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Refind boot manager for powerpc macs
Refind boot manager for powerpc macs









If you want to be completely clean, you will want to also remove grub.cfg, grub圆4.efi and shim圆4. For you the boot number appears to be 0002. sudo efibootmgr -b 0002 -B remove all of the Chinese character boot options. You can adapt the commands below: efibootmgr -v at this point, check the numbers of the boot entries. if the refind NVRAM entry gets corrupted). For refind, what worked for me was removing the Chinese character boot entry and manually re-adding refind as a boot entry. rEFInd goes beyond rEFIt in that rEFInd better handles systems with many boot loaders, gives better control over the boot loader search process, and allows users to define their boot loader entries. Like rEFIt, rEFInd can auto-detect your installed EFI boot loaders, and it presents a pretty GUI menu of boot options. That can indeed prevent future confusion, and the risk of your computer trying to boot grub (e.g. rEFInd is a fork of the rEFIt boot manager. Good job on lcearing the NVRAM with efibootmgr. It's not related to grub as far as I know. I dont know oem-config, I guess it's a remnant of the OEM install. So as gm10 said, you must have installed it somehow. Ubiquity is the Mint installer, present on the live CD, and it is not present by default on an installed system. Yes you can purge os-prober, although leaving it wont hurt either, it wont make any difference and will not get grub to come back to your system. To come back to the origin of the thread : Setting up multi-boot on UEFI-based systems has turned out to be quite an ordeal. there are some stuff (pre-boot quirks) that can be done with grub but not with refind (or at least not as easily). The rEFInd boot loader for UEFI Systems: A life (and sanity) saver. refind has only one developer while grub has many.į anything happens to Rod Smith, the project could go dead that cannot happen to grub.

#Refind boot manager for powerpc macs software#

Until the maintainer (Rod Smith) makes a version 1.0 declaring the software stable, you cannot expect distros to use the software as their official bootloader.

refind boot manager for powerpc macs

I think there are also grub for other architectures (e.g. That point makes it way easier to help newbies, at least until everybody has transitionned to EFI. And it works both for Legacy/BIOS and EFI computers. Grub has been there for a long time, is known to be stable and reliable (mostly). I can see the following reasons for this (maybe I missed others) : but, cleaning the menu from duplicating boot files are as easy as pressing delete buttons.

refind boot manager for powerpc macs

However, it's only recognize efi boots and also it will automatically include kernel which make the os menu duplicate. There are some distros (Porteus if I remember correctly) that do, but it has not yet been adopted by "mainstream" distros (say ubuntu and derivatives, debian, fedora.). It has a theme support and easy to configure with text-based. To get more users, it would need to be adopted as the default bootloader by some distros. In fact most people who discover it adopt it.









Refind boot manager for powerpc macs