Installing rEFInd (Debian Main Drive)

[Michael]

Installing rEFind onto a Debian Main Drive or Alternative Boot Drive​

You can install this to your main Debian drive.

Or as I did, I installed a fresh copy of Debian to a separate smaller ssd drive and install the rEFind files to that drive. I keep various repair tools on that drive, including gparted and TimeShift. If I have an emergency on my main drive, I can always boot to the rEFind drive and use it to repair my main drive.

Open a browser and download the rEFind install file here:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.14.0.2/refind_0.14.0.2-1_amd64.deb/download

Locate the file and make it executable and install it.

You will need to reboot and open your bios. Locate the drive you have just installed to and choose to boot it first.

Package files install the rEFInd binaries to /usr/share/refind-version, the documentation to /usr/share/doc/refind-version, and a few miscellaneous files elsewhere. (The PPA package omits the version number from the file paths.) Upon installation, the package runs the refind-install script to copy the files to the ESP. This enables you to re-install rEFInd after the fact by running refind-install, should some other tool or OS wipe the ESP or should the installation go awry. In such cases you can use refind-install or install manually.


List of other downloads are here:

https://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/getting.html

 

[Michael]

 

[Michael]

I had my refind become corrupt, it showed a blank description in my bios. I booted into Debian and reran the deb pkg installer. I did not have to re-modify my themes and everything worked.