Questions tagged [refind]
rEFInd is a boot menu and maintenance toolkit for UEFI-based machines like all new PCs and Intel Macs. It can be used to boot multiple operating systems.
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How to dual-doot with BBS (BIOS Boot Specification)?
I recently brought a Samsung 870 EVO 2TB drive to dual boot with.
When I installed Windows 10, I discovered that (to boot Windows automatically), I have to set this drive to the top of my BBS (BIOS ...
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rEFInd not showing additional Fedora entries
I have a machine that has Windowd 10, Fedora 38, and Fedora 39 installed. When I installed rEFInd, (and then ran mkrlconf on both Fedora installations) it was able to successfully pick up the Windows ...
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How to hide refind's "Booting OS" splash screen?
I just want a blank screen.
I tried these 3 configurations (changes to refind.conf) but it didn't work.
not setting "use_graphics_for" (this is the default behavior)
setting "...
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W10 factory reset, can’t get past rEFInd MM
Dell Inspiron 7559, I did a factory reset when I was having issues with my USB ports (fixed the issue) but now the rEFInd main menu just keeps going in a LOOP. I’ve tried every option under rEFInd and ...
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Refind Boot Manager can’t find any OS to boot
My rEFind boot manager can’t detect any OS to boot. For this reason, i can’t enter my Windows or something else.
Can someone help me?
Thank you very much.
You guys can see my rEFind boot manager here.
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rEFInd no longer sees MacOS after using Gparted in Linux
rEFInd was working fine. High Sierra was the only OS on my MBP 2015. Here's what happened:
Booted into MacOS
Used Disk Util (gui) to shrink the boot disk so that I could install Linux Mint 21 onto ...
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Uninstall rEFInd and remove linux partition
A couple years ago I added a Linux partition to my Mac laptop. I also installed rEFInd to manage my partitions. Now, I'd like to remove that partition, and uninstall rEFInd. However, Disk Utility does ...
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Refi won't boot win10 after partition resize
I need some suggestions about fixing the boot of a win 10 partition from rEFInd.
I had an Imac with a three partition boot : Linux, MacOsx and windows 10.
Respectively listed as /dev/sda2, sda4, sda5, ...
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I need grub to support BIOS and UEFI at the same time?
The Arch Linux ISO can be booted both in BIOS and EUFI mode, but how can we install an Arch Linux that both support UEFI and BIOS booting? And what's the partition layout, I used this layout but it ...
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How to output rEFind boot interface to external monitor
I connected my AOC monitor through HDMI to my HP laptop. And I am using rEFind as a boot manager to choose between Arch Linux and Windows 10. But the rEfind is shown only on my laptop monitor.
I ...
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Is there a way to boot from ISO file in rEFInd Boot Manager?
I am wonder if there is such feature in rEFInd - to run ISO file located on the USB stick. I can not use any superuser utilities such as dd to write an ISO directly. I can only repack it.
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Failure to boot into Windows 10 using rEFInd boot manger while triple booting Macbook Pro 2016
I'm attempting to triple boot my Macbook from an external SSD. I first started with installing Windows 10 on the external SSD following https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IhW722IMwE. Following that I ...
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rEFInd is no longer booting windows
I am running the latest version of Ubuntu, and windows 10 in a dual boot setup. Unfortunately, windows was misbehaving and kept setting itself as a priority boot, so I chose to install rEFInd on ...
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rEFInd: Kernel Parameters in /boot/EFI/bootx64/refind.conf not applying
I've never been able to set kernel parameters on my device, even when I was using grub. I've run out of idea's as I've added them to udev as well and used sysctl but nothing seems to work.
~My rEFInd....
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Substitution of kernel version to rEFInd without autodetection
Recently I moved to a rEFInd boot loader. I changed my theme to initramfs by adding include path/to/theme.conf to the end of refind.conf. I want to disable autodetection of some kernels(or delete ...
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