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dhave

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From: Outside the matrix.

Registered: 2005-05-15

Posts: 1,112

rEFInd not listing submenu options

I'm currently using rEFInd to boot using the efi boot stub feature of recent kernel releases. It's working pretty well.

One problem is that I can't get rEFInd to display any submenu options for my selected kernel. I'm not using any "OS stanzas", as the rEFInd docs call them. Instead, I'm simply letting rEFInd autodetect my kernel. On my special efi boot partition,  in the same directly as my kernel and corresponding initramfs file, I've got a refind.conf file and a refind_linux.conf file. In the refind_linux.conf file, I've specified two different booting options, one of which boots into X via runlevel 5 and another which boots into runlevel 3.

When I boot, the rEFInd start screen appears, and I select my kernel. At this point, the docs say I'm supposed to be able to press Insert, F2 or "+" and get a list of submenu options. However, no such list appears. Instead, another rEFInd-generated screen appears which indicates the kernel I've chose, but with no list of options. The system boots directly into X.

If I comment out the first of my two boot options in refind_linux.conf, rEFInd will use the second option. But there's no other way I can choose between my two options.

What am I missing? Thanks.

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the.ridikulus.rat

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From: Indiana, USA

Registered: 2011-10-04

Posts: 765

Re: rEFInd not listing submenu options

Post your refind.conf and refind_linux.conf files. Did you try the refind-x86_64 AUR package or the pre-compiled binary from sourceforge.net ? Is this solved in 0.4.1 release or in refind-x86_64-git ?

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