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rEFInd is a boot menu and maintenance toolkit for UEFI-based machines like all new PCs and Intel Macs. It can be used to boot multiple operating systems.

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Is there a way to boot from ISO file in rEFInd Boot Manager?

I am wonder if there is such feature in rEFInd - to run ISO file located on the USB stick. I can not use any superuser utilities such as dd to write an ISO directly. I can only repack it.
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Is there a generic way to perform a legacy boot from a UEFI only system?

On my Acer Aspire 5 A515-55-58F6, I installed a BIOS update that not only disabled legacy boot (though it was disabled before) but disabled 32-bit EFI boot too, which is very annoying for natively using FreeDOS (the corresponding configuration…
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Triple boot Mac won't boot Windows

I'm attempting to triple boot my MacBook Pro following this guide. I successfully set up a Windows partition with Boot Camp and had rEFInd working. However, I tried to install Ubuntu and now cannot boot into Windows 10 with rEFInd. I get the error…
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Remove RAID0 and move Windows to SSD - Acer Predator 17

Symptom: I've just bought an Acer Predator 17 (model number G9-793-73MB) and although the Technical Specs say it only has two (2) HDs it actually has three (3): 2 M2 SSDs and 1 HDD. However, the 2 SSDs are installed in a RAID-0 array and as RAID-0…
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Is it possible to install EFI(ESP) partition after Ubuntu & Parrot have been installed?

There is a computer which has got installed with Ubuntu and Parrot Security OS. This is all fine and it is running smoothly with Grub. It can boot correctly. When we installed Ubuntu we formatted all the HDD and forgot to install the EFI. When we…
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Using rEFInd to boot Windows 10 with Secure Boot and Bitlocker encryption enabled

I have a corporate laptop (HP Zbook 15) with two m2.sata drives: nvme0: the one that shipped with the computer, featuring Bitlocker encrypted Windows 10 nvme1: a secondary drive running linux I use for development Secure Boot cannot be disabled…
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rEFInd Shows No Boot Options

The grey screen with the rEFInd Boot Management banner comes up but with no entries. Computer is a Dell Inspiron 7573. I've had rEFInd working successfully on a self-built desktop and a 2014 MBP and have no idea what could possibly be causing…
Thomas Ramage
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Can Clonezilla and GParted be put on an EFI partition?

So here's the dilemma: I have a bunch of flash drives I'm trying to set up as multi-boot utility drives for Clonezilla and GParted, and since those utilities don't take up very much space, I'd also like to use the rest of the space on the drive as a…
Next-Door Tech
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rEFInd's EFI file removed but computer still boots on

I'm on multiboot (Ubuntu/LUKS, Win7/VeraCrypt, Win7 unencrypted) and I installed rEFind to tinker few boot things I slightly broke. I nearly made my stuff and now I want to remove it (or at least make it not boot in first). It seems to be an easy…
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Refind stuck on "Scanning for bootloaders, please wait..."

I have Refind 0.11.2 installed at /Volumes/ESP/EFI/BOOT. My main system is macOS 10.13.1, and I have a Windows 10 and Ubuntu partitions. Refind had been working very well so far (apart from the occasional boot coups after macOS updates), but today…
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Have trouble installing rEFind on Mac OS Sierra

Trying to install rEFind on Mac OS using this instruction: or manually. Have following error: Installing rEFInd on OS X.... Warning: root device doesn't have an EFI partition Could not find an EFI partition. Aborting! Seems I removed this partition…
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rEFInd not showing additional Fedora entries

I have a machine that has Windowd 10, Fedora 38, and Fedora 39 installed. When I installed rEFInd, (and then ran mkrlconf on both Fedora installations) it was able to successfully pick up the Windows 10 and Fedora 38. However, it does not show…
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How to hide refind's "Booting OS" splash screen?

I just want a blank screen. I tried these 3 configurations (changes to refind.conf) but it didn't work. not setting "use_graphics_for" (this is the default behavior) setting "user_graphics_for" (no OS supplied as parameter) setting…
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Substitution of kernel version to rEFInd without autodetection

Recently I moved to a rEFInd boot loader. I changed my theme to initramfs by adding include path/to/theme.conf to the end of refind.conf. I want to disable autodetection of some kernels(or delete them via minus when loading because they are…
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Cloning/moving Windows partition to an arbitrary destination on another disk (with access to Linux utilities)

Question Using nothing but the usual relevant Linux utilities like parted, fdisk, ntfsclone, et cetera, in addition to whatever tools come with Windows, like bcdboot and dism, how can one copy or clone an existing Windows 10 installation from one…
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