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saronno

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Registered: 2009-10-02

Posts: 219

[SOLVED] reFIND update ...

I have some doubts, so in ordet to not mess up my refind setup I need some
explanations.

During the update I receive these messages

rEFInd UEFI application has been installed at /usr/share/refind/refind_*.efi

Other UEFI applications have been installed at /usr/share/refind/tools_*/

UEFI drivers have been installed at /usr/share/refind/drivers_*/

Copy the efi application (according to your UEFI ARCH) 
and /usr/share/refind/refind.conf-sample to a sub-directory of <EFISYS>/EFI/
as refind.conf and add an entry to firmware boot menu using efibootmgr
or mactel-boot (for Macs)

rEFInd Icons have been installed at /usr/share/refind/icons/
rEFInd Fonts have been installed at /usr/share/refind/fonts/

HTML Documentation is available at /usr/share/doc/refind/html/

More info: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/UEFI_Bootloaders#Using_rEFInd

At the moment my situation is this:

/boot/efi/EFI/boot/boot_x64.efi
/boot/efi/EFI/refind/refind_x64.efi
/boot/efi/EFI/refind/drivers_x64/btrfs_x64.efi
/boot/efi/EFI/refind/drivers_x64/ext2_x64.efi
/boot/efi/EFI/refind/drivers_x64/ext4_x64.efi
/boot/efi/EFI/refind/drivers_x64/hfs_x64.efi
/boot/efi/EFI/refind/drivers_x64/iso9660_x64.efi
/boot/efi/EFI/refind/drivers_x64/reiserfs_x64.efi
/root/efibackup/vmlinuz-arch.efi
/usr/share/refind/refind_x64.efi
/usr/share/refind/drivers_x64/btrfs_x64.efi
/usr/share/refind/drivers_x64/ext2_x64.efi
/usr/share/refind/drivers_x64/ext4_x64.efi
/usr/share/refind/drivers_x64/hfs_x64.efi
/usr/share/refind/drivers_x64/iso9660_x64.efi
/usr/share/refind/drivers_x64/reiserfs_x64.efi
/usr/share/refind/tools_x64/gptsync_x64.efi

Where the files in the boot directory are older than
the files in /usr/share/

can I just copy /usr/share/refind
in /boot/efi/eEFI/ and update refind.conf from refind.conf-sample?

Last edited by saronno (2013-12-01 21:12:24)

mcloaked

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From: Yorkshire, UK

Registered: 2012-02-02

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Re: [SOLVED] reFIND update ...

I usually update my copies of the tools, icons, fonts, drivers and the .efi binaries, but I don't update the .conf files - I've been doing that all of this year and my uefi systems have been continuing to boot without any problems.

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Re: [SOLVED] reFIND update ...

Just backup your $esp before you do anything.

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saronno

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Registered: 2009-10-02

Posts: 219

Re: [SOLVED] reFIND update ...

Done. Everything fine, thanks.