Now that you have a backup copy and determined that it is in. the files copied will have root as owner, to be able to access them you will need to change their ownership with sudo chown username -R /home/username/tmp/ubuntu/
password for cd Search for where grub is:Ī. Ubuntu has the su account locked so you would enter as sudo sudo -s To access the EFI boot section we need to access as superuserī. Like rEFIt, rEFInd can auto-detect your installed EFI boot loaders and it presents a pretty GUI menu of boot options. dev/sda2 303104 113684 189420 38% /boot/efi rEFInd is a fork of the rEFIt boot manager. Under macOS or windows the ESP is not mounted by default, so you must mount it yourself to access it.more info here Under Linux, the ESP is usually mounted at /boot/efi, although sometimes at /boot, or /efi. First we need to know where the ESP is mounted.:~$ sudo efibootmgr -bootnum 0000 -inactive The rEFInd boot screen did show up after the reboot. :~$ sudo efibootmgr -bootorder 0003,0000,0004,0005 Did anyone try installing rEFInd Boot Manager while on Mojave I just tried after years of not using a boot manager and although the installation was successful through terminal and an 'EFI' volume showed up on my Desktop, I ran into issues when I rebooted. Use efibootmgr to manage the boot options.rEFInd is one of the most popular multi-boot managers on the market.
Perhaps if the bootloader is just bothering you could use: Recommended Alternatives rEFInd is a boot manager for UEFI computer that will allow you to choose between Windows, Linux and Mac OS X, and other operating systems when you boot your computer, it can auto-detect your installed operating systems and presents a pretty GUI menu these operating systems. This might be a good place to mention the gpt command has to be run while either booted to an external recover partition or while booted to internet recovery.Ĭould I simply remove the EFI partition or would that corrupt my Mac? Do not remove the EFI partition! It is not used to boot OS X, but it is used by OS X for other things.Its not like the space ocupied in the EFI partition by grub is huge, in my case in /boot/efi/EFI/ubuntu/ occupies 4.4 MB.
I suggested you just install it again to its own partition.
How would I go and reinstall it using different options if I cannot remove it? The author of the software never said rEFInd could not be removed. Note: Almost everyone installs rEFInd to the OS X boot partition. I should of had you run the commands bless -info and bless -info -getBoot. install.sh file and undo whatever it did. How do I uninstall rEFInd 0.8-3.7 using OS X 10.10.3? Read the. nf file changed such that the 'selectioncount' option is set to 3 instead of the default 5. In fact, there is nothing useful in the EFI partition. Neither OS X, Windows, Fedora nor rEFInd use the EFI partition to boot the computer. If I would have used the gpt command, I could have created a smaller partition. When I setup this computer, I used the Disk Utility application to create the rEFInd partition. Note, the rEFInd partition is ~ 1 GB in size.
The command diskutil list produces: /dev/disk0ģ: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk0s3Ĥ: Microsoft Basic Data Coelacanth 98.9 GB disk0s4ĥ: Apple_HFS Linux HFS+ ESP 209.7 MB disk0s5Ħ: 0FC63DAF-8483-4772-8E79-3D69D8477DE4 524.3 MB disk0s6 I also can select the boot partition under Windows by using BootCamp and by holding the Option key down at startup. This computer has OS X, Windows, Fedora and rEFInd installed. I just go to the Startup window in System Preferences select my boot partition. Of course both are unnecessary, because I can turn rEFInd on and off at will. If I want to remove rEFInd, I can simply erase or remove the partition.
install.sh installed went to this partition. This prevents the problems you are encountering. Personally, I installed rEFInd on my computer to its own partition. The answer, given below, applies to Yosemite (OS X 10.10) and possibly earlier versions of OS X. My answer, to an unrelated question, outlines this new preferred method to start the rEFInd Boot Manager and Linux operating systems. The new preferred method is to install rEFInd into the an EFI partition. Note: El Capitan (OS X 10.11) prevents users from selecting rEFInd and common Linux distributions from the Startup Disk pane.