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Questions tagged [refind]

for questions about the rEFInd boot manager, installing it, using it, etc.

rEFInd is a fork of the rEFIt boot manager. rEFInd is developed and maintained by Rod Smith.

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Any downside to using rEFInd instead of GRUB?

FINAL EDIT - If you are planning on installing rEFInd you might want to read Rod's answer below. After installing if you have a bunch of useless entries just write down their name on a piece of paper (rEFInd will describe them as somefile.efi), then…
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Dual-Booting OS X or macOS with Linux without rEFInd

I think the title quite sums up the content of this post. I'd like to dual-boot a macbook pro 13' without having to use a third party boot loader. All the tutorials I've found use rEFIt o rEFInd to successfully boot Linux when it's been installed,…
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Dual Boot Mac El Captain along with Ubuntu 14.04

Due to lots of old stuff in the archive, I am little bit confused. How do I install Ubuntu 14.04 to my IMac with MacOS El Captain. Is it necessary to use Refit? What about direct installing from an Ubuntu Live USB drive?
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rEFInd Question: Remove multiple boot items?

Just installed Ubuntu on a separate drive (not partitioned with any other OS), as well as rEFInd, on my Mac Pro. I managed to get it all to start up properly and can boot to any of the locations from rEFInd without trouble. The problem is, I have 3…
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Refind configuration: Change boot order and default boot

I installed REfind and it works great! It immediately Windows and Ubuntu options and put them in a nice menu to choose from when I boot the computer. However, I found the configuration instructions intimidating and a little beyond my grasp. The…
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Can I safely remove grub after installing rEFInd?

I use rEFInd for dual-boot with Windows 10 on my PC and I want to remove GRUB because I don't use it and OS boots from rEFInd directly, without GRUB (after rEFInd installation, I removed ubuntu directory from /boot/efi/EFI). Can I do this safely? If…
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rEFInd menu not showing on a dual Mac/Ubuntu machine

I'm having a little of a problem with rEFInd and couldn't find something specific about it. I succesfully installed Ubuntu 14.04 for dual boot with OS X Yosemite on my MacBook Pro 3.1 using rEFInd but now after booting into Ubuntu the rEFInd menu…
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Cannot boot into rEFIt (to choose Ubuntu) on Mac after Yosemite upgrade

I've upgraded to Yosemite on MacBook Pro (13 inch, mid 2012 model). Since doing so, I cannot boot into rEFIt; no OS options are available; it just boots into Mac OSX yosemite directly. I tried reinstalling rEFIt, but it didn't work. I tried…
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What is the current best way to dual boot a Mac with Ubuntu on the latest 10.12 macOS?

I spend the last 3 nights searching every corner of the web for a straightforward guide how to dualboot the latest macOS 10.12 Sierra with Ubuntu, but it seems like there is just so many ways people recommend doing, that in other forums people are…
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Is it safe to switch from GRUB2 to BURG?

I have Ubuntu 17.10 and Windows 10 installed in dual-boot (Non-UEFI) with GRUB2 as my default bootloader. It looks kinda old-fashioned boot-menu, I want a GUI boot-menu with a better look. I searched and found BURG as a suitable one, but I also seen…
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Where can I find the refind.conf configuration file?

I'm in the process of installing ubuntu 14.04 LTS on macbook pro 13inch retina display with the end goal of having a dual boot setup with OS X. I'm using reFind as my boot manager, and since I have disk encryption enabled on my OS X partition, I…
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rEFInd & Linux kernel EFISTUB booting at Apple hardware, how to implement it?

Okay, here follows now a somewhat more complex topic. I want to ask what's the simplest way to implement a clean EFISTUB Linux kernel booting through the rEFInd boot manager? The very best method would be a Linux distro which natively includes an…
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rEfind shows multiple Ubuntu choices

I recently installed Ubuntu on my Macbook with the intention of dual booting Ubuntu and OS X Sierra. First time after installing Ubuntu, rEfind didn't work and every time I turned on my Mac it jumped straight into Ubuntu. I solved this problem by…
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Refind not working on dual boot macos/ubuntu

I have installed Ubuntu on my macbook air with OSx Sierra after installing Refind and partitioning. Before Ubuntu, Refind was working. But after Ubuntu was installed, my mba boots directly into Ubuntu instead of showing refind. If I wanted to boot…
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MacBook Pro, EFI and Nvidia setpci IDs

I just installed Linux on my 2010 MacBookPro (triple boot using refind) and get the infamous black screen after installing the nvidia drivers. I tried applying the solution metioned here:https://askubuntu.com/a/613573/488420 without success. I…
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