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.
