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Partition/format the rest ext4 with a label of "casper-rw". Use gparted to set a GPT table on the stick, make a 2gb partition and format it fat32, label it "boot", set the boot flag (it will be EFI)
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Now make a swap and primary partition and install mint to primary partition from the stick. If it complains about not running efibootmgr properly you probably need to install it. It will find and mount your new ESP/EFI parition. Unpack that and run the install script from inside the unarchived refind directory. There are three methods (deb package, script or manual) I suggest downloading the latest bin.zip archive. Mark it bootable (it will be marked EFI bootable since it is a GPT drive now) Now make partition for ESP, 256mb or more, formatted Fat32, label it ESP. Make a new GPT partition table on what will be your primary drive (scrubs the drive!)ī. If you put anything there before you'll have to look in the /media folder to find it.Ī. When it boots the first time it will move most of OS files to the casper-rw partition and mount that as the filesystem. It's best to just to turn off any legacy booting option(s) so you are sure. You should see your USB listed there usually by manufacturer name. I just loaded sarah on a new machine so it continues to work fine.Ĭreate a persistent UEFI USB stick with some flavor of linux (say sarah) (see notes below)īoot that stick as UEFI which involves entering your cmos settings and being sure your settings will boot UEFI. for refind, final state should be that:īeen there banged by head came up with a procedure that works. The ESP is normally mounted at /boot/efi, so this is pretty simple, only thing is that you need root.
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The other possible manual install is real manual : copy the files to the good location on the EFI system partition (ESP). The simplest manual install is to use the script refind-install for refind, or sudo grub-install /dev/sda for grub but after install the corresponding boot manager will be default, so you have to correct that with efibootmgr or the boot order in the firmware interface. The second simplest solution is that the secondary one should be installed manually, so that it doesnt get updated. However, if for some reason you want to keep both refind and grub, the simplest solution is to discard updates for the secondary one. The simplest solution is to only use one boot manager. The refind maintainer as a page on this issue. if you chose refind as your default boot manager, when grub is updated you will get a boot coup. Indeed when refind or grub is updated, it will reput itself as the default bootloader.
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Warning: if you have both grub and refind installed via the software manager (or apt or synaptic, whatever, it amounts to the same) then you will run into troubles each time one is updated. Then open the software manager, search for refind and click on install. Paste ppa:rodsmith/refind, close then click on "reload the cache". Update Manager > Edition > Software sources > PPAs > Add a PPA Or if you dont like the terminal and prefer GUI : Code: Select all $ sudo apt-add-repository ppa:rodsmith/refind