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Windows 10 fails to finish booting from rEFInd

2016-11-11
2016-11-11
  • higgs boson

    higgs boson - 2016-11-11

    Current setup:

    2 drives, 1 Windows 10, 1 Arch Linux
    rEFInd installed to Windows drive ESP (/EFI/Boot/bootx64.efi)

    Arch boots no problem, but I'm having issues with Windows:

    If I boot from the Windows boot loader directly (setting it as primary in my motherboard settings), Windows boots flawlessly.

    If I boot Windows from rEFInd, I get the Windows loading screen (Windows logo + spinning dots) but where it would normally bring up the login screen, my monitors turn off and the lights on my mouse turn off, and I have to hard-reset my machine because nothing is responsive.

    I'm using the auto-detect for rEFInd; is there anything special I need to do to make Windows 10 boot properly from rEFInd?

    This is a fresh install of Windows btw, and it's the 2nd install I've done (I thought I messed up configuration of the ESP the first time so I reinstalled)

    Thanks!

     
  • higgs boson

    higgs boson - 2016-11-11
    Might be worth pointing out: using systemd-boot (gummiboot) it boots to Windows fine. Making me think more and more that it's probably a rEFInd issue. Would prefer to use rEFInd if possible, mostly because it looks a million times nicer than systemd-boot :)
    
     

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