refind newer than 0.10.9 only shows logo.

[Pierluigi]

Hello all,
I have just got a new laptop ( ( HP Elitebook 655 G10 ) and as usual I've installed refing ( latest ), repartitioned my hard drive to shrink the windows partition, recreated all other partitions and extracted the dump for my linux installation.
At boot I got an empty refind screen without any choice available.
I've tried everything I've read around, removing unused drivers and son on, and also the Microsoft directory from the ESP thinkging it could lead to problems due to secureboot stuff, with no joy.
I've then tried to install an older version ( 0.13.3 ) which is actually working on my other PC, but also this show a white screen with only the refind logo.
Same happens when trying to boot from an USB "pen" with 0.13.3
I've the downloaded the 0.10.9 ( as find in older threads ) and burned on the USB pen, and with this I've been able to boot to linux ( until it crashed as maybe I'm missing some configuration in kernel ) with a panic unable to find root, but more impressively it boots in windows without problems at all.
I have attached here a log from the failed refind boot, after have added a "loglevel=4" in the not working refind installation but it does not says too much to me.
Do you know by chance how I can resolve this issue ?

Thanks in advance
Pigi

[dakanji]

Looks like a memory conflict caused it to hang.

Can you try temporarily replacing the rEFInd efi with one from RefindPlus to see if it does the same? See: https://github.com/RefindPlusRepo/RefindPlus/releases

Just change the rEFInd file extension to .efix, give the RefindPlus file the same name as rEFInd had and reboot as normal.

Use the RefindPlus DBG file (for debugging) to generate a log file. The REL file (for normal use) does not produce logs.

You can share the log here. Thanks.

[Pierluigi]

Would it be fine to do the test by using an USB pen ? I would not block my work PC.
Also: do I need to use config.conf or it would alse read the refind.conf I already have ?

Thanks

[Pierluigi]

Hello, also with refindPlus same problem.
Here the log.

[dakanji]

Saw the issue you raised on GitHub.
Will get back there presently.

[Pierluigi]

Hello
I have tried today with 0.14.2 but the problem is the same. I have finished the tests as per github issue last year and found that what makes it works ( refind+ ) is the "disable_rescan_dxe" parameter, which unfortunally is not present on refind "normal". Any chance there would be a backport for it ?
I will be happy to continue using refind+, but it would be interessing to have also refind to work fine on new Hp elitebook .
@dakanji if interessend I'm talking about issue #185 that is closed and I cannot comment any more.