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archforthewin

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Registered: 2021-07-23

Posts: 27

[SOLVED] rEFInd - Unable to boot into other systems

Hello everyone,

I can't get my refind configuration to work properly.
My goal is to use arch and debian in dual boot. The arch system is automatically recognized by refind and can be booted (and is used). The debian system is not recognized and whenever I try to create a manual entry for the debian system, I get the following error after selecting the debian entry in the boot menu:

Error: Not Found while loading vmlinuz-6.1.0-21-amd64

The corresponding entry in my refind.conf looks like this:

menuentry DaggerDebian {
    icon EFI/refind/icons/os_debian.png
    volume F736CA13-8DA0-400A-9FC0-A626E6A770A3 # according to the arch wiki this has to match either a filesystems LABLE, a PARTLABEL or a PARTUUID of the partition where the kernel image resides (not the UUID!)
    loader /vmlinuz-6.1.0-18-amd64
    initrd /initrd.img-6.1.0-18-amd64
    options "rw cryptdevice=UUID=431e411a-e641-4715-9d09-dd8cd56da209:daggerdebian-crypt:allow-discards root=/dev/mapper/daggerdebianvg-root quiet"
    # disabled
}

The boot partition for the debian system is /dev/nvme0n1p5

sudo blkid /dev/nvme0n1p5
/dev/nvme0n1p5: UUID="d24a13ee-c133-4a87-b9ff-c68ab0097d26" BLOCK_SIZE="4096" TYPE="ext4" PARTLABEL="daggerdebian-boot" PARTUUID="f736ca13-8da0-400a-9fc0-a626e6a770a3"

This is its content:

❯ sudo mount /dev/nvme0n1p5 /mnt
❯ ls /mnt
config-6.1.0-18-amd64  grub                       initrd.img-6.1.0-21-amd64  refind_linux.conf          System.map-6.1.0-21-amd64  vmlinuz-6.1.0-21-amd64
config-6.1.0-21-amd64  initrd.img-6.1.0-18-amd64  lost+found                 System.map-6.1.0-18-amd64  vmlinuz-6.1.0-18-amd64
❯ cat /mnt/refind_linux.conf
"Boot daggerdebian System" "rw cryptdevice=UUID=431e411a-e641-4715-9d09-dd8cd56da209:daggerdebian-crypt:allow-discards root=/dev/mapper/daggerdebianvg-root quiet"

The only difference between the boot partition of my arch system and the one of the debian system is that the boot partition of my arch system is formatted with FAT32 and the one of the debian system with ext4. But refind supports ext4 so I do not think that this should be an issue.

I no longer have any idea why it shouldn't work.
I would be very grateful for any help!

Last edited by archforthewin (2024-07-23 08:55:27)

d_fajardo

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Registered: 2017-07-28

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Re: [SOLVED] rEFInd - Unable to boot into other systems

The only difference between the boot partition of my arch system and the one of the debian system is that the boot partition of my arch system is formatted with FAT32 and the one of the debian system with ext4.

Are you saying you have 2 EFI partitions?

archforthewin

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Registered: 2021-07-23

Posts: 27

Re: [SOLVED] rEFInd - Unable to boot into other systems

Are you saying you have 2 EFI partitions?

No. I have one EFI partition (which is only an EFI partition) and seperate boot partitions (one for each system).

archforthewin

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Registered: 2021-07-23

Posts: 27

Re: [SOLVED] rEFInd - Unable to boot into other systems

Hey everyone,

The problem has been solved.

While it is true that refind does support ext4 filesystems, the driver for it is not installed automatically per default. After installing the driver, it worked out immediately.

To be fair, this is also documented in the installation section of the corresponding Arch Wiki article. However, since I had already installed refind before and only wanted to use it with another operating system, I didn't read the installation section again and therefore overlooked this information.

I will mark this thread as solved.