Hi, I use Refind for my bootloader and have a few distros booting from it. I installed Kaos with the 'no bootloader' option as I thought I could add it to my existing Refind install. However Refind can't find it, and neither can I. Were Are the vmlinuz and initrd files to boot Kaos? I need to figure out what to put in the Refind manual stanza to boot Kaos.
Thanks.
How to add Kaos to Refind bootloader
More info is needed to help with that.
Is this a BIOS or UEFI system?
For UEFI, /boot is a separate partition and contains the kernel modules (unless you choose manual partitioning, and choose not to install the EFI partition).
So best is to pastebin the /var/log/installation.log
from the KaOS partition.
@demm thanks for the reply. I had a look in /var/log but there is no installation.log, only a pacman log. Is that what you need?
Sorry I don't know how to work pastebin. I hope you can retrieve the dropbox image.
;-)
If there is no installation log, that means the install did not happen/finish, the next to last step always creates that log.
@demm that's interesting. I guess the 'no bootloader' option maybe caused that?
The second thing I noticed in your initial reply, that didn't really register the first time, is that for UEFI /boot needs to be a separate partition. I am using UEFI and there is an EFI partition already. I pointed /boot to the existing EFI partition in the manual partitioning step (and created a "/" partition and a "/home" partition), but there was nothing created in the EFI partition related to Kaos that I could find.
Anyway I'll try the install again.
Thanks again.
Well, reinstalled and I selected refind as the bootloader, and basically nothing happened. My existing refind still didn't find it, and I still couldn't booto it. So I reinstalled again and selected systemd. This time a .efi file appeared in the systemd folder in the EFI partition, Refind found it and I can now boot Kaos. Only tiny fly in the ointment is that it boots into grubbish looking screen with a couple of choices on it, and I would prefer it booted directly into Kaos, but I can live with that. Still no idea where the vmlinuz/initrd files are, but I'll h ave another look later.
;-)
mogplus8 I guess the 'no bootloader' option maybe caused that?
No, it only selects which bootloader to use, nothing else.
But when using the manual partitioning, you are presented with a warning in bold about how to set the EFI partition, right before you can select manual, failing to do so in the correct way will of course result in a failed install.
But.....manual is there for those who know what they are doing, otherwise automated should be used.
- Edited
Can we close this?
shalokshalom Absolutely. I no longer have the problem. ;-)