Laptop stopped booting due to EFI boot device problems [SOLVED]

Hi,
I'm writing this from my old laptop. My Lenovo U330 touch will not boot. When I turn it on it states that 'default boot device is missing or boot failed'. It used to go to gummiboot and there were Linux and Windows boot options.
I can boot from an Arch USB drive and chroot but when I try to reinstall gummiboot or grub I get errors:
#gummiboot --path=$esp install
#failed to check filesystem type of install: No such file or directory
# grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=$esp --bootloader-id=grub --recheck --debug
#grub install error failed to get canonical path of `'
On this laptop there are various partitions for EFI and a small Windows 8 partition.
I guess there is some problem with the $esp
It should be /dev/sda2 and / is dev/sda6. All seem to be present and correct with fdisk -l, however, for some reason there is a boot flag on /
I've tried to sort it out for a few hours now. Please if anyone can help that would be amazing.
P
Last edited by pepedopolous (2014-06-22 22:38:55)

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:
pepedopolous wrote:[..] it is btrfs. [...]
Try again without using btrfs --- it is not production ready...
This is a pretty ridiculous suggestion. It may not be production ready and it may not be the best choice for the user, but it has nothing to do with the problem at hand.
@OP, are you literally typing:
gummiboot --path=$esp install
If so, $esp is a variable. So in your case you would need to set esp=/boot. But gummiboot's default --path for install is actually /boot. So you should only need to do:
gummiboot install

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