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ButchDeLoria

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Registered: 2014-04-15

Posts: 15

Change automatically generated menu entries in rEFInd?

I've been looking through rEFInd's documentation and the Arch Wiki, but I haven't found any information on altering the automatic menu entries seen when booting to rEFInd's EFI menu. It's nagging me because currently the Arch entry is just named 'vmlinuz' and the icon is the generic penguin icon.

loqs

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Registered: 2014-03-06

Posts: 17,450

Re: Change automatically generated menu entries in rEFInd?

Instead you could add a manual entry for for arch

menuentry Arch {
	icon EFI/refind/icons/os_arch.icns
	volume  ###if the ESP does not contain the kernel / initrd (ie when it is mounted at /boot/efi) set to label of boot partiton or root partition and adjust paths below as required (if not needed just remove this line)
	loader vmlinuz-linux
	initrd initramfs-linux.img
	options #####copy from refind_linux.conf
	enabled
}

Once the manual entry is working you can disable the auto entry by disabling #scan_all_linux_kernels in refind.conf

srs5694

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From: Woonsocket, RI

Registered: 2012-11-06

Posts: 719

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Re: Change automatically generated menu entries in rEFInd?

You can change the icon in any of several ways, as described in the rEFInd documentation. The easiest is usually to set a filesystem label, or a partition label if you can't or don't want to set a filesystem label.