So, after having spent some time browsing the web in search of various solutions, I have managed to save the configuration so that I don’t have to indicate the boot settings every time I launch the laptop.
If there’s anyone else in the same situation as I am, i.e. when there is rEFInd installed on the MacOS partition and it is used as a main bootloader, and you want to get rid of all the boot messages for EOS (I guess any Linux distro will work here), you may set up and save the configuration as follows:
- as your rEFInd is installed on MacOS, you don’t have the necessary config file named “refind_linux.conf” to save your boot parameters to; to get this file, download the mkrlconf.sh file from rEFInd’s github page: https://github.com/JackieXie168/rEFInd/blob/master/mkrlconf.sh
- to run this file you need to give it executable rights: chmod +x /path/to/your/script.sh, and then run it with just /path/to/your/script.sh
- once the script is finished, it will create the refind_linux.conf file which, for me, is stored in /boot/refind_linux.conf
- you need to edit this conf file with your boot parameters, e.g. quiet splash to suppress the boot messages: sudo nano /boot/refind_linux.conf - this will take you to the conf file through the terminal, where you will simply add [quiet splash] at the end of the 1st line which is responsible for booting with standard options
That should be it
Now, at least in my case, I get a kind of ugly graphical glitch at the system boot when I have this option enabled, which is also kind of visually unappealing, but that’s another problem I guess, so I will keep investigating it on my own. I have already managed to mitigate it by creating a separate refind stanza for EOS, but it’s still not 100% nice.