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weirdwater

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Registered: 2015-01-02

Posts: 3

Windows doesn't boot succesfully from rEFInd

When booting into Windows from the refind menu it freezes halfway through. After displaying the loading animation the screen goes black and my USB peripherals lose power. But it starts up without a hitch when using the (f12) bootmenu to access the Windows Boot Manager.

Just in case refind's auto detect messed up i added a new entry to refind.conf:

menuentry "Windows 8.1" {
          icon     /EFI/refind/icons/os_win.png
          loader   /EFI/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgfw.efi
          ostype   "Windows"
}

But it just has the same result...

Anyone have a clue what might cause this?
Thanks

dice

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From: Germany

Registered: 2014-02-10

Posts: 413

Re: Windows doesn't boot succesfully from rEFInd

You could check what refind auto detects by pressing the f2 key on refind's menu. Maybe you are missing some option windows needs.

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weirdwater

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Registered: 2015-01-02

Posts: 3

Re: Windows doesn't boot succesfully from rEFInd

Thanks for the suggestion, but both the manual entry and the auto detect entry have the same problem. It starts booting Windows, displays the loading animation and then just stops at a black screen.

Pluribootent

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Registered: 2008-09-16

Posts: 25

Re: Windows doesn't boot succesfully from rEFInd

I have the same problem. Any solutions so far?
Thanks for your help.

TheSaint

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From: my computer

Registered: 2007-08-19

Posts: 1,536

Re: Windows doesn't boot succesfully from rEFInd

Windows version ?
And

$ parted -l
# gdisk -l /dev/sdX

X would be the disk to boot from.

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Pluribootent

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Registered: 2008-09-16

Posts: 25

Re: Windows doesn't boot succesfully from rEFInd

Windows10

parted:

Model: ATA Samsung SSD 850 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 250GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags: 

Number  Start   End    Size   File system  Name                          Flags
 1      1049kB  106MB  105MB  fat32        EFI system partition          boot, esp
 2      106MB   240MB  134MB               Microsoft reserved partition  msftres
 3      240MB   250GB  249GB  ntfs         Basic data partition          msftdata
 4      250GB   250GB  472MB  ntfs                                       hidden, diag


Model: ATA Samsung SSD 850 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdb: 250GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags: 

Number  Start   End     Size    File system     Name        Flags
 1      1049kB  18.9GB  18.9GB  linux-swap(v1)
 2      18.9GB  124GB   105GB   ext4            Gentoo
 3      124GB   198GB   73.3GB  ext4            Linux_Free
 4      198GB   250GB   52.4GB  ext4            Virtual


Model: Generic Flash Disk (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdc: 4089MB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Disk Flags: 

Number  Start  End     Size    Type     File system  Flags
 1      377kB  4089MB  4089MB  primary  fat32


Model: Generic Flash Disk (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdd: 8196MB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Disk Flags: 

Number  Start  End     Size    Type     File system  Flags
 1      909kB  8196MB  8195MB  primary  fat32

gdisk:

GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 1.0.1

Partition table scan:
  MBR: protective
  BSD: not present
  APM: not present
  GPT: present

Found valid GPT with protective MBR; using GPT.
Disk /dev/sda: 488397168 sectors, 232.9 GiB
Logical sector size: 512 bytes
Disk identifier (GUID): 85FAC5AD-6305-4234-B7F3-07F7AA4D7B3D
Partition table holds up to 128 entries
First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 488397134
Partitions will be aligned on 2048-sector boundaries
Total free space is 2349 sectors (1.1 MiB)

Number  Start (sector)    End (sector)  Size       Code  Name
   1            2048          206847   100.0 MiB   EF00  EFI system partition
   2          206848          468991   128.0 MiB   0C01  Microsoft reserved ...
   3          468992       487475199   232.2 GiB   0700  Basic data partition
   4       487475200       488396799   450.0 MiB   2700  

surfatwork

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Registered: 2012-01-05

Posts: 139

Re: Windows doesn't boot succesfully from rEFInd

It seems to do this on my PC once in a while (Win 10). A hard poweroff, followed by poweron results in WIndows booting

TheSaint

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From: my computer

Registered: 2007-08-19

Posts: 1,536

Re: Windows doesn't boot succesfully from rEFInd

Please mount ESP (/dev/sda1) and

$ find  $esp/EFI -iname bootmgfw.efi

But, normally ESP should be mounted on /boot, therefore esp='/boot'
Furtermore windows 10 is a bit selfish and tempt to change BIOS boot order. Disable FastBoot from BIOS options.

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Pluribootent

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Registered: 2008-09-16

Posts: 25

Re: Windows doesn't boot succesfully from rEFInd

OK
It gives me this:

/boot/efi/EFI/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgfw.efi

sda1 is mounted on /boot/efi/ on my machine.

TheSaint

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From: my computer

Registered: 2007-08-19

Posts: 1,536

Re: Windows doesn't boot succesfully from rEFInd

I suspect something wrong in the configuration, check this for help.
Perhaps it would be necessary to see $esp/EFI/refind/refind.conf

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do it good first, it will be faster than do it twice the saint