refind.conf doesn't appear to be used

[GeekJosh]

I’ve been having a couple of niggling issues with rEFInd (mainly warning about legacy boot and “scanfor”)

I’ve edited my refind.conf in /var/www/fog/service/ipxe/refind.conf to turn legacy scanning off as it’s not needed, but I’m still getting the error.

As a test, I’ve also changed timeout from -1 to 10, but I still don’t see rEFInd’s menu.

This leads me to believe that refind.conf is not being loaded.

What might I be doing wrong?

[Tom Elliott]

@geekjosh It is reading it from that location. Now there is a possibility that you have two separate installs of fog going on your machine, this happens from time to time.

Try:

cp /var/www/{fog,html/fog}/service/ipxe/refind.conf

Then try booting your machine.

[Tom Elliott]

Exit type possibly?

In FOG you can set exit per host, and globally.

The defaults are:

BIOS Boot: SANBOOT
UEFI Boot: EXIT

The global settings are found in FOG Configuration Page->FOG Settings->Boot Settings.

If you set a specific host with defined exit types, that will override the Global for that host. Hopefully that helps.

[GeekJosh]

I’ve set exit type to REFIND, and that is working fine (as in, it loads refind) but refind appears to be ignoring the refind.conf - do I have to rebuild it with the new conf or something or should it just read that file at runtime like I’m expecting?

[Tom Elliott]

@geekjosh It is reading it from that location. Now there is a possibility that you have two separate installs of fog going on your machine, this happens from time to time.

Try:

cp /var/www/{fog,html/fog}/service/ipxe/refind.conf

Then try booting your machine.

[GeekJosh]

@tom-elliott that was it! Thanks for your help

[Tom Elliott]

@geekjosh Then for safety in the future:

Please run:

mv /var/www/fog{,_backupold}
ln -s /var/www/html/fog /var/www/fog