev,nofail,x-gvfs-show 0 0
/dev/disk/by-uuid/bace1082-0403-40df-8db4-73a49b3f9f64 /mnt/bace1082-0403-40df-8db4-73a49b3f9f64 auto nosuid,nodev,nofail,x-gvfs-show 0 0
steve@steve ~ $ df -h /boot/efi
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2 219G 52G 156G 25% /
steve@steve ~ $

[gm10]

Excellent. Instead of talking you through using the Disks tool, I'll just give you a bunch of stuff to copy & paste, usually safer. So in a terminal run:

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xed admin:///etc/fstab

authenticate and then replace the entire contents with this:

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# /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>
# / was on /dev/sda2 during installation
UUID=f4ea408c-2077-401a-b2e6-1ce1a4298856 / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /boot/efi was on /dev/sda1 during installation
UUID=9EC0-DA7D	/boot/efi	vfat	umask=0077	0	1
# swap was on /dev/sda3 during installation
UUID=8f32a8ce-e0bd-463a-b4c1-911961d36c44 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/usb-_USB_Flash_Memory_CC52AF4C82BECDC1B4AA7560-0:0-part1 /mnt/usb-_USB_Flash_Memory_CC52AF4C82BECDC1B4AA7560-0:0-part1 auto nosuid,nodev,nofail,x-gvfs-show 0 0
/dev/disk/by-uuid/bace1082-0403-40df-8db4-73a49b3f9f64 /mnt/bace1082-0403-40df-8db4-73a49b3f9f64 auto nosuid,nodev,nofail,x-gvfs-show 0 0

Save and exit, then run

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sudo mkdir -p /boot/efi

and finally

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sudo mount /boot/efi

You should now be able to install the updates that previously failed, now and in the future.

[farkas]

Thanks!
I followed your instructions and rebooted. No problem. I'll let you know if they work when new updates are available.

It worked, again thank for your help!