On Thursday, February 2, 2023 1:15:51 PM CET Klaus Dittrich wrote:

> On 02.02.23 12:33, J. Roeleveld wrote:

> > Please only send mails to the list.

> > There is no need to add me to the TO or CC lists.

> >

> > On Thursday, February 2, 2023 12:22:49 PM CET Klaus Dittrich wrote:

> >> On 02.02.23 10:51, J. Roeleveld wrote:

> >>> On Thursday, February 2, 2023 10:42:40 AM CET Klaus Dittrich wrote:

> >>>> Is there andbody using refind? Especially in Germany?

> >>>> I have some questions about.

> >>>

> >>> If you have questions, feel free to ask on this list.

> >>> I am sure I am not the only one using it.

> >>>

> >>> --

> >>> Joost

> >>

> >> Joost,

> >>

> >> my current system boots from bios(mbr) not uefi.

> >>

> >> My knowlege of uefi is poor and uefi is still confusing me.

> >> So it may be some of my questions will looking silly for you.

> >

> > Did you read the well-written howto on the Gentoo website?

> >

> > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Refind[1]

> >

> > --------

> > [1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Refind

> Joost,

> no. Thanks for the hint, I had just a short look into at it.

> There is presupposed that one is at a uefi system already.

> I have to install refind to a disk mounted to my mbr-booted-system,

> make all necessary adjustments there and then put it to the uefi-only

> machine and boot it there.

> So I cannot call efibootmanger to pin refind to nvram of the uefi-system.

Use a USB boot-stick with EFI image, like the gentoo one. See the relevant section in the Gentoo installguide: