This guide is pretty much straightforward on getting rEFInd to work, nice! It's been interesting to try it for my triple boot macOS/Pop! OS (now ZorinOS)/Windows PC -- though for obvious reasons I actually don't recommend wanting to use this if you use OpenCore as bootloader for macOS. The devs at OpenCore have already said so, and it's easy to see why -- sometimes rEFInd does not recognize OpenCore on the options, and whenever it is recognized and you boot to it to get to OpenCore, by the time you restart, OpenCore usually most of the time takes over as the main bootloader, and you might as well use Del or F2 to the BIOS setup each time. For just Windows and Linux though, sure, it's a neat option.
Thank you so much! Just solved my problem with a cloned Pop_OS boot. It always booted with console GRUB and was a huge pain to boot with a problem that I was not finding out. Saw about this rEFInd in the Pop_OS forum and you helped so much! Best regards Herbert!
That is amazing..I wish I saw this video sooner..You sir have earned a sub..And Ive never subscribed before. Keep up the great videos. I'll be watching.
i try again reinstall pop_os and now when install Refind is doesn't work, when Refind Menu is open cant see Linux (pop os option) only windows 10. Don't understand why now is not work. mi pc not recognice linux option
Thanks so much it works like charm! I installed windows 10 after a clean install of Pop_os. Windows bootloader became the default bootloader and of course it doesn't recognise linux os, so my PC would boot into windows 10 by default. However I got into the advanced startup options and I managed to boot into pop_os then I installed rEFInd and it became the default bootloader. It manged to recognise windows 10 and Pop_os, they both work just fine now.
Thank you so so much. I installed pop os, zorin, mint and win10 in a Toshiba laptop. When I pushed f12, the boot option only shows the hard drive NOT each operating system. I almost gave up till I researched online and found your video. It's interesting that in addition to the zorin booloader including zorin, mint and win10, each of them has their individual boot option so I can directly boot into each os. Thank you again and Happy New Year.
Good Morning! I'm from Brazil and I couldn't understand the pronunciation of which key to press to hide Refind's boot options, could you help me? Thank you.
Hi, I just burnt a copy of rEFind to a CD-R and booted it up on my Mac Pro 2,1 (using alt key at start up) and my machine boots into the rEFind menu but how to I procede from here? I would like to install a Linux distro on my Mac Pro 2,1 but so far I've had no luck. Also, when I boot into rEFind, it automatically boots into my macOS after 7 seconds. Any tips you can provide would be appreciated
I tried Dual Boot Linux Mint 20 with Chrome OS and I get a white screen of Refind. However If I just install Linux Mint, it works fine, Any Suggestion what to add to the menuentry for Refind? Grub works fine and both Entries are There. Anyone????
Thanks for the video. If I understand correctly, you left only an entry that boots a specific kernel version of POP_OS, so if you install a new kernel, you have to update Refind as well? If you leave the GRUB entry (that you deleted), this should not be required anymore: you just boot in the POP's GRUB which is kept up-to-date automatically when you install a new kernel. Is that right?
Where do i install it? Im not using windows neither linux.. i just use the pc to boot from “Batocera” on sata or “Batocera” on a usb pen drive with microsd. Since they are the same system, and even selecting on the bios boot from usb, it always starts from hdd… this will solve?
My friend, I have an acer aspire e5 575g, and when I typed the "sudo apt install refind" it said, "EFI variables are not supported in this system. And now every time I try to go into windows only the GNU grub appears and I don't know what to do, hope you can help
sometimes grub like to reinstall itself - command to freeze grub: sudo apt-mark hold grub-efi-amd64 grub-efi-amd64-signed grub-common grub-efi-amd64-bin grub-common grub2-common
you solved my headache with trying to set up dual booting with Grub, somehow when I tried Grub it deleted something Windows needed in order to boot so I had to reinstall win 11 but with refind set up I don't have to mash keys to get into bios when I want to switch which is awesome!
Hey I m using Windows in front of Linux but accidentally I deleted the boot of Linux and I m not able to run Linux anymore but when I turn my PC on it will boot from window directly plz help me to boot from Linux Sorry for my bad english
I was hoping to learn to change the label "Ubuntu" and it's logo into "Mint". I have some pride in what I choose to install, I want to see "Mint"! (although PopOS is pretty cool)
I followed the tutorial, but the rEFInd screen doesn't show the Windows option, always a list of options related to my pop os with a penguin or a weird logo with a lot of arrows
Thank you very much, i was trying with os-prober, but it doesn't work for me in Pop 20.10. With this method using rEFInd i have not problems at all ;-)
Where does it install it to though? On the drive? I have two drives that I swap between and my computer never remembers what to boot to and always goes to the efi shell. I want to put this onto a usb flash drive and leave it plugged in inside the computer.
Thanks you , i just did one modification of my own , i made a new 512mb fat32 partition, and installed refind to that , so when i boot , have the option to boot into systemd-boot on the original partition which is untouched (should make upgrades safer) , or windows boot loader
Nice tutorial this worked for windows and pop os. I was looking for a way to not show the efi that I will never use and this works so I now only have windows and pop os.
Thanks for the video I tried to follow your instructions but I did not get quite the same experience. I have UEFI mobo with Secure Boot turned off. I have Windows on an nvme drive and PopOS on a 2.5 SSD. Installed refind with the two commands that you showed rebooted but the Windows icon did not show up at all and the Ubuntu neither I got a whole bunch of penguins instead. In one of them I got into PopOs but to get to Windows I still have to press F11 and selected it from there. I have uninstalled refind following the instructions on the refind site and then sudo apt remove but refind still shows up as a boot option in the bios (even though it does nothing at this point). Do you have any ideas of what that could be? Do you think it has anything to do with the one the ssds being an nvme and being physically attached to the motherboard?
Hi, this is a really useful video! I'm planning on dual booting Windows and Linux. I have a question around sleep/hibernate, do you find your pop os distro having sleep/hibernate issues when waking up?
Yes, I have. Things like fast boot in the UEFI/BIOS can interrupt that process, also make sure your swap partition is big enough to fit your memory size.
I was trying to install grub dispite knowing it will not support on pop os... Thanks for this video Now I don't have to jump in boot menu on every re-start...
Thanks for the video! Now, how do I uninstall it? :/ I decided I didn't like the lack of options (like setting a default operating system), and I want to remove it now. Also, is this app installed on the hard drive? Or has it embedded itself into the bios (is that even possible?)? If I replace my hard drive (which I'm planning on doing as soon as I get the part in the mail), will rEFInd still be there?
Hey there! rEFInd is not stored inside the EFI firmware, it's stored in the EFI partition on the hard drive. You can install GRUB, then mount the EFI partition in Linux and remove the rEFInd folder and boot from GRUB. Hope this helps! :)
@@HerbertechI'm brand-spanking new to Linux, so I don't know how to do that yet. However, it sounds like I don't have to worry about it, anyway, since I'm replacing my hard drive and will be doing fresh installs of both operating systems. I wish there were more boot managers. I tried EasyBCD on the Windows platform, but Microsoft doesn't allow it to do its thing in EFI mode. I'm currently reading up on how to bypass this so that I can use EasyBCD with the new installation. So far, I've read that EFI is more secure, though, so should I avoid installing Windows in legacy mode (if that's even possible on a newer system)?
Btw, I'm not an IT person or anything--just a computer hobbyist. I used to know all kinds of stuff, but I've been out of the loop for about 12 years now, so I have to learn all over again.
@@fyaerwe You should watch my video on how to install GRUB on pop-os (read the pinned post too before you continue), it works pretty much for any Linux distro. It is the best bootloader with the most options imo, rEFInd is just prettier. I havent tried easyBCD, I always used GRUB and it always did what it had to do. :)
My problem with bootloaders is that they don't like to stay in their place. They all try to take over, and change the bios so that they're the one that gets booted first. Grub is real bad about this. It'll go that way for awhile, and then as if by magic, the windows bootloader starts trying to take over again. All on it's own. I wish they guard the bios as law. Whatever the user set for boot, can never be altered by any program, ever. Then and only then would I trust installing and messing around with bootloaders.
you can bypass grub (actually its probably really grub2) this way. You can also boot into Grub from rEFInd, and grub will show up in some way on the menu at first. Are you really trying to fix grub, or just get around it?
Appreciate the video! Definitely more convenient for me than spamming F12 on boot, haha
This guide is pretty much straightforward on getting rEFInd to work, nice!
It's been interesting to try it for my triple boot macOS/Pop! OS (now ZorinOS)/Windows PC -- though for obvious reasons I actually don't recommend wanting to use this if you use OpenCore as bootloader for macOS. The devs at OpenCore have already said so, and it's easy to see why -- sometimes rEFInd does not recognize OpenCore on the options, and whenever it is recognized and you boot to it to get to OpenCore, by the time you restart, OpenCore usually most of the time takes over as the main bootloader, and you might as well use Del or F2 to the BIOS setup each time.
For just Windows and Linux though, sure, it's a neat option.
And to think that I thought that installing rEFInd would be complicated... I was wrong for real. Thanks a lot for your video. It really helped me.
Thank you so much! Just solved my problem with a cloned Pop_OS boot. It always booted with console GRUB and was a huge pain to boot with a problem that I was not finding out. Saw about this rEFInd in the Pop_OS forum and you helped so much! Best regards Herbert!
Great video! Was looking for instructions all over and I'm glad I came across this video. Thanks!
That is amazing..I wish I saw this video sooner..You sir have earned a sub..And Ive never subscribed before. Keep up the great videos. I'll be watching.
i try again reinstall pop_os and now when install Refind is doesn't work, when Refind Menu is open cant see Linux (pop os option) only windows 10. Don't understand why now is not work. mi pc not recognice linux option
Thanks so much it works like charm!
I installed windows 10 after a clean install of Pop_os. Windows bootloader became the default bootloader and of course it doesn't recognise linux os, so my PC would boot into windows 10 by default. However I got into the advanced startup options and I managed to boot into pop_os then I installed rEFInd and it became the default bootloader. It manged to recognise windows 10 and Pop_os, they both work just fine now.
Hello guy you just saved my life because it's been 3 days I could not access my mac thank you again
I really thought this was hard. Im doing it on kali linux. Very easy and I reccomend 100 percent!!
Thank you so so much. I installed pop os, zorin, mint and win10 in a Toshiba laptop. When I pushed f12, the boot option only shows the hard drive NOT each operating system. I almost gave up till I researched online and found your video. It's interesting that in addition to the zorin booloader including zorin, mint and win10, each of them has their individual boot option so I can directly boot into each os. Thank you again and Happy New Year.
Good Morning!
I'm from Brazil and I couldn't understand the pronunciation of which key to press to hide Refind's boot options, could you help me? Thank you.
Should be the "delete" key, hope that works. :)
Amazing, informative and clear steps plus nice voice dude I'm your new subscriber.
Hi, I just burnt a copy of rEFind to a CD-R and booted it up on my Mac Pro 2,1 (using alt key at start up) and my machine boots into the rEFind menu but how to I procede from here? I would like to install a Linux distro on my Mac Pro 2,1 but so far I've had no luck. Also, when I boot into rEFind, it automatically boots into my macOS after 7 seconds. Any tips you can provide would be appreciated
I tried Dual Boot Linux Mint 20 with Chrome OS and I get a white screen of Refind. However If I just install Linux Mint, it works fine, Any Suggestion what to add to the menuentry for Refind?
Grub works fine and both Entries are There. Anyone????
Nice vid bro, thanks for posting.
How does one set custom kernel parameters for refind? Having a hard time to understand
Thanks for the video. If I understand correctly, you left only an entry that boots a specific kernel version of POP_OS, so if you install a new kernel, you have to update Refind as well? If you leave the GRUB entry (that you deleted), this should not be required anymore: you just boot in the POP's GRUB which is kept up-to-date automatically when you install a new kernel. Is that right?
Where do i install it? Im not using windows neither linux.. i just use the pc to boot from “Batocera” on sata or “Batocera” on a usb pen drive with microsd. Since they are the same system, and even selecting on the bios boot from usb, it always starts from hdd… this will solve?
Mine is showing empty only its return qrefind bjt not the icons of windows or ubuntu
My friend, I have an acer aspire e5 575g, and when I typed the "sudo apt install refind" it said, "EFI variables are not supported in this system. And now every time I try to go into windows only the GNU grub appears and I don't know what to do, hope you can help
Thank you so much, I always wished system76 had a "install alongside" feature for pop os!
they do! it use systemd-boot and you can probe Windows or whatever in 1 command, reboot, and it's there!
Something to note is that your new bootloader entry (refind) will get deleted if BIOS updates. And basically the only option is to reinstall refind.
sometimes grub like to reinstall itself - command to freeze grub: sudo apt-mark hold grub-efi-amd64 grub-efi-amd64-signed grub-common grub-efi-amd64-bin grub-common grub2-common
Hi. Nice video. Maybe can you make a video about creating a submenu entries for any linux OS?
you solved my headache with trying to set up dual booting with Grub, somehow when I tried Grub it deleted something Windows needed in order to boot so I had to reinstall win 11 but with refind set up I don't have to mash keys to get into bios when I want to switch which is awesome!
Hey I m using Windows in front of Linux but accidentally I deleted the boot of Linux and I m not able to run Linux anymore but when I turn my PC on it will boot from window directly plz help me to boot from Linux
Sorry for my bad english
Well... i did all the steps on pop_os too, but rEFInd did not show on the uefi-bios. do i need to do something there?
I'm stuck with a menu with no icons. Please help 🥺
@@kevind3946 Hi, nothing worked for me. So I decided to install Refind in an old USB stick and it's always plugged in
@@danilobassi8 copy. Thanks
I was hoping to learn to change the label "Ubuntu" and it's logo into "Mint". I have some pride in what I choose to install, I want to see "Mint"! (although PopOS is pretty cool)
I followed the tutorial, but the rEFInd screen doesn't show the Windows option, always a list of options related to my pop os with a penguin or a weird logo with a lot of arrows
this is my first time using linux, so the possibility of doing something really wrong is real
This does not work on pop 20.10. I did everything exactly and I can't revert back. Please help me.
Great video and works for me even though I was UEFI mode in Windows. Thanks
Thank you very much, i was trying with os-prober, but it doesn't work for me in Pop 20.10. With this method using rEFInd i have not problems at all ;-)
Where does it install it to though? On the drive? I have two drives that I swap between and my computer never remembers what to boot to and always goes to the efi shell. I want to put this onto a usb flash drive and leave it plugged in inside the computer.
I want to install rEFind from legacy OS.efi bootloaders are not accessable .
Is it possible to use this for Fedora? I hate that you can't use Grub Customizer in Fedora.
Yes. command would be:
The second portion though…haven’t quite figured that out yet😓
Great vid man! Can you also make a video on how to theme rEFInd?
I plan on doing one in the future. :)
Thanks you , i just did one modification of my own , i made a new 512mb fat32 partition, and installed refind to that , so when i boot , have the option to boot into systemd-boot on the original partition which is untouched (should make upgrades safer) , or windows boot loader
Nice tutorial this worked for windows and pop os. I was looking for a way to not show the efi that I will never use and this works so I now only have windows and pop os.
Thanks for the video I tried to follow your instructions but I did not get quite the same experience. I have UEFI mobo with Secure Boot turned off. I have Windows on an nvme drive and PopOS on a 2.5 SSD. Installed refind with the two commands that you showed rebooted but the Windows icon did not show up at all and the Ubuntu neither I got a whole bunch of penguins instead. In one of them I got into PopOs but to get to Windows I still have to press F11 and selected it from there. I have uninstalled refind following the instructions on the refind site and then sudo apt remove but refind still shows up as a boot option in the bios (even though it does nothing at this point). Do you have any ideas of what that could be? Do you think it has anything to do with the one the ssds being an nvme and being physically attached to the motherboard?
Thank you so much. I have been looking for this.
I don't have Ubuntu, I have a Win10 on one drive and OSX Hackintosh on another. How should I install this?
Hi, this is a really useful video! I'm planning on dual booting Windows and Linux. I have a question around sleep/hibernate, do you find your pop os distro having sleep/hibernate issues when waking up?
Yes, I have. Things like fast boot in the UEFI/BIOS can interrupt that process, also make sure your swap partition is big enough to fit your memory size.
Will this work for Mac Pro 5,1 systems? I'm currently on the windows side of my bootcamp but I want to use rEFind because I have a non EFI GPU.
It should work for Mac too, it says so on the website. You'll find instructions there too.
after installing, windows 10 isnt showing up on rEfInd. what am i doing wrong?
Great video! Is there a way to change the position of the boot loader icons (I.e., move the Windows boot loader icon to the right). Thanks!
I was trying to install grub dispite knowing it will not support on pop os...
Thanks for this video
Now I don't have to jump in boot menu on every re-start...
Hi, can you do a guide on how to get rEFInd working with secure boot?
Can you make video on How to install refined on windows os?
So i just partition my drive in 2, install windows on one, linux on the other then from linux install this? and im all good? (sorry I am new to this)
Thanks man, worked perfectly!!
Thanks for the video! Now, how do I uninstall it? :/ I decided I didn't like the lack of options (like setting a default operating system), and I want to remove it now. Also, is this app installed on the hard drive? Or has it embedded itself into the bios (is that even possible?)? If I replace my hard drive (which I'm planning on doing as soon as I get the part in the mail), will rEFInd still be there?
Hey there! rEFInd is not stored inside the EFI firmware, it's stored in the EFI partition on the hard drive. You can install GRUB, then mount the EFI partition in Linux and remove the rEFInd folder and boot from GRUB. Hope this helps! :)
@@HerbertechI'm brand-spanking new to Linux, so I don't know how to do that yet. However, it sounds like I don't have to worry about it, anyway, since I'm replacing my hard drive and will be doing fresh installs of both operating systems. I wish there were more boot managers. I tried EasyBCD on the Windows platform, but Microsoft doesn't allow it to do its thing in EFI mode. I'm currently reading up on how to bypass this so that I can use EasyBCD with the new installation. So far, I've read that EFI is more secure, though, so should I avoid installing Windows in legacy mode (if that's even possible on a newer system)?
Btw, I'm not an IT person or anything--just a computer hobbyist. I used to know all kinds of stuff, but I've been out of the loop for about 12 years now, so I have to learn all over again.
@@fyaerwe You should watch my video on how to install GRUB on pop-os (read the pinned post too before you continue), it works pretty much for any Linux distro. It is the best bootloader with the most options imo, rEFInd is just prettier. I havent tried easyBCD, I always used GRUB and it always did what it had to do. :)
i have : xp/7/10 can i install this bootloader (i will install ubuntu if neccecary)
do u know how to set linux as the default boot entry?
It should remember which OS you booted last. To set a default one, you can edit the config file I guess.
hey could you share your theme setup?
Way too easy. I was worried but wow. Color me impressed.
Gotta try this now 👌👌👌 so clean
Nice one mate, much appreciated.
Working ! Thank you friend.
Can be installed with Linux Mint?
Worked with Pop!_OS 21.10.
Thanks!
thanks man, you helped me a lot
My problem with bootloaders is that they don't like to stay in their place. They all try to take over, and change the bios so that they're the one that gets booted first. Grub is real bad about this. It'll go that way for awhile, and then as if by magic, the windows bootloader starts trying to take over again. All on it's own. I wish they guard the bios as law. Whatever the user set for boot, can never be altered by any program, ever. Then and only then would I trust installing and messing around with bootloaders.
how i unninstall it?
Will this solve " Grub " problem?
you can bypass grub (actually its probably really grub2) this way. You can also boot into Grub from rEFInd, and grub will show up in some way on the menu at first. Are you really trying to fix grub, or just get around it?
@@squirlmy how can you disable grub? I have been searching everywhere
Will it work for pop os & windows dual boot
Yes. It even works four quadruple boot.
thank you so much
Totally Brilliant!
Thanks :) it worked
Might want to put LINUX in your video title.
Gotcha! ;)
Thanks a lot!! You save my disaster! :P
Awesome tutorial
Thank You
Thanks !! Great !!
ur amazing bro keep it up
thank you so much!!
thanks man!!
This is cool!
Great content - bad sound
Thanks for the feedback. I'll be sure to get that sound right.
hence 3-1 = 3
thaaaaaaank youuuuuuuuu
Thanks alot
a bit quiet
omg video is too loud
@pk4tech
Dude thank you so much