Installation issues - small hint

[biuro74]

Hi,

After some hardware changes I was in need to reinstall rEFInd again (and again, twice: for each volume separately).
I was doing this using manual installation under Fedora 22 Linux, following step-by-step instruction. I've finished all steps with some errors (GUID partition entry array CRC check failed), but with final message rEFInid has been installed.
It appeared in BIOS as "rEFInd" (please take a note it was short name) bootloader, but booting failed - and standard Windows bootmenu appeared.

I've done installation twice, as I wrote, separately for each volume (hard drive and SSDs RAID-0 array), effect was the same each time.

After that, I've launched automatic install script and it installed rEFInd by default @ my hard drive (please, can you allow multiple volumes users to define volume/drive to install ?). After reboot it turned out my previous HDD rEFInd bootloader changed its name in BIOS to "rEFInd Bootloader" (please take a note the name has been changed from short form), but started to work :)

So if anybody occurs any issues with non working rEFInd installation, do it twice: manually and automatically, maybe it helps. BTW, it proves there is small difference between manual installation instruction and automatic script, it might be ammended to cause the same effect.

P.S. Is it possible to get full config information under double Ins pressing in next revision, please - regarding to full paths which are used by particular menu entry (stanza) for booting ? It would be HELPFUL for those who can't personalize stanzas with proper paths (like me, having multivolume multiboot) - as not all OSes do start and there's a need to boot from rEFInd CD which detects all entries automatically (I mean OSes installed on another volumes). And I'd like to know all the parameters - which might be uncovered by double Ins pressing. So far it is shown (double Ins) in manual stanzas, but I'd like to unhide how automatic rEFInd CD bootloader treats those paths.

Thanks

[Roderick W. Smith]

You should not normally need to install rEFInd more than once to a single computer. When the refind-install script runs under Linux, it installs to whatever ESP is mounted at /boot or /boot/efi; only if no FAT partition is mounted there does rEFInd go looking for an ESP. Thus, you can control the ESP to which it installs simply by mounting the desired partition at /boot or /boot/efi.

From your description, I suspect that you made a mistake during your installation. That's easy to do -- a very small typo in the efibootmgr command, or a mistake in specifying the rEFInd installation path, will result in exactly the problem you describe.