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Spurious entry in refind menu impossible to remove and no shell

2014-09-11
2014-10-14
  • Manuel Yguel

    Manuel Yguel - 2014-09-11

    Hi,
    I installed refit on a new macbook air, then ubuntu 14.04 in dual-boot. Everything so far is fine except 2 things:
    1 - I have a spurious entry in the refind menu saying:
    BOOT LINUX FROM FAT VOLUME
    when trying to boot nothing happens. When cliking 2 times F2 I do not have any entry.
    I had 3 entries from efibootmgr -v called
    Boot0000 -> macOS
    Boot0080 -> ubuntu
    BootFFFF -> ?
    So i removed the last one using efibootmgr -b FFFF -B
    Since there is only macOs and ubuntu entries in efibootmgr -v but still 3 entries in the refind boot menu.
    I also reinstalled refind from mac OS X with the install.sh script but still 3 entries remain.
    I am stuck there, no idea what to do. I do not even know where the 3thrd entry comes from (since I forgot to take in note what the first call to efibootmgr -v returned).

    2 - In the refind boot menu I do not have any shell not partition tool available.

    Thanks in advance for any help on the matters.

    M. Yguel

     
  • Manuel Yguel

    Manuel Yguel - 2014-09-11

    Side note, the badge in the third entry of the refind boot menu is a "hard drive" and the icone is Tux.

     
  • InfernoZeus

    InfernoZeus - 2014-10-06

    FWIW, I'm seeing identical behaviour.

     
  • Roderick W. Smith

    Chances are those are BIOS/CSM/legacy boot entries. If you're not booting any other OS (such as Windows) in BIOS/CSM/legacy mode, you should be able to remove those entries by uncommenting and adjusting your scanfor line in refind.conf to omit the hdbios option. If you rely on BIOS/CSM/legacy-mode booting of any OS, you can remove the unwanted entries by careful use of the dont_scan_volumes option as described here (search for dont_scan_volumes to find its entry in the table).

     

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