Re: Replace Grub with rEFInd [WAS Possibly broken Grub or initrd after updates on Testing]
On Wed, Jan 03, 2024 at 08:23:29PM +0100, Richard Rosner wrote:
> So, since for whatever reason Grub seems to be broken beyond repair, I today
> tried to just replace it with rEFInd. Installation succeeded without any
> trouble. But when I start my system, rEFInd just asks me if I want to boot
> with fwupd or with the still very broken Grub. Am I missing something? Is
> rEFInd really just something to select between different OSs (and not just
> different distributions like Grub can very well do) and then gives the rest
> over to their bootloaders or am I missing something so rEFInd will take over
> all of Grubs jobs?
I boot my debian-based system with rEFInd. Grub is not
present. A couple big icons show on the boot screen. The
small print at the bottom mentions hit F2 for more options.
On my system, F2 offers a selection among all kernels
present.
rEFInd installs into EFI/refind/ in the EFI partition.
I originally encountered it looking for something to
boot debian on a Intel Mac. It's been trouble-free.
> On 01.01.24 21:45, Richard Rosner wrote:
> >
> >
> > On 01.01.24 21:20, Richard Rosner wrote:
> > >
> > > On 01.01.24 20:30, David Wright wrote:
> > > > On Mon 01 Jan 2024 at 19:04:20 (+0100), Richard Rosner wrote:
> > > > > On 01.01.24 18:13, David Wright wrote:
> > > > > I can boot by hand, but since this is all archived anyways and it's
> > > > > uneccessarily difficult to find some sort of guide how to even do
> > > > > this, it might as well be a documentation for users having such
> > > > > troubles in the future.
> > > > >
> > > > > Also, besides the way that I have no clue how it would have to look
> > > > > like to set up a paragraph in the grub.cfg, I simply don't see
> > > > > anything wrong with it anyways. So I can't even look at the grub
> > > > > settings files grub.cfg is being generated from to check where the
> > > > > error lies.
> > > > You append the commands that you used to boot manually with into
> > > > /etc/grub.d/40_custom, observing the comments there, and also into
> > > > grub.cfg itself at the appropriate place (near the bottom). The
> > > > former is so that Grub includes it in any new grub.cfg that you
> > > > create.
> > > Good to know.
> > Edit:, never mind. Tried that, it still booted straight to the UEFI BIOS
> > menu after entering my password. At this point, I'm seriously
> > considering slapping rEFInd on it and pray that it picks up on
> > everything automatically and fix the situation. But so should Grub have,
> > besides the fact that I can't even be entirely sure Grub is to blame and
> > not something else.
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Joel Roth
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