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    its1louder got a reaction from fabiobeneditto in rEFInd for uefi/gpt boot   
    Recently my newer machines have UEFI bios and I have started using refind as the bootloader/manager instead of grub or lilo and the like .  I really like it!  Its simple and flexible and highly automated and aesthetically pleasing.  I have one machine with apparently broken bios that I can't get uefi boot to work so that one has grub2.  
     
    My question is with respect to boot-update.  any thought about supporting uefi/refind with boot-update? In the part where boot.conf says "generate grub" it could say "generate refind" optionally and then the output would be the refind.conf in /boot.
     
    Right now I don't really use boot-update, I just edit grub.cfg directly on my one machine with broken uefi since it seems like a layer of abstraction that doesn't buy me anything at all (I have no need for grub-legacy) and seems directly in competition with grub-mkconfig (itself a layer I am dubious about).  But, if a single tool like boot-update could generate boot loader configs for either my uefi (refind) or non-uefi (grub2) systems then its less syntax I have to learn to cover both bases - an abstraction that does give me something.  
     
    Anyway even if refind isn't in the cards for boot-update I am curious if anyone else in funtoo land uses it for uefi boot.  I found no info about it anywhere except arch forums and the refind site itself, and its not in portage.
     
     
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    its1louder got a reaction from emarsk in rEFInd for uefi/gpt boot   
    Recently my newer machines have UEFI bios and I have started using refind as the bootloader/manager instead of grub or lilo and the like .  I really like it!  Its simple and flexible and highly automated and aesthetically pleasing.  I have one machine with apparently broken bios that I can't get uefi boot to work so that one has grub2.  
     
    My question is with respect to boot-update.  any thought about supporting uefi/refind with boot-update? In the part where boot.conf says "generate grub" it could say "generate refind" optionally and then the output would be the refind.conf in /boot.
     
    Right now I don't really use boot-update, I just edit grub.cfg directly on my one machine with broken uefi since it seems like a layer of abstraction that doesn't buy me anything at all (I have no need for grub-legacy) and seems directly in competition with grub-mkconfig (itself a layer I am dubious about).  But, if a single tool like boot-update could generate boot loader configs for either my uefi (refind) or non-uefi (grub2) systems then its less syntax I have to learn to cover both bases - an abstraction that does give me something.  
     
    Anyway even if refind isn't in the cards for boot-update I am curious if anyone else in funtoo land uses it for uefi boot.  I found no info about it anywhere except arch forums and the refind site itself, and its not in portage.
     
     
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