I switched from Windows to EndeavourOS since a month or two now. Reading and exploring wikis here and on Arch slowly. Please correct me if I state some terminologies incorrectly.
I was using systemd-boot boot manager (the one that creates fallback initramfs?).
I installed rEFInd today, and it shows me two entries(auto-generated) named:
- Boot systemd-bootx64.efi from 499 MiB FAT volume
- UEFI OS
Both open the systemd-boot screen where I can pick which kernel to boot.
The behavior I expected was to see eos logo or eos entries “auto-detected” at least.
Why is this happening? Is it safe to just bootctl remove and let rEFInd work alone?
I read a post while writing this post here: Switiching to rEFInd from systemd-boot (w/ brtfs). I do not have encrypted volumes, but I do have btrfs. Since I don’t know what to do, I will just post this here.
Here is some information about my system:
Partition Table:
PS: Ignore the first leftover partition.
parted /dev/nvme0n1 print
Model: SAMSUNG MZVLQ512HALU-00000 (nvme)
Disk /dev/nvme0n1: 512GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags:
Number Start End Size File system Name Flags
1 1049kB 106MB 105MB fat32 msftdata
6 106MB 438GB 438GB btrfs
7 438GB 502GB 64.3GB btrfs Basic data partition
9 502GB 503GB 524MB fat32 EFI system partition boot, esp
8 503GB 512GB 8594MB linux-swap(v1) swap
inxi -FAX --no-host: https://0x0.st/HPC3.txt
My ESP partition contents:
tree --sort name --filelimit 70 /efi
/efi
├── c8a8e4fe23234c91a83edfedb4704bb5
│ ├── 6.2.13-arch1-1
│ │ ├── initrd
│ │ ├── initrd-fallback
│ │ └── linux
│ └── 6.3.1-x64v3-xanmod1
│ ├── initrd
│ ├── initrd-fallback
│ └── linux
├── EFI
│ ├── BOOT
│ │ └── BOOTX64.EFI
│ ├── Linux
│ ├── refind
│ │ ├── BOOT.CSV
│ │ ├── drivers_x64
│ │ │ └── btrfs_x64.efi
│ │ ├── icons [77 entries exceeds filelimit, not opening dir]
│ │ ├── icons-backup [76 entries exceeds filelimit, not opening dir]
│ │ ├── keys
│ │ ├── refind.conf
│ │ ├── refind_x64.efi
│ │ └── vars
│ │ └── PreviousBoot
│ ├── systemd
│ │ └── systemd-bootx64.efi
│ └── tools
└── loader
├── entries
│ ├── c8a8e4fe23234c91a83edfedb4704bb5-6.2.13-arch1-1.conf
│ ├── c8a8e4fe23234c91a83edfedb4704bb5-6.2.13-arch1-1-fallback.conf
│ ├── c8a8e4fe23234c91a83edfedb4704bb5-6.3.1-x64v3-xanmod1.conf
│ └── c8a8e4fe23234c91a83edfedb4704bb5-6.3.1-x64v3-xanmod1-fallback.conf
├── entries.srel
├── loader.conf
└── random-seed
17 directories, 20 files
efibootmgr:
efibootmgr -uv
BootCurrent: 0000
Timeout: 1 seconds
BootOrder: 0000,0002
Boot0000* rEFInd Boot Manager HD(9,GPT,6ecea89a-8b48-0f4b-aff4-d5d0e657178c,0x3a7e9800,0xfa000)/File(\EFI\REFIND\REFIND_X64.EFI)
dp: 04 01 2a 00 09 00 00 00 00 98 7e 3a 00 00 00 00 00 a0 0f 00 00 00 00 00 9a a8 ce 6e 48 8b 4b 0f af f4d5 d0 e6 57 17 8c 02 02 / 04 04 3a 00 5c 00 45 00 46 00 49 00 5c 00 52 00 45 00 46 00 49 00 4e 00 44 00 5c 00 52 00 45 00 46 00 49 00 4e 00 44 00 5f 00 58 00 36 00 34 00 2e 00 45 00 46 00 49 00 00 00 / 7f ff 04 00
Boot0002* UEFI OS HD(9,GPT,6ecea89a-8b48-0f4b-aff4-d5d0e657178c,0x3a7e9800,0xfa000)/File(\EFI\BOOT\BOOTX64.EFI)
dp: 04 01 2a 00 09 00 00 00 00 98 7e 3a 00 00 00 00 00 a0 0f 00 00 00 00 00 9a a8 ce 6e 48 8b 4b 0f af f4d5 d0 e6 57 17 8c 02 02 / 04 04 30 00 5c 00 45 00 46 00 49 00 5c 00 42 00 4f 00 4f 00 54 00 5c 00 42 00 4f 00 4f 00 54 00 58 00 36 00 34 00 2e 00 45 00 46 00 49 00 00 00 / 7f ff 04 00
data: 00 00 42 4f
bootctl list: https://0x0.st/HPC0.txt