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Refind (rEFInd) on Mac High Sierra/Leap 15.2. Hardware is mid-2011 Mac Mini. Partitioned Mac, installed Refind, then Leap 15.2 OS. Nothing after restart from Leap install. Used option key cold start to get back into Mac OS. Reinstalled Refind, restarted and was able to choose Leap from Refind menu. After doing usual post-install config stuff in. In 2020, RefindPlusemerged as a fork of rEFInd with features intended to support older Macs with third-party video cards, which can be difficult to get working. Thus, the rEFIt family of boot managers has become fairly populous. As already noted, rEFInd is a boot manager for EFI and UEFI computers. REFInd is an open source boot manager or boot loader that supports Linux, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows operating systems. It’s a fork of the well known rEFIt boot manager, but engineered to support UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface)-based machines. The application lets users to manually edit and set boot-time options, try Live.
So I’ve installed Ubuntu on the metal of my MacBook Pro Retina (13 inch, ifyou must know) and in order to dual-boot the machine, I use the rEFInd BootManager.
It works really well and was simple to configure, but I found that afterupgrading to Yosemite (10.10), Mac OS X became the default boot OS, whereasrEFInd was booting by default originally.
Originally, this was fine, I dealt with just holding the Option key downduring boot to bring up the Startup Manager and selecting EFI Boot inorder to get into Linux. I wasn’t restarting the computer that much anyway.But like most things, eventually, it irked me enough that I set out to fix it.
Normally, in OS X, to change the boot drive, you’d use System Preferences andchange your Startup Disk but in this case, you won’t see your EFI partitionavailable to be selected. Likewise, even if you go ahead and follow rEFInd’smethod for mounting the EFI partition, you’ll find that it’s not selectable asa Startup Disk. Or, even if you can, selecting it and restarting makes no difference.
So, what’s a guy to do? Turns out you can hold the Control key downprior to clicking onto a volume/device in the Startup Manager to set thatvolume as the boot default! So, I held down Control, clicked EFI Bootand that’s that.
This worked for me on my 2011-era Mac, now running OS X 10.10, but since thisoption isn’t officially documented anywhere that I can see, it could go awayat any time. Try it and add a comment below with your results.
Thanks to Macworld for the solution!
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As a side note, it’s interesting to see the UI for Mac OS has barely changedin decades for selecting a Startup Disk.