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Change the name of the OS entry

2017-10-14
2017-10-14
  • Joseph Mora

    Joseph Mora - 2017-10-14

    Hi!

    I'm wondering if there is a way to change the name of the entry in my disk.
    I've two macOs entries:

    1.- Boot macOs from macOs
    2.- Boot macOs

    only the 1 works, and I would like to be able to delete one and change the name. The desired result is to boot with number 2 and remove number 1. Also desirable to change the name of macOs to Sierra or "SSD Sierra" for example.

     
  • Roderick W. Smith

    You can remove redundant, non-functional, or otherwise undesired entries in several ways, as described in the documentation:

    http://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/configfile.html#hiding

    Renaming entries is trickier. You have some control in the form of the name of the boot volume, which you can edit in most OSes. (rEFInd uses a filesystem label or, if that's not present, the GPT partition label. If neither is found, rEFInd uses a description, like "200 GiB ext4 volume.")

    If you don't want to change the volume label or if you want to do more than this, your only option is to create a manual boot stanza:

    http://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/configfile.html#stanzas

    This is both a pain and tricky; a small error in the specification (like a typo) can cause the entry to fail to work, typically with a "file not found" error. IMHO, it's not worth the bother just to change the name shown in the menu; but of course you might disagree.

     

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