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howtos:slackware_admin:uefi_triple_boot_with_refind_on_slackware [2016/11/17 09:09 (UTC)] – [Booting EFI binaries] aragorn2101howtos:slackware_admin:uefi_triple_boot_with_refind_on_slackware [2017/01/25 08:49 (UTC)] (current) – [GRUB] aragorn2101
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 # mount -t vfat /dev/sda2 /mnt/boot/efi # mount -t vfat /dev/sda2 /mnt/boot/efi
  
-# mount -t proc /proc proc +# mount -t proc /proc /mnt/proc 
-# mount --rbind /sys sys +# mount --rbind /sys /mnt/sys 
-# mount --rbind /dev dev +# mount --rbind /dev /mnt/dev 
-# mount --rbind /run run+# mount --rbind /run /mnt/run
 </code> </code>
  
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          |_ initrd-4.4.29.gz          |_ initrd-4.4.29.gz
                    
- |_ Ubuntu/+ |_ Ubuntu16.04/
        |_ vmlinuz-4.4.16-21.generic        |_ vmlinuz-4.4.16-21.generic
        |_ initrd.img-4.4.16-21.generic        |_ initrd.img-4.4.16-21.generic
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     options "ro root=UUID=9f5b153d-d103-4314-bc98-455fa5d0c625"     options "ro root=UUID=9f5b153d-d103-4314-bc98-455fa5d0c625"
   }   }
-  submenuentry "Linux 4.4.14 generic (recovery mode)" {+  submenuentry "Linux 4.4.29 generic (recovery mode)" {
     options "ro root=UUID=9f5b153d-d103-4314-bc98-455fa5d0c625 single"     options "ro root=UUID=9f5b153d-d103-4314-bc98-455fa5d0c625 single"
   }   }
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 === Using a refind_linux.conf file === === Using a refind_linux.conf file ===
  
-If we have placed a kernel on the EFI partition, like above with Slackware14.1 and Slackware14.2, we can also place a file called refind_linux.conf, holding the booting options, in the same directory as the kernel. For example,+If we have placed a kernel on the EFI partition, like above, we can also place a file called refind_linux.conf, holding the booting options, in the same directory as the kernel. For example,
  
 -> EFI/Slackware14.2/refind_linux.conf : -> EFI/Slackware14.2/refind_linux.conf :
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 ===== Non-bootloader tools ===== ===== Non-bootloader tools =====
  
-Below the icons for bootloaders and kernels selection, there is a set of icons for a set of useful tools/options, e.g. EFI shell, memtest, partitioning program, about, shutdown, reboot. We can choose which options to be visible in the menu.+In the refind menu, below the icons for bootloaders and kernels selection, there is a set of icons for useful tools/options, e.g. EFI shell, memtest, partitioning program, about, shutdown, reboot. We can choose which options to be visible in the menu using the **showtools** command:
 <code> <code>
 showtools reboot,shutdown,about showtools reboot,shutdown,about
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 === Using custom icons === === Using custom icons ===
  
-As we saw above with the custom menu entries we can choose icons for each entry with the **icon** option in each entry. So we can make our own icons and place them in directory EFI/refind/icons/. The default type of icons is bmp or png. There are two types of icons, small ones for the non-bootloader options (e.g. shutdown, reboot, ...), and large ones for the bootloaders/kernel entries. All icons are square and default sizes are 48x48 for the small icons and 128x128 for the large icons. All icons must be more than 32x32 in size. The size of icons can be set using:+As we saw above with the custom menu entries we can choose icons for each entry with the **icon** option. So we can make our own icons and place them in directory EFI/refind/icons/. The default type of icons is bmp or png. There are two types of icons, small ones for the non-bootloader options (e.g. shutdown, reboot, ...), and large ones for the bootloaders/kernel entries. All icons are square and default sizes are 48x48 for the small icons and 128x128 for the large icons. All icons must be more than 32x32 in size. The size of icons can be set using:
 <code> <code>
 large_icon 128 large_icon 128
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