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    From Doug Laidlaw@2:250/1 to All on Tue Dec 8 07:57:22 2020
    Before I reinstalled Mga 8, I temporarily activated the rEFInd boot
    manager. That gave me a text menu on a blue background, with
    single-line spacing. Now, I can't get rid of the darned thing!
    Installing Mageia's Grub2 gives me a proper menu, but the same rEFInd
    format persists. I suppose that this is coming from the master folder maintained by Windoze 10, but I am reluctant to delete anything there.
    Windoze interferes so much that nowadays, I always shut it down
    completely, instead of rebooting. Could I delete only the Mageia
    subdirectory there?

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  • From David W. Hodgins@2:250/1 to All on Tue Dec 8 23:49:02 2020
    On Tue, 08 Dec 2020 02:57:22 -0500, Doug Laidlaw <laidlaws@hotkey.net.au> wrote:

    Before I reinstalled Mga 8, I temporarily activated the rEFInd boot
    manager. That gave me a text menu on a blue background, with
    single-line spacing. Now, I can't get rid of the darned thing!
    Installing Mageia's Grub2 gives me a proper menu, but the same rEFInd
    format persists. I suppose that this is coming from the master folder maintained by Windoze 10, but I am reluctant to delete anything there. Windoze interferes so much that nowadays, I always shut it down
    completely, instead of rebooting. Could I delete only the Mageia subdirectory there?

    In a uefi firmware system, the boot loader is stored in nvram, not on disk like on
    a bios firmware system where it uses the master boot record.

    Use mcc, Boot, Set up boot system to change it from using refind to grub2.

    Regards, Dave Hodgins

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