Good to know that it should be possible. But as mentioned, these symbols only offer me to boot from grub or fwupd. F2 also doesn't show that much more, it merely gives me the option to boot into the BIOS settings. Maybe I'll have to completely purge all Grub packages, wipe the existing EFI partition and then try to install rEFInd. I'll have to check.
On Thu, Jan 4, 2024, 09:29 Joel Roth <jo...@pobox.com> wrote: > 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. > > -- > Joel Roth > >
