It's important that you disable any other drives with OSes or install Windows first. Windows loves to install its bootloader in all drives or install it in a drive which is different than the one where Windows is on.

The coincidence of this video's release in unbelievable. Just finished setting up Arch and Win 11 install and currently watching this to have rEFInd installed haha

In the end, I decided that the complication of trying to get this to work with Secure Boot enabled was just too much so I gave up. Grub may not look pretty but it does at least work. Of course I could disable Secure Boot, which seems to be heavily controlled by Microsoft. I'd be interested to know what others think about that.

You find some really cool tools. Good job on showing it and using it. Just installed it, (along with multiple OS install :) ) And it's great. Good job, keep it up.

I used rEFInd years ago when I managed/supported a lab of iMacs at a college where they wanted them to dual boot MacOS and Windows so the lab could be used by multiple departments more easily. Handy tool for the use case.

This is a very concise and quick tutorial. 10/10

Good video, spread the message👍👏 I use this since 5 years, have it on any machine, also intel mac. The flexibility, adoptibility and the option to goto bios or boot from usb is the great great advantage over any other bootmanager. What this also offers is to boot kernels from the root fs directly, great if you lose your efi partition or restore linux root fs on another machine. Just adopt fstab. I install linux on one machine, set it up to my needs, and then transfer the root partition with gnome disks to all my machines and boot with refind.

Very happy to learn about this. I still have a dual-boot setup although Linux is pretty much my daily driver for everything. Still find occasional things to do in Windows world though. This looks like it'll make the system a bit more user-friendly.

Very nice! Thanks for the video.

Great video, I have used this in the past and I really like it.

Nice video, found this very informative and easy to follow!

been looking for a graphical interface for grub for years. awesome man!

Been using rEFInd for over a decade to triple-boot my intel MacBook Pro (macOS, Linux, Win). It's been better for the job than any other boot manager I've tried. Every now and then an OS update breaks it but all you have to do on the MBP is restore boot (command+r during boot), go to the terminal, and run the rEFInd install command and it's back to working perfectly again.

This was unexpectedly surprisingly good Thanks. didnt think I'd enjoy this

Excellent tool which I never heard of, thanks a lot for the walkthrough !

Pretty cool. I've heard the best way is to not mix bootloaders because it can all go wrong and leave you in a pickle, so best to install on different drives and use boot select menu to jump into a Linux install, leaving Windows bootloader as the default. Have you ever had a Win/Linux dual boot go bad and leave you up the creek without a paddle?

Easy to follow tutorial!!!! thanks

I did this on an old MacBook I had and managed to get a triple boot: MACOS, Win11, and Mint! Cool video.

Used refit a long time ago on a macbook white 2010. Windows 10 and 11 however, keeps on installing the 320M nvdia graphics driver causing my system to boot loop. Finally used Opencore with Big Sur. Everything worked after it automatically patched the drivers. Breathed new life to my macbook.

Dual booting Windows 11 and Linux doesn't require and software. Just install UEFI Linux on a drive separate from the Windows drive. Tell the install to use the Windows bootloader to start. The motherboard now handles the selection. With Windows 10, on startup, the first screen would be a selection screen.

refind is much more fun than you showed in this video i am using it primarly to dual boot hp laptop from nvme drives that are not bootable from normal bios\uefi because uefi is missing nvme drivers to see nvme drives as anything it can recognize fun thing is i installed it manually by copying files to boot partition including nvme driver but i never set up secure boot credentials for it so currently secure boot is disabled i initially used it just to boot my non bootable drives using sd card or flash drive but since it can live on internal ssd it made life much easier there is one more feature of refind i would like to mention, it loads drivers trough uefi shell so if you use fallback boot mannager and don't reboot your computer it will drop you to boot menu of your uefi/bios only with drivers loaded but you could technically load uefi shell extensions other than drivers trough it or go directly to uefi shell. making it convinient way to load bugs to your computer so making your boot secure might be a good idea while using refind, so secure but certification for refind should be a next video. kind of a nesesery evil at this point.

The EFI System Partition (ESP) should have already been mounted at /boot/efi in Ubuntu 22.04.

Top - tnx for the vid

Thanks Don.

Can you do this on the steamdeck? Currently I use Clover (someone modified the Mac on for the steamdeck)

how to use refind boot manager for a dual booting of 2 linux distros in an old bios legacy pc?

Thanks 👍

I've been using dual boot (Windows/Ubuntu) from the grub boot manager. What I would really like to do is be able to choose the OS remotely (i.e. reboot remotely and choose theh OS to boot from). I frequently need to stage my woodshop computer remotely with 3D plans, sometimes using Windows and other times Ubuntu, before venturing out there to get to work. Any way I can access a boot manager remotely? Maybe text files that have different boot scenarios scripted that I can change prior to rebooting? I've thought about IP KVM, but more hardware isn't a preferred choice. I'd rather just stage the boot either in real time or by prepping a boot script.

This reminds me that I have to update Clover which is a similar boot manager.

Will this work with Intel 2017 iMac! Can you game with this? Also Will This work with HP chromebook

Do you have a tutorial to do this with ChromeOS Flex and Windows 11?

idk how you* find those thing, but thx i think i can use my minipc for something useful like kodi/batocera, i have only w11 for the moment and i dont use it at all

How does this handles Windows recovery and major updates?

SystemD is *not* a boot manager like GRUB or reFind. It is an init system for Linux.

Probably you don't need to mount efi part... it should be mounted already at /boot/efi ... anyway, great boot manager.

But is not the the EFI with its subdirectory refind already mounted at /boot/efi ? So do you really need to mount again ?

Windows Boot Manager can also boot linux at least in legacy bios mode

can i configure rEFInd to boot to a particular OS after a countdown?

I dual booted windows 10 and manjaro had to use timeshift to restore my manjaro. Looks like it messed up the windows 10 boot. The files are still there just not bootable. I made sure I only used timeshift on my ssd with manjaro. Any ideas why it messed with the dual boot?

I used clover on steamdeck. Same thing by the looks of it.

already dual boot win 11 and ubuntu, soo i should be able just install refind right? Guess I'll just YOLO it...

rEFInd is a good boot manager. not sure why ubuntu is using older version in it's repo. Linux Mint used to have version 0.14.02 and it even went back to the old version 0.13.2. the older version works just fine. The Arch Linux AUR has the latest verson of rEFInd.

Is it work with Pop!OS? Because Pop!OS uses the systemd-boot bootloader?

Could you please do a demo of rEFInd with LUKS2 and Dual-boot with Windows?

How did Windows updates do? As probably known... With Windows updates the update completes after a reboot... How well does this do with this multiboot solution ?

Would you dp same thing if u want to install Linux on a different drive than windows drive.

bro, how did you do autocorrect at "atp" to apt at 7:58?

I don't like GRUB because it's ugly and I don't know why they did not update the look of it. maybe because it just "works". thanks for your help. now I can make my Laptop boot menu look better.

Just for information; in my case I had to disable Secure Boot

work on legacy bios?

Hey guys. Long time Linux and grub user. I've also dual booted many times over the years for various reasons. Can someone explain why I'd want to use this over grub? Grub and osprober have always seemed to be completely sufficient for me and I don't see much advantage to this other than it having a GUI.

You have a FileCR entry in your Ventoy disk. I know what you did there! 😂

Will this work with windows 10 ? Then Linux distro?

I prefer dualbooting Linux and Linux.

What's wrong with systemd bootloader

Win Boot will kill off the linux partition after a few updates. It never fails... to always fail.

This is to complicated for New Linux user stick to default bootloader

Does this work with full disk encryption?

Is refind based on Grub?

Does the Ventoy USB thumbdrive contain the ISOs of all the OSes on its option list? Can I use rEFInd to dual boot Windows 11 with ChromeFlex? If so, how do I put the ChromeFlex ISO onto the Ventoy flash drive? When ChromeOS Flex was CloudReady from Neverware, making a dual boot computer with Windows was very easy. No need for any commandline. Now you have to do all sorts with GRUB to get it to work. Apparently, Google who bought Neverware, doesn't want people to dual boot ChromeFlex with Windows.

Will this work on legacy bios? My motherboard doesn't have UEFI.

I wonder if mom hackers approve of this?) 😇❤

why do you have such a old version of windows 11!? lol

WSL: 🗿🗿🗿🗿👍👍

Saw this only supports ext2, 3, 4. No thanks.

It's not Ooh bun too, it's Ooh boon to (Ubuntu). It's really a very simple South African word, please get the pronunciation right.

Give it a couple of major updates, and Microsoft will lock you out and because, (and you can hear the excuses now) refind was considered a security threat by UEFI.

Someone tell me it doesn't break or fail to boot an OS after an update 🥹