Hi everyone, thanks for your support on this video! Just a note: unless you know what you're doing and have some experience with bootloaders, it's probably not a good idea to mess around with this on any PC that you can't afford to brick! Making a mistake can make the system unbootable and while there are ways around this, it can be time consuming and frustrating. Try it out in a VM or non-critical machine first:)
This isn't something you should play around with if you don't know what you are doing, this guy explains it like it's totally safe and easy to do, which isn't true, if you can't restore any bootloader manually this is not for you to experiment with, don't touch it.
Wow you're ooold ! jk, I remember it too. Actually I was infatuated with XOSL when it first came out. I still see resemblances of it here and there, including in rEFInd.
I am trying to set up a triple boot system. It is a laptop with three physical SSDs: one for each OS. SSD #1 has debian linux, SSD #2 has Windows 11, and SSD #3 (installed in the CD bay) has Manjaro linux. Refind did not detect my Windows installation. Further, my boot menu shows no entry for the refind utility. It shows three large icons (debian, debian, manjaro) and four smaller icons on the second row (info, manage hidden, shut down, reboot). I did choose the option to show refind as you illlustrated. I used *nala* instead of apt to install the refind package. I'll rewatch the video and do more research. I just wanted to report my out-of-box experience. Thanks.
Configuring the boot manager can be tricky. You could try uninstalling rEFInd using the linux script and then trying again, or you could try installing it through Windows using the instructions on the website (in the video description). Unfortunately, each case is unique so I'm sorry I couldn't help more:)
Brother I have a touch screen tablet and I want to use refind as this the only boot manger with touch support. I have installed dual boot system with windows 11 and Chrome OS and also successfully installed refind but unble to boot chrome OS from it. Can you help me create chrome OS entry in refind?
Man dude straight up I cannot get a theme to work for the life of me. I have followed every instruction exactly. When I escalate privileges, I still see no icons in the folders. What is going on? Edit: Never mind. The file name had -master in it and the compatibility was broken. Make sure that the config file and the file/folder name match EXACTLY.
Brother, can you help me with an issue? How can I increase the dualboot OS selection time? It literally waits for 10 seconds and boots into the first OS selected, so how can I increase that time?
This is really easy to change. Using your linux installation, go to the file system /boot/efi/EFI/refind (or something like that). In there there's a file called refind.conf. Inside that there's a setting you can change that sets the boot time, hope this helps:)
Hi everyone, thanks for your support on this video!
Just a note: unless you know what you're doing and have some experience with bootloaders, it's probably not a good idea to mess around with this on any PC that you can't afford to brick! Making a mistake can make the system unbootable and while there are ways around this, it can be time consuming and frustrating. Try it out in a VM or non-critical machine first:)
when it is literally just one command why do so??
Best video about reFind! Thank You for 10 minutes of proper concentrated info!
This isn't something you should play around with if you don't know what you are doing, this guy explains it like it's totally safe and easy to do, which isn't true, if you can't restore any bootloader manually this is not for you to experiment with, don't touch it.
Just have two bootloaders while you are setting it up, you can always boot into another bootloader with bios boot choice.
reFind or Grub is really no choice after watching this video. Thanks for saving me hours of f-ing with Grub.
Also this reminds me of my once loved and treasured System Comander. The best bit of software ever.
Wow you're ooold ! jk, I remember it too. Actually I was infatuated with XOSL when it first came out. I still see resemblances of it here and there, including in rEFInd.
The best Video On REFIND i have found. Very Detailed explanation ! GREAT !
Many Thanx :D
Glad it was helpful!
Great video 👍Could you make a video on how to install the different themes shown at the end of this video, especially refind nord by jaltuna
This is exactly what I was looking for, thank you very much.
I am trying to set up a triple boot system. It is a laptop with three physical SSDs: one for each OS. SSD #1 has debian linux, SSD #2 has Windows 11, and SSD #3 (installed in the CD bay) has Manjaro linux.
Refind did not detect my Windows installation. Further, my boot menu shows no entry for the refind utility. It shows three large icons (debian, debian, manjaro) and four smaller icons on the second row (info, manage hidden, shut down, reboot).
I did choose the option to show refind as you illlustrated. I used *nala* instead of apt to install the refind package. I'll rewatch the video and do more research. I just wanted to report my out-of-box experience. Thanks.
Configuring the boot manager can be tricky. You could try uninstalling rEFInd using the linux script and then trying again, or you could try installing it through Windows using the instructions on the website (in the video description). Unfortunately, each case is unique so I'm sorry I couldn't help more:)
Does it work? when the secureboot is enabled
hi, what do i do if i have secure boot enabled?
May I ask? Can this work flawlessly on Nvidia graphics cards. I've heard many bad things about rEFInd not working correctly with Nvidia drivers.
_Be healthy!_
_Thank You for the information!_ 🇷🇺
Can you boot into a live CD
linux distro and install it for Windows 11 ?
works great, thank you
Need help - even after adding include line at end of the refind.conf it still does not work please help
Does it work if the systems are in different drives??
Yes
What do you think a boot loader is??? Of course it will work!
Very helpful videos thank you.👍
Some reason my efi folder is empty and there is no EFI folder inside it
Brother I have a touch screen tablet and I want to use refind as this the only boot manger with touch support. I have installed dual boot system with windows 11 and Chrome OS and also successfully installed refind but unble to boot chrome OS from it. Can you help me create chrome OS entry in refind?
always have error dual boot installing (win11 - Ubuntu) ubuntu won't install and have error in old MSI GE62 gaming laptop
Thanks for the video
Very helpful
Thank you! Very good to know
Do you have a video on configuring of rEFInd?
It's currently in the works!
wow this video is a godsent
thanks so much!
Don't have for Windows anymore and the page is bugged
Man dude straight up I cannot get a theme to work for the life of me. I have followed every instruction exactly. When I escalate privileges, I still see no icons in the folders. What is going on?
Edit: Never mind. The file name had -master in it and the compatibility was broken. Make sure that the config file and the file/folder name match EXACTLY.
Brother, can you help me with an issue? How can I increase the dualboot OS selection time? It literally waits for 10 seconds and boots into the first OS selected, so how can I increase that time?
This is really easy to change. Using your linux installation, go to the file system /boot/efi/EFI/refind (or something like that). In there there's a file called refind.conf. Inside that there's a setting you can change that sets the boot time, hope this helps:)
Bro im unable to hide boot fallback boot loader
Cany open efi folder in boot on debian at all, doesnt even ask for a password
Will this command work on steam deck?
I'm not familiar with Steam Deck myself, but check out this github page for some ideas: github.com/ryanrudolfoba/SteamDeck-Clover-dualboot
@@bytesized12okay but do the style on refind please i like your video though
Which one is free
Bill gates as a linux user i like it xD