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jlobue10 / SteamDeck_rEFInd

Simple rEFInd install script for the Steam Deck (with GUI customization)
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Uninstalling rEFInd and locating partitions #119

Open Elphor opened 1 month ago

Elphor commented 1 month ago

So i had a dualboot with widnwos set up however, I recently got an external SSD so I'm planning on installing it there, and I can't seem to be able to remove it. I went ahead and wiped the partion that had windows installed and fused back together with the steamOS one.

I am basically trying to remove rEFInd and anyone knows how can i differentiate which partition is for what? i have one for windows recoverey, steamOS recovery and rEFInd but I can't tell the difference between them and I'd like to remove the windows one for starters and then then uninstall rEFInd.

jlobue10 commented 1 month ago

If you look on the main GitHub README page here, there are steps to disable/ remove rEFInd. What you may also want to do is remove the /esp/efi/Microsoft folder since you plan on reinstalling on its own external drive. These steps are assumed to be ran from SteamOS desktop mode (KDE Plasma session).

Elphor commented 1 month ago

If you look on the main GitHub README page here, there are steps to disable/ remove rEFInd. What you may also want to do is remove the /esp/efi/Microsoft folder since you plan on reinstalling on its own external drive. These steps are assumed to be ran from SteamOS desktop mode (KDE Plasma session).

Yes, however, it requires me to replace xxx with the entry but i dont recall which one that is... and i cant tell them apart from the windows one either

jlobue10 commented 1 month ago

What is the output of efibootmgr for you?

Elphor commented 1 month ago

Timeout: 0 seconds BootOrder: 0001,0000,2001,2002,2003 Boot0000 SteamOS HD(1,GPT,0614c38f-8409-0244-804d-2cc126ee18ea,0x800,0x20000)/File(\EFI\steamos\steamcl.efi) Boot0001 Windows Boot Manager HD(1,GPT,0614c38f-8409-0244-804d-2cc126ee18ea,0x800,0x20000)/File(\EFI\Microsoft\Boot\bootmgfw.efi)RC Boot2001 EFI USB Device RC Boot2002 EFI DVD/CDROM RC Boot2003* EFI Network RC

this is what came out. I did see rEFInd, and managed to remove it. it was 0001. Now I have to deal only with windows but that's all good. Thanks, this helped me out a lot!