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  • Bootsplash with rEFInd

    From Doug Laidlaw@2:250/1 to All on Sun Nov 13 09:54:11 2022
    When booting rEFInd, the default method is to show a graphical history, although eventually, X is running.

    Is there a way to make rEFInd hide this history and imitate a full
    graphical startup? The only method I have found was in an old, archived source which was no longer available. (Sour grapes: it may no longer
    work, anyway.)

    Doug.

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  • From David W. Hodgins@2:250/1 to All on Sun Nov 13 14:51:15 2022
    On Sun, 13 Nov 2022 04:54:11 -0500, Doug Laidlaw <laidlaws@hotkey.net.au> wrote:

    When booting rEFInd, the default method is to show a graphical history, although eventually, X is running.

    Is there a way to make rEFInd hide this history and imitate a full
    graphical startup? The only method I have found was in an old, archived source which was no longer available. (Sour grapes: it may no longer
    work, anyway.)

    If by history, you mean the last selected entry becomes the default, I think that can be overridden by specifying the default_selection in /boot/efi/EFI/refind/refind.conf

    Regards, Dave Hodgins

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  • From Doug Laidlaw@2:250/1 to All on Sun Nov 13 21:10:05 2022
    On 14/11/22 01:51, David W. Hodgins wrote:

    If by history, you mean the last selected entry becomes the default, I
    think
    that can be overridden by specifying the default_selection in /boot/efi/EFI/refind/refind.conf

    Regards, Dave Hodgins

    I thought that it should be there; I must have looked straight past it.
    By history, I was referring to the entries during bootup, normally
    hidden by the bootsplash.

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  • From Doug Laidlaw@2:250/1 to All on Mon Nov 14 16:47:53 2022
    On 14/11/22 08:10, Doug Laidlaw wrote:
    On 14/11/22 01:51, David W. Hodgins wrote:

    If by history, you mean the last selected entry becomes the default, I
    think
    that can be overridden by specifying the default_selection in
    /boot/efi/EFI/refind/refind.conf

    Regards, Dave Hodgins

    I thought that it should be there; I must have looked straight past it.
    By history, I was referring to the entries during bootup, normally
    hidden by the bootsplash.
    I am getting nowhere with this. I was treating rEFInd as another bootloader, like Grub2, but it seems that it isn't. rEFInd can call
    grub2, and then I see the standard Mageia grub2 list to choose from. In efibootmgr, rEFInd is listed as a choice, just as a distro is listed.

    Just to state again what I am enquiring about:

    When I boot Mageia from its icon in rEFInd, i get a text-mode bootup,
    such as I would see when booting into rescue mode. Then X starts, and
    the desktop is loaded.

    When I boot Mageia with Grub2, I see only a graphical screen (probably
    not X; the equivalent of DOS in a Windows setup, is this what
    "framebuffer" means?) until X starts, and it hides all the text-mode
    stuff. rEFInd seems not to be concerned with any distro settings, such
    as those in /etc/default/grub, and I can't make the Mageia startup
    screen appear until after rEFInd has finished doing whatever it does. I
    can simply switch back to Grub, instead of doing everything twice.

    Doug.

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  • From Bit Twister@2:250/1 to All on Mon Nov 14 17:08:26 2022
    On Tue, 15 Nov 2022 03:47:53 +1100, Doug Laidlaw wrote:
    On 14/11/22 08:10, Doug Laidlaw wrote:

    When I boot Mageia with Grub2, I see only a graphical screen (probably
    not X; the equivalent of DOS in a Windows setup, is this what
    "framebuffer" means?) until X starts, and it hides all the text-mode
    stuff.

    Yup, I removed quiet and set audit=0 splash=off plymouth.enable=0
    just so I can watch what is happening while system boots via grub2.

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  • From David W. Hodgins@2:250/1 to All on Mon Nov 14 18:34:34 2022
    On Mon, 14 Nov 2022 11:47:53 -0500, Doug Laidlaw <laidlaws@hotkey.net.au> wrote:
    I am getting nowhere with this. I was treating rEFInd as another bootloader, like Grub2, but it seems that it isn't. rEFInd can call
    grub2, and then I see the standard Mageia grub2 list to choose from. In efibootmgr, rEFInd is listed as a choice, just as a distro is listed.

    Just to state again what I am enquiring about:

    When I boot Mageia from its icon in rEFInd, i get a text-mode bootup,
    such as I would see when booting into rescue mode. Then X starts, and
    the desktop is loaded.

    When I boot Mageia with Grub2, I see only a graphical screen (probably
    not X; the equivalent of DOS in a Windows setup, is this what
    "framebuffer" means?) until X starts, and it hides all the text-mode
    stuff. rEFInd seems not to be concerned with any distro settings, such
    as those in /etc/default/grub, and I can't make the Mageia startup
    screen appear until after rEFInd has finished doing whatever it does. I
    can simply switch back to Grub, instead of doing everything twice.

    With refind, it's configuration does not need to be updated with each kernel install. It searches for bootable installs during startup and has one icon
    per bootable install/method.

    If you want the text hidden during startup, use drakboot to edit the kernel parameters for the linux stanza to ensure "splash quiet" are both present. Alternatively the file /boot/refind_linux.conf can be manually edited.

    Remove splash and quiet if you do want to see the boot progress messages.

    Regards, Dave Hodgins

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