select wrong partition for boot loader installation option [Solved]

[nazokkar]

Hi
I mistakenly set the device for boot loader installation option to nvme0n1
But I had created nvme0n1p partition
But now everything is working properly
Do I need to do the installation again?
Will it be a problem?

[Jo-con-Ël]

mistakenly set the device for boot loader installation option to nvme0n1
But I had created nvme0n1p partition
But now everything is working properly
Do I need to do the installation again?

Who told you it is the wrong place?

The right place is the disk (nvme0n1) not any partition. Installer is on charge to mount and install grub-efi on EFI partition you have created (nvmen0n1pX)..

If you have only one disk, not another one with other system pre-installed on UEFI mode (so no previous EFI partition) or it was not connected when installing, you have nothing to do, just have fun with installed Mint.

PD: Notice "if" condition. In case you have installed on secondary/external disk and main/previous disk already have a system installed on UEFI mode, because a Mint installer bug, Mint loader will be placed on main disk's EFI partition. Never mind you have created an own EFI partition on secondary/Mint's disk, it wont be used so empty.

In that case open a terminal (Alt+Ctrl+T) and post back cat /etc/fstab result to confim and also lsblk -f if you want Mint laoder installed on its own disk's EFI partition.

[nazokkar]

mistakenly set the device for boot loader installation option to nvme0n1
But I had created nvme0n1p partition
But now everything is working properly
Do I need to do the installation again?

Who told you it is the wrong place?

The right place is the disk (nvme0n1) not any partition. Installer is on charge to mount and install grub-efi on EFI partition you have created (nvmen0n1pX)..

If you have only one disk, not another one with other system pre-installed on UEFI mode (so no previous EFI partition) or it was not connected when installing, you have nothing to do, just have fun with installed Mint.

PD: Notice "if" condition. In case you have installed on secondary/external disk and main/previous disk already have a system installed on UEFI mode, because a Mint installer bug, Mint loader will be placed on main disk's EFI partition. Never mind you have created an own EFI partition on secondary/Mint's disk, it wont be used so empty.

In that case open a terminal (Alt+Ctrl+T) and post back cat /etc/fstab result to confim and also lsblk -f if you want Mint laoder installed on its own disk's EFI partition.

Thanks
i just have one disk

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$ 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/nvme0n1p2 during installation
UUID=f3506fea-4110-49d8-a5d2-d5cfb018bd9b /               ext4    errors=remount-ro 0       1
# /boot/efi was on /dev/nvme0n1p1 during installation
UUID=0541-04A9  /boot/efi       vfat    umask=0077      0       1
# /home was on /dev/nvme0n1p3 during installation
UUID=23f8b482-a75f-4abd-84e4-41ba060ca65c /home           ext4    defaults        0       2
# swap was on /dev/nvme0n1p4 during installation
UUID=573ede6b-d924-41af-811f-b8e8b171dc73 none            swap    sw              0       0

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$ lsblk -f
NAME        FSTYPE FSVER LABEL UUID                                 FSAVAIL FSUSE% MOUNTPOINTS
nvme0n1                                                                            
├─nvme0n1p1 vfat   FAT32       0541-04A9                               966M     1% /boot/efi
├─nvme0n1p2 ext4   1.0         f3506fea-4110-49d8-a5d2-d5cfb018bd9b   41.5G    16% /
├─nvme0n1p3 ext4   1.0         23f8b482-a75f-4abd-84e4-41ba060ca65c   91.8G    40% /home
└─nvme0n1p4 swap   1           573ede6b-d924-41af-811f-b8e8b171dc73                [SWAP]

[Jo-con-Ël]

Ok. Unless you have another question you can edit first post (click on pencil icon on the right) and add [Solved] to subject.