Arthur Roberts

I recently ran into this same situation with rEFInd stalling while scanning for bootloaders. It occurred on two different brand-new HP desktop systems given to me by my IT department. I found a way around the issue by updating my boot environment to first load the EFI shell, which runs the startup.nsh script by default. In this script, it lists all drivers loaded by the EFI firmware, finds the handle for the one named "Hp Ntfs File System Driver", unloads it, and then continues on to rEFInd. I supplemented...