Running a 2009 Macbook Pro with Elementary OS (Freya).
rEFInd correctly sees both OSX and Linux 3.13.0-46-generic.
On boot, system freezes at line "EFI VGA driver issue" unless I:
Highlight Linux 3.13.0-46-generic
Hit F2 - I see "Boot with normal options, boot into single user mode, return to main menu"
Hit F2 again - I see the rEFInd Line Editor
On the rEFInd Line Editor, I leave everything default, except at the end I add " nomodeset" and hit enter. Elementary OS boots fine after.
I want to make " nomodeset" a permanent, automatic argument to this Linux kernel booting. How can I accomplish this?
Googling indicates there should be a way with either refind.conf or linux_refind.conf, but I don't have either one of these files.
Do I have to create them myself? And if so, where do I put them? /boot/ ...? somewhere else?
Where do I see / edit the current rEFInd menu options like "boot with normal.." etc?
Thank you!
Last edit: Anonymous 2015-03-15
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Anonymous
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2015-03-15
So.. kind of hacked this workaround together and it's working (and by working, I mean this "overwrites" the default boot options that were created by rEFInd, and it successfully automatically passes the nomodeset argument), but wondering if there is a way to tell rEFIind to use a grub config or something more.. stable? This will break on next kernel upgrade as I'm manually entering the UUID. Nevertheless, here's what I did:
On the Elementary (Freya) partition, in
/boot
I created a refind_linux.conf file:
/boot $ touch refind_linux.conf
Added to refind_linx.conf:
"My New Menu Option" "ro root=UUID={my unique UUID here} intird=boot\initrd.img-3.13.0-46-generic nomodeset"
Would definitely like to know the right way to do all this, though?
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I know this has been a while since you posted this. I am looking to do the same thing. For the "My New Menu Option" do you put that how it is, or the name of the menu option?
Thanks in advance
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You did it right, EXCEPT that you should omit the intird=boot\initrd.img-3.13.0-46-generic part. rEFInd can figure out which initrd file to link to which kernel, based on their version strings, so you don't need to include such a specification unless you deviate from the normal (for most distributions) naming of initrd files.
Incidentally, the mkrlconf.sh script that comes with rEFInd will create a /boot/refind_linux.conf file. It would probably omit the necessary nomodeset option, but you can always add that back. If you were to run it now, it would refuse to create a new file because one already exists, but you could rename yours beforehand or use the --force option to force it to do so.
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2015-03-20
Thank you Roderick for the answer!
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Running a 2009 Macbook Pro with Elementary OS (Freya).
rEFInd correctly sees both OSX and Linux 3.13.0-46-generic.
On boot, system freezes at line "EFI VGA driver issue" unless I:
Highlight Linux 3.13.0-46-generic
Hit F2 - I see "Boot with normal options, boot into single user mode, return to main menu"
Hit F2 again - I see the rEFInd Line Editor
On the rEFInd Line Editor, I leave everything default, except at the end I add " nomodeset" and hit enter. Elementary OS boots fine after.
I want to make " nomodeset" a permanent, automatic argument to this Linux kernel booting. How can I accomplish this?
Googling indicates there should be a way with either refind.conf or linux_refind.conf, but I don't have either one of these files.
Do I have to create them myself? And if so, where do I put them? /boot/ ...? somewhere else?
Where do I see / edit the current rEFInd menu options like "boot with normal.." etc?
Thank you!
Last edit: Anonymous 2015-03-15
So.. kind of hacked this workaround together and it's working (and by working, I mean this "overwrites" the default boot options that were created by rEFInd, and it successfully automatically passes the
nomodesetargument), but wondering if there is a way to tell rEFIind to use a grub config or something more.. stable? This will break on next kernel upgrade as I'm manually entering the UUID. Nevertheless, here's what I did:On the Elementary (Freya) partition, in
I created a
refind_linux.conffile:Added to
refind_linx.conf:"My New Menu Option" "ro root=UUID={my unique UUID here} intird=boot\initrd.img-3.13.0-46-generic nomodeset"Would definitely like to know the right way to do all this, though?
Last edit: Anonymous 2015-03-15
I know this has been a while since you posted this. I am looking to do the same thing. For the "My New Menu Option" do you put that how it is, or the name of the menu option?
Thanks in advance
You did it right, EXCEPT that you should omit the
intird=boot\initrd.img-3.13.0-46-genericpart. rEFInd can figure out which initrd file to link to which kernel, based on their version strings, so you don't need to include such a specification unless you deviate from the normal (for most distributions) naming of initrd files.Incidentally, the
mkrlconf.shscript that comes with rEFInd will create a/boot/refind_linux.conffile. It would probably omit the necessarynomodesetoption, but you can always add that back. If you were to run it now, it would refuse to create a new file because one already exists, but you could rename yours beforehand or use the--forceoption to force it to do so.Thank you Roderick for the answer!