Launch a tool to edit Secure Boot keys ( MokManager,īy default, options to display an information page, manage hidden tags, shutdown the computer, and reboot the computer are present.Launch the tool to partition a disk ( gptsync or.In this figure, these eight tags are present: If you've moved the selection cursor to the second row, pressing the up arrow key or scrolling past the left edge of the second row moves the cursor to the top row. Moving past the final selection or using the down arrow key moves the selection to the second row of small tags, which launch ancillary programs or perform special actions.
#Refind boot manager line editor full
(Such an arrow is visible to the right in the sample screen.) You can scroll the list by one line full of icons by using the Page Up or Page Down keys to move left and right, respectively. If your system has many boot loaders, an arrow icon will appear to the right and/or left of the boot loader list, indicating that the boot loader list will scroll when you move off the edge. You can move the selection left by pressing the left arrow key and right by pressing the right arrow key. In this example, the Ubuntu tag is selected. All but the first of these are on hard disks, but the unknown Linux boot loader is on an optical disc, as revealed by the small icons (known as badges) in the lower-right corners of the OS icons. This display is dominated by the central set of OS tags (icons), which in this example includes tags for an unknown Linux distribution, Ubuntu, macOS, and Windows. (In this example, it's the Ubuntu Linux loader, which is further identified by text as EFI\ubuntu\grub圆4.efi from ESP.) (The timeout is shown beneath the description line until you press a key.) This is normally the item that you launched the last time rEFInd ran, but you can adjust the default by editing the configuration file. If you don't press a key before the timeout expires, the default boot loader will launch. The Installing and Uninstalling rEFInd and Keeping rEFInd Booting pages offer some tips on common problems, though.Īssuming rEFInd starts up correctly, you should see its main screen, which resembles the following: Unfortunately, I can't offer much specific advice on this score, since EFI implementations differ so much in their user interfaces. If there was an installation problem or if your firmware is buggy, though, you may need to select it from your firmware's boot options or reconfigure your firmware to present rEFInd automatically. Depending on your configuration, rEFInd will probably come up immediately. With rEFInd in place and added to your firmware's list of boot utilities, as described in Installing and Uninstalling rEFInd, you can reboot your computer. A few details aren't entirely intuitive, though, so this page describes them.
For the most part, rEFInd is easy to use just use your keyboard's arrow keys to select the OS you want to boot or the utility you want to launch and press the Enter key.