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wry_discontent

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Registered: 2017-02-02

Posts: 3

Default bootloader getting unset when hard drive removed

I have a separate hard drive that has a Windows install that I occasionally boot into to play a few games that aren't supported on Linux.  I also use rEFInd to boot. 

Whenever I unplug my hard drive, the default bootloader is set back to grub and I have to re-run `refind-install` to get the bootloader updated and get the computer to boot into Linux again. 

Any ideas on why that might be happening?  As far as I can tell it has something to do with the nvram getting erased and reset, but that doesn't make much sense to me.

Zod

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From: Hoosiertucky

Registered: 2019-03-10

Posts: 636

Re: Default bootloader getting unset when hard drive removed

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/REFInd

https://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/bootcoup.html