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rEFInd is a boot manager for EFI and UEFI-based machines. At boot-time, it allows the user to choose between different operating systems installed on the computer. Use this tag for questions about installing and/or configuring rEFInd to work with Unix-like operating systems.

rEFInd is a boot manager for EFI and UEFI-based machines. Technically, it’s not a boot loader since it doesn’t actually load an Operating System kernel (unless the kernel can can function as an EFI boot loader for itself). It is the successor fork of the now discontinued rEFIt project.

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  • – more general questions on the process of loading the OS
  • – for bootloaders in general
  • – if you have more than one operating system
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Unable to find root device ''

ERROR: device '' not found. Skipping fsck. ERROR: Unable to find root device ''. You are being dropped to recovery shell I've been trying to install Arch Linux for some time, and keep running into this error. I seriously have no idea what to do. A…
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Install rEFInd on OS X 10.10 Yosemite

I want to dual boot my macbook with Arch Linux and thus tried to install rEFInd using the install script, however, after install rEFInd doesn't seem to start at all? Anyone experienced the same issue or have possible solutions on how to fix this?
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Is it necessary to disable Fast Boot in Windows to dual boot with linux(EFISTUB)?

I already have Windows 8.1 installed and going to install Gentoo on the same drive. Also thinking of using rEFInd. So do I really have to disable Fast Boot? If it isn't necessary, what limitations do I get — what instructions do I have to follow to…
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How do you remove systemd-boot?

Today I installed fedora and rEFInd but the old boot options for systemd-boot from my old arch installation are still there. How do I safely remove these old components or at least hide the old entries?
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How do I hide the rEFInd boot text?

After I select an OS to boot to in rEFInd, it prints boot target and its options before booting. Is there a way to disable this behavior?
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nomodeset doesn't fix black screen on startup

I'm trying to install Linux Mint on my 2010 21.5" iMac. I managed to install it after booting from the usb drive with the nomodeset option, but I haven't been able to boot from the actual install so far. The typical recommendation I found from…
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How to overwrite file residing on ESP at Linux boot

I have a 64-bit dual-boot system running Windows 7 and Linux Mint 17 Cinnamon. I use rEFInd to graphically choose which system to boot. A little bit about rEFInd: It is an EFI bootloader. It uses external, text-based configuration files…
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How to get rid of duplicate entries in rEFInd?

So I have installed rEFInd as a bootloader for my Linux installation (on a Virtual Box before trying on actual hardware). I have configured the refind_linux.conf file as follows: ## This file should be present in the same directory as the EFISTUB…
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Updating kernel versions when booting from rEFInd

I'm booting from EFI using the awesome rEFInd bootloader. I've so far had to configure boot myself by manually copying over my EFI-compatible linux boot image to my EFI partition and writing a configuration file to define a rEFInd menu entry and…
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rEFInd loads with blank screen (logo only, no options to boot from)

Upon booting and choosing rEFInd, I get a blank screen as shown in this post. My filesystem is like so: $ mount /dev/mapper/luks-71740d10-cf57-4b82-9311-aa584acaa81e on / type btrfs…
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Dual boot setup with LUKS and rEFInd: Can't Restore Backup to Second Partition

I have a dual boot setup on a Windows machine with multiple partitions, the two Linux ones being encrypted using LUKS. For some reason, I can no longer restore a backup to my second Linux LUKS partition and properly boot into the LUKS splash screen…
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rEFInd very slow to load initramfs

I'm trying to switch from grub to rEFInd, and I get much slower boot time. rEFInd itself it fast to load (I disabled auto detect) but when it comes to loading the kernel it hangs on "loading initramfs.... with options ... " for about 20 seconds…
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Qubes clobbered my boot, how can I re-enable efi booting?

I have a "test all the operating systems"-laptop which was running Windows and Ubuntu MATE, with rEFInd used as boot manager. Yesterday I installed Qubes on the last third of the drive. I've since read why you should not but for just testing the OS…
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Trying to boot Debian on external HDD

I’ve installed Debian using a bootable usb 3 times now trying to make this work. The issue is that instead of booting into Debian the computer boots into a grub command line. When I use the command boot it says to load a kernel first. I have no idea…
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Grub not booting when large_dir flag is set for an ext4 system partition

After setting large_dir flag with tune2fs for my ext4 filesystem on mdadm RAID1, Linux (Ubuntu 18) is no longer able to boot, showing "error: unknown filesystem". The lack of support is confirmed on…
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