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chraffx

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[SOLVED] Refind does not list any entries

Hi, on a new install I decided to try out rEFInd. I used the scripted installation but when I rebooted, there were no boot entries I could boot into. How it looks: https://ibb.co/jbqbyF Thanks for any help you can provide

Last edited by chraffx (2017-05-21 04:27:09)

loqs

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Re: [SOLVED] Refind does not list any entries

Please post the contents of the system's /boot/refind_linux.conf

mrunion

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Re: [SOLVED] Refind does not list any entries

Also, what scripted installation did you use?

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Re: [SOLVED] Refind does not list any entries

Also, what scripted installation did you use?

I suspect he means this.

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Onf

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Re: [SOLVED] Refind does not list any entries

Refind detects all installed bootloaders, here it seems there are none on the esp partition.

Have you done:
bootctl install from the chroot?

loqs

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Re: [SOLVED] Refind does not list any entries

Refind detects all installed bootloaders, here it seems there are none on the esp partition.

Refind is a bootloader and if it is not installed on the ESP how would it being loaded and produce a blank screen?

Have you done:
bootctl install from the chroot?

Refind does not need any help from another bootloader to boot an OS.  Adding an additional bootloader may confuse the issue and I do not see how it will diagnose the issue with refind and its configuration.

Onf

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Re: [SOLVED] Refind does not list any entries

Maybe because refind disables arch default entry by default unless an efi file is found:

menuentry "Arch Linux" {
    icon     /EFI/refind/icons/os_arch.png
    volume   "Arch Linux"
    loader   /boot/vmlinuz-linux
    initrd   /boot/initramfs-linux.img
    options  "root=PARTUUID=5028fa50-0079-4c40-b240-abfaf28693ea rw add_efi_memmap"
    submenuentry "Boot using fallback initramfs" {
        initrd /boot/initramfs-linux-fallback.img
    }
    submenuentry "Boot to terminal" {
        add_options "systemd.unit=multi-user.target"
    }
    disabled
}

linux-lts is detected directly.

Onf

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Re: [SOLVED] Refind does not list any entries

Loqs for your personal references a quote of Rod Smith:

Fundamentally, rEFIt and rEFInd are boot managers. I presume this is what motivated Christoph Pfisterer to create rEFIt. I forked rEFIt into rEFInd after rEFIt fell into disrepair.

A boot loader, by contrast, loads a kernel into memory and transfers control to it. A boot loader does not need to interact with the user directly (although it could). Neither rEFIt nor rEFInd is technically a boot loader, although the Linux kernel creates a blurred line, because it includes a feature (the EFI stub loader) that enables it to function as its own EFI boot loader.

https://askubuntu.com/questions/831161/ … ind/832609

loqs

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Re: [SOLVED] Refind does not list any entries

If your post was the last post in the thread please edit that post rather than creating a new one.
This seems to be going off topic in that I am not sure how that distinction is relevant to issue outlined by chraffx.
Without knowing the contents of refind_linux.conf,  refind.conf, the ESP and /boot if separate how can anything more than speculation be achieved?
Edit:
grammar change ? to .

Last edited by loqs (2017-05-20 15:58:36)

chraffx

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Re: [SOLVED] Refind does not list any entries

I redid the installation and an entry appeared now, I expect that it was an error in creating the /boot/refind_linux.conf correctly. My current /boot/refind_linux.conf looks like this:

"Boot with standard options"  "archisobasedir=arch archisolabel=ARCH_201705"
"Boot to single-user mode"    "archisobasedir=arch archisolabel=ARCH_201705 single"
"Boot with minimal options"   "ro root=UUID=990b590b-20ff-4e13-abb5-359468c7ad6f"

I believe the third line was generated without a device. As I still have an issue with the install but it doesn't fit under the same title I'll mark this thread solved and make a new one for that.