[SOLVED] rEFInd installs but does not boot up

gunjah292 · 2014-10-30 18:47:52

Hey,

after the automatic installation of refind did not work I tried the manual configuration. But I still end up in Windows 8. Secure boot is disabled. The installation of refind shows an error. It says I should rename the refind_x64.efi and copy it to /boot/boot_x64.efi. But doing that changes nothing. I realized that my folder is named "Boot" and not "boot". When I tried to rename it to "boot", I got the output that a folder of that name already exists. So I guess this won't be a problem.

The only way to boot into arch was to install grub and to delete the "Microsoft" folder. But then I can't boot into Windows. I still have "arch_grub" "Boot" "Microsoft->Boot" and "refind" in my /boot/EFI folder. Could that cause the problem?

Cheers

Last edited by gunjah292 (2014-12-18 09:17:39)

\hbar · 2014-10-31 08:48:05

Could this be related to https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=187011 ?

CarlD · 2014-11-03 09:57:43

Hello,

With rEFInd, simply copying over the .efi file to $esp/EFI/Boot won't do anything. The proper command to make rEFInd the "default" bootloader is:

# refind-install --usedefault /dev/sdXY --alldrivers

As the UEFI partition is essentially a Microsoft development, file and directory names are not case sensitive (that's a Linux thing).

See you can add the .efi entry to your actual firmware, as well.

Last edited by CarlD (2014-11-03 09:58:03)

gunjah292 · 2014-12-18 09:17:15

The problem dissolved when I updated my BIOS.

Arch Linux

#1 2014-10-30 18:47:52

[SOLVED] rEFInd installs but does not boot up

#2 2014-10-31 08:48:05

Re: [SOLVED] rEFInd installs but does not boot up

#3 2014-11-03 09:57:43

Re: [SOLVED] rEFInd installs but does not boot up

#4 2014-12-18 09:17:15

Re: [SOLVED] rEFInd installs but does not boot up

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