Hello,
I'm using Refind since a long time on my MBP-2012, MBA-2012 and Mini-2013 and I'm very pleased with this cutomizable software. All my macs are on a dual boot Sierra + W10Pro.
Lately I wanted to harden the security of my Macs "in case of", so I activated bios password, filevault, bitlocker, removed external + optical devices scans in Refind to avoid the computer being booted by a usb/cd linux distro or anything else. But Refind still scans for contents on SDCard slot.
On my macs revisions, the sdcard slot is not recognized as an USB device but as a block device, is there a way to forbid/exception Refind to do a scan and show the SDCard in the boot menu selection ?
Thanks a lots and best regards.
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The only option that occurs to me is to completely disable auto-scanning and instead rely exclusively on manual boot stanzas. For a dual-boot of macOS and (EFI-mode) Windows 10, this shouldn't be too limiting, but the boot stanzas can be a bit of a pain to set up. See this section of the rEFInd documentation for details. Note, however, that it is not currently possible to configure rEFInd to boot a BIOS-mode OS via a manual boot stanza. Thus, if you're booting Windows in BIOS mode, this won't work -- at least, not without converting it to boot in EFI mode, which is a bit of a challenge.
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Thanks for you answer Roderick, i'll dig into the documentation for manual boot stanzas. As far as I remember my w10 partitions are using the EFI mode.
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Hello,
I'm using Refind since a long time on my MBP-2012, MBA-2012 and Mini-2013 and I'm very pleased with this cutomizable software. All my macs are on a dual boot Sierra + W10Pro.
Lately I wanted to harden the security of my Macs "in case of", so I activated bios password, filevault, bitlocker, removed external + optical devices scans in Refind to avoid the computer being booted by a usb/cd linux distro or anything else. But Refind still scans for contents on SDCard slot.
On my macs revisions, the sdcard slot is not recognized as an USB device but as a block device, is there a way to forbid/exception Refind to do a scan and show the SDCard in the boot menu selection ?
Thanks a lots and best regards.
The only option that occurs to me is to completely disable auto-scanning and instead rely exclusively on manual boot stanzas. For a dual-boot of macOS and (EFI-mode) Windows 10, this shouldn't be too limiting, but the boot stanzas can be a bit of a pain to set up. See this section of the rEFInd documentation for details. Note, however, that it is not currently possible to configure rEFInd to boot a BIOS-mode OS via a manual boot stanza. Thus, if you're booting Windows in BIOS mode, this won't work -- at least, not without converting it to boot in EFI mode, which is a bit of a challenge.
Thanks for you answer Roderick, i'll dig into the documentation for manual boot stanzas. As far as I remember my w10 partitions are using the EFI mode.