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rEFInd is a boot manager which allows you to boot multiple operating systems from internal or external hard drives. rEFInd automatically detects EFI bootloaders and shows a graphical interface allowing the user to select which operating system they want to start.

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Download and mount the rEFIt-0.14.dmg disk image. Double-click on the “rEFIt.mpkg” package. Follow the instructions and select your Mac OS X installation volume as the destination volume for the install. If everything went well, you’ll see the rEFIt boot menu on the next restart. Manual Installation on the Mac OS X volume. Removing REFIND from Mac. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets. Removing REFIND from Mac Raw. So, I tried install rEFInd manually into the EFI partition, and it worked. Here is the procedure: 1. Open Disk Utility, select EFI partition and mount it. Normally, the mount point should be /Volumes/EFI 2. I assume you have already installed rEFInd by running the install.sh script using default arguments (rEFInd should be install at /EFI/refind). Restart your Mac and hold the alt key to get into your Mac’s boot menu. Now you should see your Mac’s drive and your Linux drive in there ( and the USB if you didn’t unplug it ). It’s easy to recognize which is which because your Mac’s drive will be named whatever you named it and the Linux drive will be most likly called EFI boot.

These instructions will show you how to use the automatic rEFInd installer or to manually install rEFInd on a computer running macOS.

1. Install rEFInd with the automatic installer
2. Install rEFInd with the manual installer

Download the latest version of rEFInd from SourceForge.

System Integrity Protection (SIP) prevents certain folders from being modified even by the root user or by a user with root privileges. Mac OS 10.11 (El Capitan) and later have SIP turned on by default. SIP must be disabled in order to install rEFInd.

Check if System Integrity Protection is enabled:

If it returns System Integrity Protection status: enabled., follow these steps to disable SIP before installing rEFInd:

1. Restart your computer.
2. While your computer is restarting hold down Command-R (⌘R). This will start your computer in Recovery mode.
3. After your computer restarted, click on the Utilities menu and select Terminal.
4. Enter csrutil disable.
5. Restart your computer normally.

1. Uncompress the rEFInd zip file that you downloaded from SourceForge.
2. Open Terminal and navigate into the uncompressed rEFInd folder.
3. Then enter:

An automatic installer will install rEFInd into your EFI partition.

Re-enable System Integrity Protection

After you finish installing rEFInd, you should re-enable System Integrity Protection (SIP). The process of re-enabling SIP is almost identical todisabling it:

1. Restart you computer.
2. While it’s restarting hold down Command-R (⌘R). This will start it in Recovery mode.
3. Click on the Utilities menu and select Terminal.
4. Enter csrutil enable.
5. Restart your computer normally.

That’s it

After restart, your computer will load the rEFInd boot manager automatically. You will see a screen like the one below. Use the left and right arrows to select an operating system.

These instructions will show you how to install rEFInd manually by copying specific files from the rEFInd zip file to a folder on your computer.

Identify Your System

First you need to identify if you have a 32-bit or 64-bit system.

Open Terminal and enter:

Terminal will return either EFI32 or EFI64.

Mount your EFI System Partition.

The EFI System Partition (ESP) contains files that tell your computer which operating system to load while it is starting up.

To modify your computer’s ESP, create an empty folder and then mount the ESP to that folder.

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1. Create a folder in Terminal: sudo mkdir Volumes/esp

2. Mount the ESP to that folder: sudo mount -t msdos /dev/disk0s1 Volumes/esp

Move the rEFInd files

Now move the files from the unzipped rEFInd folder to the ESP folder.

1. Create an empty folder in the ESP folder for the rEFInd files: sudo mkdir -p /Volumes/esp/efi/refind

2. In Terminal, navigate into the unzipped folder you downloaded fromSourceForge and copy the rEFInd files to the new rEFInd folder you justcreated: sudo cp -r refind/* /Volumes/esp/efi/refind/

Remove Unnecessary rEFInd Files

There are several versions of rEFInd that were copied from the unzipped folder to the ESP folder, but you only need the one version that will work with your computer.

This step will show you how to remove the unnecessary versions of rEFInd from/Volumes/esp/efi/refind/.

Apple computers don’t use an ARM CPU, so you can delete this file:

• refind_aa64.efi

If you have a 64-bit computer, remove this file:

• refind_ia32.efi

If you have a 32-bit computer, remove this file:

• refind_x64.efi

Rename rEFInd Config File

If this is your first installation of rEFInd, rename the refind.conf-sample file to refind.conf:

Bless rEFInd

The bless command makes a volume bootable. To bless this installation of rEFInd, enter:

Unmount the rEFInd directory

You can restart your computer now and it will automatically unmount the ESP and run rEFInd after it restarts. If you want to unmount the ESP folder before you restart your computer, enter the following command:

or

Re-enable System Integrity Protection

If you disabled System Integrity Protection (SIP), you should re-enable itafter you’ve finished installing rEFInd. Re-enabling System IntegrityProtection is almost identical to disabling it:

1. Restart your computer.
2. While it’s restarting hold down Command-R (⌘R). This will start your computer in Recovery mode.
3. Click on the Utilities menu and select Terminal.
4. Enter csrutil enable.
5. Restart your computer normally.

That’s it

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After restarting, your computer will load the rEFInd boot manager automatically. You will see a screen like the one below. Use the left and right arrows to select an operating system.

A next-generation open source rEFIt UEFI boot manager for Linux, Windows and Mac machines

What's new in rEFInd 0.9.2:

• Soon after releasing 0.9.1, I started receiving bug reports about problems with it and Shim 0.8. (See this thread for one such report.) It turns out that the problem was not a new bug in rEFInd, but rather a change from Shim 0.7 to Shim 0.8 that made it next to useless with rEFInd. Specifically, Shim 0.8 now de-registers itself from the EFI after a follow-on program launches another one. This is done to avoid problems in a boot path in which Shim launches fallback.efi, which in turn launches another Shim. This creates a new problem, though: rEFInd can validate just one binary before it's 'cut off' from Shim. Since rEFInd's drivers are binaries, if you use a single driver, that means that you won't be able to launch anything that requires validation via Shim. I quickly discovered a workaround, which I've implemented in this release. I consider this a 'band-aid' patch, though, because it relies on a quirk of Shim's logic to bypass its de-registration. As such, the workaround in this release may break with a future Shim. A true fix will take longer to develop. I want to release this workaround version to head off further problems in the near term, though. This version also introduces a new feature, which is also Shim-related: Since version 0.7, Shim has supported launching binaries other than grubx64.efi by passing them on the command line. (Actually, Shim 0.4 supported this, but it required a broken path specification.) I've added support for this feature to install.sh: Adding the --keepname option to install.sh causes the script to preserve rEFInd's regular filename and to register the approprirate follow-on parameters to have Shim launch rEFInd by that name. This works, but is likely to be more delicate than using the default Shim follow-on name of grubx64.efi. The advantage, of course, is that rEFInd needn't 'lie' about its name, which makes for less confusion in filenames. For the moment, the RPM and Debian packages I build do not use this new naming feature, since I can't be sure what version of Shim might be picked up. These changes do not affect users who do not use Secure Boot.

rEFInd is an open source boot manager or boot loader that supports Linux, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows operating systems. It’s a fork of the well known rEFIt boot manager, but engineered to support UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface)-based machines.

The application lets users to manually edit and set boot-time options, try Live operating systems that are distributed on bootable CD discs or USB flash drives, launch Linux 3.3.0 and later kernels that are built with EFI stub loader support.

Features at a glance

Key features include support for Secure Boot, which depends on a separate PreLoader or shim program, ability to launch MS Windows and Macintosh recovery utilities, as well as third-party EFI programs like an EFI shell.

When compared with rEFIt, we can immediately notice that rEFInd is able to better handle UEFI-based machines that contain multiple bootloaders and automatically detects installed EFI boot managers. In addition, it provides both text-mode and graphical boot prompts.

In more technical terms, the application features support for EFI 1.x and UEFI 2.x machines, as well as both PCs and Mac platforms. It also supports a wide range of file systems, including EXT2, EXT3, EXT4, Btrfs, ReiserFS, ISO-9660, and HFS+.

Another interesting feature is the ability to reboot into the firmware setup utility of specific UEFIs. Furthermore, the application supports maintenance-free Linux kernel updates, which means that there no need to manually configure certain boot parameters after a kernel update.

Conclusions

All in all, rEFInd is yet another great UEFI boot loader, designed as a drop-in replacement for the GRUB (GRand Unified Bootloader) software. It’s somehow similar to the gummiboot boot manager, but it includes even more features, multiple configuration options, as well as support for numerous filesystems and operating systems. It is navigable with the keyboard and supports custom background images.

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