After a long battle with a new laptop and Slackware (which is not EFI-aware), I found rEFInd and got it to work. THANK YOU guys, it's awesome. However, after removing (by renaming) two entries, I've still got one extra, which doesn't even work. While the other options show me a path, this one only shows
"Boot Microsoft EFI boot from"
just like that, nothing after "from". So I don't understand what rEFInd thinks it's finding. The image for this entry is the windows logo, just like the one that works for Windows 7. Can you help me?
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O wait. I should add that selecting this entry, I'm sent back to the rEFInd menu. Is it possible that rEFInd finds itself anyway? I had to put it to EFI/microsoft/boot and rename it as bootmgfw.efi to get it to boot at all.. (Gotta love how Sony handles EFI)
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I've just checked and found a bug on this score. I've fixed it locally, but unfortunately, the code is currently in no fit state for release. (I'm trying to implement support for the SUSE/Fedora MOK Secure Boot extensions, but it's proving quite difficult to get a Linux kernel with EFI stub support to launch in this way.)
As a workaround in the meantime, I recommend you try adding EFI/Microsoft/boot to the dont_scan_dirs entry in refind.conf. This entry is commented out and empty by default, so you'll need to uncomment and change it or create a new entry of that name.
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After a long battle with a new laptop and Slackware (which is not EFI-aware), I found rEFInd and got it to work. THANK YOU guys, it's awesome. However, after removing (by renaming) two entries, I've still got one extra, which doesn't even work. While the other options show me a path, this one only shows
"Boot Microsoft EFI boot from"
just like that, nothing after "from". So I don't understand what rEFInd thinks it's finding. The image for this entry is the windows logo, just like the one that works for Windows 7. Can you help me?
O wait. I should add that selecting this entry, I'm sent back to the rEFInd menu. Is it possible that rEFInd finds itself anyway? I had to put it to EFI/microsoft/boot and rename it as bootmgfw.efi to get it to boot at all.. (Gotta love how Sony handles EFI)
I've just checked and found a bug on this score. I've fixed it locally, but unfortunately, the code is currently in no fit state for release. (I'm trying to implement support for the SUSE/Fedora MOK Secure Boot extensions, but it's proving quite difficult to get a Linux kernel with EFI stub support to launch in this way.)
As a workaround in the meantime, I recommend you try adding
EFI/Microsoft/bootto thedont_scan_dirsentry inrefind.conf. This entry is commented out and empty by default, so you'll need to uncomment and change it or create a new entry of that name.Thank you, both for fixing the bug and giving good advice, it works :o). It's been a while since I was this happy about some software!