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OK, for some reason I guess that you're switching back and forth from the Arch iso and OS X, to see Arch installation and to come online to see the forum.In such constrain it would be opportune for you to run a live distro with GUI, it would be easier with Archbang, because of its similitude to Arch.When you'll be there, you'll be able to get the information as proposed, so we can understand better.From the GUI you may perform task within a windowed console and have the browser alongside.Last edited by TheSaint (2014-11-25 20:21:48).
Hi,I'm running mint 14 with kernel 3.8.0 dual booting with bt5 kernel 3.2.6I installed refind from the.deb package and it gave me this output:CAUTION: Your computer appears to support Secure Boot, but you haven'tspecified a valid shim.efi file source. If you've disabled Secure Boot andintend to leave it disabled, this is fine; but if Secure Boot is active, theresulting installation won't boot. You can read more about this topic at.I don't think secure boot is enabled since my laptop was shipped with windows 7.
The problem is that there's no option to disable secure boot on this BIOS (Insyde H20)After I rebooted it was like nothing changed, GRUB show up as I never installed refind.Can you help me? Code: wolf@blackbird $ sudo efibootmgr -c -l 'EFIrefindrefindx64.efi' -L rEFIndBootCurrent: 0000BootOrder: 0001,0000Boot0000.
Windows Boot ManagerBoot0001. rEFIndwolf@blackbird $ sudo efibootmgr -vBootCurrent: 0000BootOrder: 0001,0000Boot0000. Windows Boot ManagerHD(1,800,2f000,d2553afc-f274-4dc7-80e3-3bda881ba3d0)File(EFIMicrosoftBootbootmgfw.efi)RCBoot0001. rEFIndHD(1,800,2f000,d2553afc-f274-4dc7-80e3-3bda881ba3d0)File(EFIrefindrefindx64.efi)wolf@blackbird $After reboot. Cyberwolf,It seems you've got a broken EFI that's dropping changes to its NVRAM.
(Or looked at another way, there's a bug in efibootmgr that prevents it from working with your firmware.) There are several possible solutions to this problem:. Boot to an EFI version 2 shell and use its 'bcfg' command to add rEFInd to the boot list. This sometimes works when efibootmgr doesn't. This is a little complex, though. See the for information on how to do this. Note that you'll probably have to prepare a bootable USB flash drive or the like with an EFI version 2 shell to get this to work.
Look for firmware options to add a boot loader to the firmware's boot menu. Most firmware implementations do not provide such an option, which is unfortunate, but a few do provide such an option. In Linux, use the 'mvrefind.sh' script that comes with rEFInd to have rEFInd take over the Windows boot loader. Typing 'sudo mvrefind.sh /boot/efi/EFI/refind/ /boot/efi/EFI/Microsoft/Boot' should do the trick. Use bcfg or efibootmgr to remove all the boot options from the EFI and then install rEFInd as the fallback boot loader.
The latter task can be accomplished with mvrefind.sh, as in 'sudo mvrefind.sh /boot/efi/EFI/refind /boot/efi/EFI/BOOT'. Install rEFInd to a USB flash drive, leave it plugged into the computer at all times, and reconfigure your firmware to boot from the USB flash drive rather than from your hard disk.Take your pick of which of these to try first. Note that if you try one of the solutions using mvrefind.sh and then decide to try another, you'll probably have to adjust the source location to be the destination of your first use of the command. Quick question for you, as I am FINALLY to the day where I can install linux and go for it with rEFInd. I was doing some research and I believe that because the system is setup with EFI, it does not use an MBR system for the partitions. Hence, all partitions that I create in GParted, will need to be primary partitions.
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If that is correct, you definitely have tested it and know it works, so I am not worried about it. I am just curious if you can tell me if I am correct about the primary partition only setup?Last night I was getting so p.ssed because gparted would not allow the creation of an extended partition, even when I umount 'everything'.So pumped to get rEFInd running on my machine. YeeP wrote:Quick question for you, as I am FINALLY to the day where I can install linux and go for it with rEFInd. I was doing some research and I believe that because the system is setup with EFI, it does not use an MBR system for the partitions. Hence, all partitions that I create in GParted, will need to be primary partitions. If that is correct, you definitely have tested it and know it works, so I am not worried about it.
I am just curious if you can tell me if I am correct about the primary partition only setup?You're conceptually correct. EFI-based computers almost always use GPT and not MBR on their disks. The whole concept of extended and logical partitions is an MBR hack that's not used in GPT. In a technical and pedantic sense, there are no primary partitions in GPT, either, since that concept is dependent upon the existence of extended and logical partitions. GPT supports up to 128 partitions by default, and that limit can be raised by the right software, but chances are you won't need to raise it.
IIRC, GParted (mis-)applies the label 'primary' to all GPT partitions. Selecting previously unselected package refind.(Reading database. 138689 files and directories currently installed.)Unpacking refind (from./refind0.6.8-1amd64.deb).Setting up refind (0.6.8-1)./var/lib/dpkg/info/refind.postinst: line 4: efibootmgr: command not foundInstalling rEFInd on Linux.//boot/efi doesn't seem to be on a VFAT filesystem. The ESP must bemounted at //boot or //boot/efi and it must be VFAT!
Aborting!dpkg: error processing refind (-install):subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1Errors were encountered while processing:refindInstallation failed.Edit:A little more info after spending some time on your website:Per. Code: yeep@yeep-Satellite-L855 $ sudo parted /dev/sda printsudo password for yeep:Model: ATA TOSHIBA MQ01ABD0 (scsi)Disk /dev/sda: 750GBSector size (logical/physical): 512B/512BPartition Table: gptNumber Start End Size File system Name Flags1 1049kB 473MB 472MB ntfs Ba hidden2 473MB 746MB 273MB fat32 Ba boot3 746MB 880MB 134MB ntfs Ba msftres4 880MB 324GB 323GB ntfs7 324GB 334GB 10.0GB linux-swap(v1)8 334GB 414GB 80.0GB ext49 414GB 525GB 111GB ext45 525GB 740GB 215GB ntfs6 740GB 750GB 10.0GB ntfs Ba hiddenthen. Srs5694 wrote:It's almost always possible to convert a BIOS-mode install to boot in EFI mode; however, it requires jumping through some hoops to get it to work right. FWIW, I've just released version 0.6.3 of rEFInd, which includes an install.sh script that's designed to do some of that hoop-jumping for you. In theory, it should work like this:. Install Windows in EFI mode (or start with a Windows 8 PC). Ensure that Secure Boot is disabled.
Install Mint in BIOS mode and boot into it in BIOS mode. Theme park map maker. Mount your ESP at /boot/efi.
Install rEFInd by installing the Debian package or by running the install.sh script from the binary zip file.In theory, when you reboot in EFI mode, rEFInd should come up and let you boot either OS. It does this, though, by installing itself in the Windows boot loader's position, moving the Windows boot loader down one level in the hierarchy.
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It's possible that Windows will notice this and attempt to 'fix' it. To guard against this, you can use the mvrefind.sh script that's new with rEFInd 0.6.3. Code: sudo mvrefind.sh /boot/efi/EFI/Microsoft/Boot /boot/efi/EFI/refindObviously, step 4 is my problem. Not sure what my ESP is, still trying to hunt down what it means. However, from reading through your site, is sounds like actually trying to find boot/efi is a waste of time if you are booted in bios mode.
Which is most likely why I have that error. Anyway, any tips you have would be great. I am not even going to try to boot up into windows, or take this off of CSM (BIOS) mode in the firmware, until I see what you have to say. I do not want winwods trying to fix anything.EDIT 2:According to this:These could be my options.
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The command is useless if you're currently booted in BIOS modeāfor instance, if you installed Linux in BIOS mode but want to switch to EFI booting. Thus, you may want to use another method to specify the boot loader. I know of several other possibilities:If you can reach an EFI shell prompt (which typically reads fs0:), you can navigate to the directory in which your boot loader file exists and launch it by typing its name. The EFI shell prompt is similar to a DOS or Bash prompt and takes similar commands.You can install the boot loader using the default boot loader's location (EFI/BOOT/bootx64.efi on x86-64 systems), as described earlier.You can install the boot loader under the name used by Microsoft's boot loader, EFI/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgfw.efi. This approach works only if the firmware is hard-coded to look for this file, as some seem to be. (See the next option, though.)You can use the firmware's own user interface to locate the boot loader file and either add it to the menu or launch the boot loader on a one-time basis.You can create a startup script, startup.nsh in the ESP's root directory, that does nothing but launch your desired boot loader. This script may optionally begin with a disk specification (usually fs0:) and should use backslashes as directory separators.
Thus, such a script might resemble:fs0:EFIeliloelilo.efiThis example launches ELILO as the default boot loader. This method will work only if the firmware is configured to launch an EFI shell if other boot options fail. Most EFIs don't do this, though.Definately need help. Code: yeep@yeep-Satellite-L855 $ sudo parted /dev/sda printpassword for yeep:Number Start End Size File system Name Flags1 1049kB 473MB 472MB ntfs Ba hidden2 473MB 746MB 273MB fat32 Ba bootThe 'boot' flag in parted denotes an ESP, so your ESP is /dev/sda2. Ok, one question on the editing of fstab. The required fields look like they are: I know that the first two should be:/dev/sda2 /boot/efiWhat should I put in as the type, options, dump and pass?EDIT:So, I added this line to fstab file:/dev/sda2 /boot/efi auto autoSeems to be working.I then removed an installed refind via deb package.
Everything seemed to work well. I changed the firware backover to efi mode, and booted.
Refind came to screen and showed two penguins and the windows icon. I tried one of the penguins and looked like it was trying to boot into busy box, which is a distro I tried on a live disk a while back. That boot never completed.
I rebooted and tried the other penguin, same thing, it also tried to boot into busybox. Never completed. Last, I tried the windows boot, and that worked fine. So I have to go back into the firmware and set it back to CSM mode. Then when I boot I go into Mint.Busybox must have left someting on the partition where rEFInd searches for OS installs. I suppose I need to make a manual entry for Mint?BTW: the /boot/efi exists now as you would think.
Inside of it I have/EFI/Boot/EFI/Microsoft/EFI/toshibaAnyway, any thoughts on how I can get rid of whatever rEFInd is finding for Busybox so it does not show, and add mint to the list would be great. Thanks a lot.The. JaZZyCooL wrote:Hey guys,Sorry for such a silly question but how to install rEFind on Linux or windows, I followed the instructions but unable to get that.I can't be sure, but chances are you've got a buggy firmware that's ignoring changes to the NVRAM's boot loader entries.
For better diagnosis, please boot to Linux (or a Linux emergency disc) in EFI mode and post the following:. The RESULTS.txt file that produces.
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The output of typing 'sudo efibootmgr -v' in a Terminal window.Please post these (especially the RESULTS.txt file) between code tags or as links.
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All the script does is call the tar program to extract the contents of the tarball. If that's failing it means the downloaded file is corrupted. Since it works for me and other linux users, it means that the copy on only one of the CDN servers is corrupted, which affects some users, but not all. I've tried this download from two locations, one in India and one in the US ad it's never failed for me. So I really dont know what to tell you.Do you know where the servers are located (G Sunnyvale campus?)?I seem to get the same server every time.
I know its not much help to add a 'me too' but I have always managed to successfully download calibre onto Ubuntu. For various reasons I did a fresh install of 9.10 and I thought that I was missing dependencies when I couldn't install 0.6.45. So in that sense I was glad to read that others were having problems too.I've installed 0.6.13 from synaptic.
Hopefully it'll get sorted in timeI sucessfully downloaded the bz2 package from sourceforgeI then sudo a nautilus session and unpackaged into /opt/calibredone.Note that my metadata.DB was already at the 6.44 level.Note to Kovid: The sourceforge Calibre Linux download button says 6.14.I almost bailedThe next page offered current versions. ' I sucessfully downloaded the bz2 package from sourceforgeI then sudo a nautilus session and unpackaged into /opt/calibredone.Note that my metadata.DB was already at the 6.44 level' quote theducksThought I'd have a go at this and I managed to install it but I took the long way round! (my knowledge of shell commands is terrible!)In case it might help someone else - I downloaded the.bz2 and converted it to deb file using 'alien' (install from synaptic and then in a terminal type 'sudo alien -to-deb '). I then installed the deb file successfully but the program wasn't included in the applications list Had a brainwave then and simply added it to the startup applications! So now when I start ubuntu I have the new version of calibre sitting on the desktop Im absolutely sure there is an easier way to do this but this worked for me.I hope I don't have to do this with every new version!!
Since 0.6.42 seems to work fine for my needs right now. I think I will stay with it till the next update, especially since I just tried the binary install again and it still fails the exact same way! The CLI and I have never got along very well! 8-) That's why i had an Atari 1040ST instead of a Commodore 64 or an Apple!
And didn't go to Windows till win95, now that Ubuntu is usable with GUI, i am a happy camper again! Kovid enjoy your time in India! Don't spend too much time on the computer, we will survive till you get back!
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