What is the correct designation for "volume" in a manual OSX boot-entry?

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What is the correct designation for "volume" in a manual OSX boot-entry?

Forum: General Discussion

Created: 2018-05-08

Updated: 2018-05-11

Skyy - 2018-05-08

I use rEFInd on my Macbook to dualboot OSX and Windows 10 and want to switch completely to manual enties. Setting up the Windows entry was no problem at all but OSX is giving me trouble.

The actual bootfile is \System\Library\CoreServices\Boot.efi but I can't figure out what to enter in the Volume line. My Macbook's HDD volume-name is called "Airbook SSD" inside OSX but entering this in rEFInd's config results it in not finding the bootfile.

If I try to hide the OSX boot-entry that is found by scanning it actually says the volume name is Recovery HD but even entering that as the Volume in the manual entry causes a boot-failure. Is there anything else I can enter as a volume designation?

Thanks for help in advance!

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Roderick W. Smith - 2018-05-09

Try using the partition's name, as revealed by gdisk or some other disk utilities.

That said, rEFInd is designed to auto-detect macOS boot loaders, so using a manual boot stanza to boot macOS is likely to be more trouble than it's worth.

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Skyy - 2018-05-11

Alright thanks I'll probably leave it at that then, I thought I could save the one second of scan-time and hide the new "Scanning..." dialog that way but honestly it doesn't bother me too much.

And at this point I want to say thank you for the great work with rEFInd, it's really a great piece of software.

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