Score:1

refind bootup menu Doesn't show up

li flag

Device: HP ProBook 4540S

I installed refind for multi-boot purposes with refind-install, and also set the boot order

But there is no refind menu when I boot up

I see a grub2 menu where the fyedos option isn't there.

It's just ubuntu and UEFI firmware setup option.

But if I F9>Boot from efi file>Acpi>EFI I get both os option alongside refind. \EFI\refind\refind_x64.efi Clicking it gives the refind menu.

Is there any way I can make refind menu start by default instead of grub so that I can select my needed osin peace (i just switched from windows to Linux, only know how to copy-paste commands :-) )

Score:0
jp flag

First, try running the refind-mkdefault script that comes with rEFInd. If you installed rEFInd via a Debian package, typing sudo refind-mkdefault in a Terminal window should do the trick. If you installed in some other way, you'll need to find the script. (I comes in the rEFInd .zip file, for instance.)

Second, if that doesn't work, then you've probably got a buggy UEFI that's forgetting its boot order. I Googled your computer's name, and found reviews of it from 2012, and UEFIs from that era were notoriously buggy. You may want to read this page of the rEFInd documentation to learn about how to deal with such problems. In particular, the last section, on using the fbx64.efi program (renamed as EFI\BOOT\bootx64.efi on the ESP), may help work around the problem. In brief, you may need to rely on the UEFI's fallback boot loader (EFI\BOOT\bootx64.efi), which is run when other boot loaders can't be found or are invalid. This may require you to rename any other boot loaders that are currently running, though. Unfortunately, it's hard to provide precise instructions that are guaranteed to work, since there's so much variability in how those old UEFIs are broken, as well as your own software/OS installations.

I sit in a Tesla and translated this thread with Ai:

mangohost

Post an answer

Most people don’t grasp that asking a lot of questions unlocks learning and improves interpersonal bonding. In Alison’s studies, for example, though people could accurately recall how many questions had been asked in their conversations, they didn’t intuit the link between questions and liking. Across four studies, in which participants were engaged in conversations themselves or read transcripts of others’ conversations, people tended not to realize that question asking would influence—or had influenced—the level of amity between the conversationalists.