nobugs wrote:@srs5694,
Part of my refind.conf file. Do I need to uncomment internal, external, optical and manual to agree with the scanfor line. Particularly if I start say Mint 15 or 13 from a USB stick or a DVD.
refind.conf file:-
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# Which types of boot loaders to search, and in what order to display them:
# internal - internal EFI disk-based boot loaders
# external - external EFI disk-based boot loaders
# optical - EFI optical discs (CD, DVD, etc.)
hdbios - BIOS disk-based boot loaders
biosexternal - BIOS external boot loaders (USB, eSATA, etc.)
cd - BIOS optical-disc boot loaders
Do not uncomment the preceding three lines; they're part of the description of what the options are. Instead....
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scanfor internal,external,optical,manual
Adjust the options here, on the "scanfor" line. For instance, add "hdbios" to the options if you want to tell rEFInd to give you BIOS boot options for an internal hard disk.
nobugs wrote:
Although my system is booting fine now, save for the inability to hide the text on startup, I'm thinking of starting afresh and installing Mint 13. To do this, I would like to remove all traces of rEFInd from my system, get it working with grub and then install refind again.[/quote]
If you did a rEFInd installation from a Debian package, the files will exist scattered about the Mint root partition and in the ESP's EFI/refind directory tree. The ones in the Mint root partition will be erased when you erase it to re-install Mint. Prior to re-installing Mint, mount the ESP somewhere (/boot/efi is the default) and delete that directory -- so something like "sudo rm -r /boot/efi/EFI/refind" will remove rEFInd from the ESP.
For that matter, if you have no other OS installed, you might want to just delete the ESP entirely and create a new one. I recommend making it 550MiB in size. (This can help avoid some weird glitches on some EFIs, although smaller is usually OK.) If you're keeping Windows, though, it's best to keep the ESP you've got now and just clean it out, since the Windows boot loader resides there too. Deleting the ESP will render Windows unbootable.
nobugs wrote:From my difficulties, I may have two versions of grub as well, as I have seen ver 1.99 and ver 2.00 appear when I was testing the solutions.
One or both of those may be on the ESP, as well, probably under EFI/linuxmint or EFI/{some_other_distribution_name}, so you can have a look for them and delete them manually. It's possible that one, or even both, of these installations is a BIOS-mode one, though. You can remove the key first stage of a BIOS-mode GRUB installation with:
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sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=440 count=1
Be aware, though, that this command is potentially quite risky. If you omit the "count=1" part, set the wrong value there (or as a "bs=" option), or set the wrong "of=" value, you could trash your hard disk or at least create new problems. Also, if something other than GRUB is installed in the MBR of the disk, you'll erase it.
piovrauz wrote:srs5694 wrote:A /boot/refind_linux.conf file. This file holds boot options that are passed to the kernel.
He's saying you can also use that to remove the text and have the nice logo back (pretty sure you can add the backlight option here too). I had a read at the refind docs, and I think you can do it in the refind.conf too (the "
Creating OS Stanzas" seems relevant, exp the "options" switch in the menuentry section); well, you have to have thos menu defined, but I think it's easier than stting grub.
Correct; however, the manual configuration via OS stanzas tends to be tricky for new users. It's generally better to stick with auto-detection of kernels and a /boot/refind_linux.conf file.
Appreciated!