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nl6720

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Registered: 2016-07-02

Posts: 718

Re: boot from uefi of mb with refind

Then booting cd from rEFInd will not work.

nicolodo93

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Registered: 2016-12-20

Posts: 47

Re: boot from uefi of mb with refind

Then booting cd from rEFInd will not work.

But this is an issue of refind or of my CD player or of my uefi firmware?

With an external optical driver it works

nl6720

The Evil Wiki Admin

Registered: 2016-07-02

Posts: 718

Re: boot from uefi of mb with refind

Hard to tell. AFAIK rEFInd doesn't scan the devices itself but gets the bootable devices from UEFI.

cfr

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From: Cymru

Registered: 2011-11-27

Posts: 7,198

Re: boot from uefi of mb with refind

Is the appropriate driver installed?

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soloturn

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Registered: 2016-04-18

Posts: 7

Re: boot from uefi of mb with refind

you mention you "install" refind. you copy only the files onto the esp partition isn't it? here the efi partition is mounted in "esp", linux-git from AUR is not installed even it is mentioned in the refind config. does your config look like:

$ sudo cp /usr/share/refind/drivers_x64/* /esp/EFI/Boot/drivers_x64/
$ sudo cp /usr/share/refind/refind_x64.efi /esp/EFI/Boot/BOOTX64.EFI 

$ ls -l /esp/EFI/Boot/BOOTX64.EFI /usr/share/refind/refind_x64.efi 
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 259242  7. Feb 21:11 /esp/EFI/Boot/BOOTX64.EFI
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 259242 25. Nov 10:06 /usr/share/refind/refind_x64.efi

$ cat /esp/EFI/Boot/refind.conf 
extra_kernel_version_strings linux-git,linux-lts,linux;

$ ls /esp/EFI/Boot/drivers_x64/
btrfs_x64.efi  ext2_x64.efi  ext4_x64.efi  hfs_x64.efi  iso9660_x64.efi  ntfs_x64.efi  reiserfs_x64.efi

$ ls /boot/
initramfs-linux-fallback.img      initramfs-linux-lts-fallback.img  intel-ucode.img                   vmlinuz-linux-lts                 
initramfs-linux.img               initramfs-linux-lts.img           vmlinuz-linux                     

Last edited by soloturn (2018-02-07 20:18:40)