refind

boot manager for EFI-based computers
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A graphical boot manager for EFI- and UEFI-based computers, such as all Intel-based Macs and recent (most 2011 and later) PCs. rEFInd presents a boot menu showing all the EFI boot loaders on the EFI-accessible partitions, and optionally BIOS-bootable partitions on Macs and BIOS boot entries on UEFI PCs with CSMs. EFI-compatible OSes, including Linux, provide boot loaders that rEFInd can detect and launch. rEFInd can launch Linux EFI boot loaders such as ELILO, GRUB Legacy, GRUB 2, and 3.3.0 and later kernels with EFI stub support. EFI filesystem drivers for ext2/3/4fs, ReiserFS, Btrfs, NTFS, HFS+, and ISO-9660 enable rEFInd to read boot loaders from these filesystems, too. rEFInd's ability to detect boot loaders at runtime makes it very easy to use, particularly when paired with Linux kernels that provide EFI stub support.
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elibroftw 9 months ago

Doesn't work on my machine. "Secure Boot violation. Invalid signature." I tried following manuals but no clue where to get the shim downloads for Linux MInt. I have secure boot enabled and dual boot with windows 11.

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richardelima1 3 years ago

Only one with goog GUI

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nofu 3 years ago

rEFInd is indispensible to set up your Mac to dual boot Linux Mint and MacOS and probably also awesome to select from multiple EFI boot loaders on your Linux box. I wanted to install Linux Mint on an old Macmini (mid-2010) so that if my Linux box failed for some reason and I couldn't get it running, I would have another computer running Linux Mint that I know and love that I could use until I could get my Linux box up and running again. While the Mac provides bootcamp to set up your Mac to dual boot Windows and MacOS, it provides no support to set it up to dual boot Linux and MacOS. To do this, the rEFInd boot manager (which selects a boot loader for each OS) is wonderful. The website for rEFInd has a lot of information and I found that rEFInd was meticulously written and covers the many versions of MacOS. You will probably need to disable MacOS SIP to successfully run rEFInd, and then re-enable it on the Mac. The zip archive that you download from the rEFInd website to your Mac also contains a very useful utility: refind-mkdefault which makes rEFInd the default boot manager and is a lot easier to use than efibootmgr.