plain vector
hey all, I'm encountering a problem where booting arch using refind always drops me into the energy shell. when I boot using grub, it works normally. when I boot with refind but use the "minimal" boot option, it also works. I believe my boot arguments are somehow broken. anyone can help me set them properly?
these are my boot options. as you can see, the regular one (first) is configured inproperly. I used the refind-install script when in arch-chroot to install refind.
wide patrol
uh
plain vector
okay the fix was stupid easy. I booted properly with grub, and then removed the existing refind install, then ran the installation script again.
wide patrol
oh okay
mighty jungle
@plain vector it is extremely stupid but basically refind-install assumes the boot arguments of your running system is already correct
Which when you’re chrooting from archiso it very much isn’t
There’s a warning on ArchWiki on this topic
plain vector
There’s a warning on ArchWiki on this topic
oh. that pretty much explains everything. I don't know how I missed that warning. on a side note, thank you for helping me install mint on my old laptop 3/4 years ago.
mighty jungle
oh. that pretty much explains everything. I don't know how I missed that warning...
Honestly if you don't do much and don't multiboot
It's trivially easy on Arch to setup UKIs these days
Which skips the bootloader entirely and load your kernel (with a stub) directly
plain vector
I do dualboot