mu$un - 2017-11-28

Thank you for a great program.

Installed rEFInd on a MBP to get a nice dual boot with Ubuntu.
Read also the doc, at least where it was relevant to what I plan on doing (I think).

AFAIU, rEFInd does - by default

  • scan all FSs to find boot loaders, then display the corresponding icons in the order it found them
  • hiding an icon is possible but the entry will be stored in NVRAM (...)
  • refind.conf is "samples" (with disabled entries) only, but one can modify the file and add "boot stanzas"

Questions:

1) hidden.conf

Would it be possible instead of storing the list of hidden icons in nvram, to store the list in a file, e.g. on my Linux that'd be for instance /boot/efi/EFI/refind/hidden.conf

Then, after rEFInd scans FSes, it would read that file and not show the entries in hidden.conf.

2) boot-loaders.conf

Would it be possible to have a rEFInd command/small icon to write the result of the "FS boot-loaders scan" in the form of boot stanzas in a file, say /boot/efi/EFI/refind/boot-loaders.conf, that would make the creation of a refind.conf having some entries disabled, in a chosen order... much (much) easier. [Currently one has to make the scanning manually, then create, manually, the boot-stanzas]

(The EFI partition on my MBP has 170 MB free, that's quite some unused space)

Thank you.

 

Last edit: mu$un 2017-12-07