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Daphron

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Registered: 2010-01-06

Posts: 27

rEFInd problems

So I am able to get to the refind graphical menu but whenever I try to boot it starts, tells me what boot options I tried to use, and hangs.

I can however, boot using a efi shell.

the efi partition is mounted on /boot/efi

This script allows me to boot from the shell by running

fs0:
archlinux.nsh

where archlinux.nsh is this:

echo -on
\EFI\arch\vmlinuz-arch.efi root=/dev/sda2 ro rootfstype=ext4 add_efi_memmap initrd=EFI/arch/initramfs-arch.img

my /boot/efi/EFI/arch dir has
    initramfs-arch.img
    refind_linux.conf
    vmlinuz-arch.efi
/boot/efi/EFI/refind has
    icons/
    refind.conf
    refind_x64.efi

refind_linux.conf:

"Boot with defaults"    "root=/dev/sda2 ro rootfstype=ext4 add_efi_memmap initrd=EFI/arch/initramfs-arch.img"
"Boot to terminal"      "root=PARTUUID=911c6a62-637f-4299-bc2a-39a70e97944b rootfstype=ext4 ro systemd.unit=multi-user.target"

my refind.conf is http://pastebin.com/jv4Wu5iP (just the default file)

The wiki has failed me, so anyone have any ideas as to why it won't boot?

srs5694

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From: Woonsocket, RI

Registered: 2012-11-06

Posts: 719

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Re: rEFInd problems

My suspicion is that you're running into the problem under discussion in the following thread:

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=156670&p=1

In brief, it's a very inconsistent bug that I believe to be in the kernel, although I can't be 100% positive of that. Some users have found that switching from rEFInd built with the TianoCore EDK2 to a version built with GNU-EFI can help. (It's not simply a TianoCore issue, though; gummiboot, which is built with GNU-EFI, can trigger the problem, too.) You can find download links on the rEFInd Web page:

http://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/getting.html

Search the page for the string "variant package"; that's a link to the file.

Diaz

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From: Portugal

Registered: 2008-04-16

Posts: 366

Re: rEFInd problems

I had problems recently and tracked it back to me puting the drivers folder in refind.
If i remove all drivers except the ones for ext2 and ext4 I can load it, otherwise it just hangs.
Still if I try to refresh the list pressing ESC it hangs again and I have to reboot again.

Have you upgraded refind? What it the version you are using?