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Bosc

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Registered: 2014-10-09

Posts: 2

Installation of rEFInd on yoga 2 pro laptop

Hi everyone,

I wanted to install ArchLinux with UEFI boot on my yoga 2 pro.

I've created an EFI partition (with EF00 code) with 1024M of partition size.

Before using refind-install, I've added -w to grep "$InstallDir" /etc/mtab, like it was said on the refind wiki page. When I use refind-install, I got this log :

Installing rEFInd on Linux...
ESP was found at /boot using vfat
Copied rEFInd binary files

Copying sample configuration file as refind.conf: edit this file to configure rEFInd.

Installing it!
*** Error in `/usr/bin/efibootmgr`: free(): invalid next size (fast): 0x000000000187f1e0 ***
*** Error in `/usr/bin/efibootmgr`: malloc(): memory corruption: 0x000000000187f200 ***

After that, its hanging there, not giving prompt back. Really don't know what the problem is.

Thank you!

\hbar

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Registered: 2014-03-15

Posts: 165

Re: Installation of rEFInd on yoga 2 pro laptop

Seems like a bug in efibootmgr. What version are you running? Can you run

efibootmgr

Bosc

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Registered: 2014-10-09

Posts: 2

Re: Installation of rEFInd on yoga 2 pro laptop

I use the 2014.10.01 installation and my efibootmgr version is 0.8.0

wildebeestje

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Registered: 2010-06-05

Posts: 5

Re: Installation of rEFInd on yoga 2 pro laptop

I've got the same problem on a desktop gigabyte g1.sniper b5.
On 2014.11.01 installation and efibootmgr version 0.8.0

Did you find a solution?

\hbar

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Registered: 2014-03-15

Posts: 165

Re: Installation of rEFInd on yoga 2 pro laptop

efibootmgr will shortly by updated to version 0.10 (it's in testing), maybe that'll fix it.

Mr.Elendig

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Re: Installation of rEFInd on yoga 2 pro laptop

Or you could use gummiboot.

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