How to uninstall completely grub to boot with refind?

[carcamovski]

Hi everyone,

I have installed and run manjaro-refind-installer. However, at startup and when refind starts, when choosing manjaro, I still get into grub. I have uninstall grub from my system and I have restarted to see if now when choosing manjaro, the OS starts without passing through grub… No luck, it ended up at grub rescue . I have rescued the grub using a manjaro usb installer. However, when choosing manjaro on refind it still passes through grub (this makes senses). I noticed that on the refind wikis there are no instructions of what to do when having grub before installing refind. Does someone know how to completely get rid of grub so refind boots the manjaro iso directly?

Cheers

[jakfish]

I use Manjaro/rEFind on a Surface Pro 6, but I did not install rEFind with manjaro-refind-installer

Instead, I went about it with this:

[HowTo] Enable Secure Boot with rEFInd

I realize this is a touchy subject for some, but for others, enacting secure boot in Manjaro may be of interest. New to Arch/Manjaro, I had many difficulties finding secure boot for a Surface Pro 6. The Arch wikis about secure boot, by their own admission, are outdated or incomplete. For instance, signed grub needs to be installed and but apparently, grub-install is now superseded by working with grub img, a change that I found only after many failed attempts and ultimately proved above my pay …

And I did not have to uninstall grab. rEFind simply becomes the first boot option and grub never played a role.

[Yochanan]

Don’t choose the Manjaro GRUB entry, then.

The /boot/grub/x86_64-efi is still there, so rEFInd detects it. Instead, boot the Manjaro initramfs entry; i.e, /boot/initramfs-5.15-x86_64.img.

[carcamovski]

@Yochanan

The /boot/grub/x86_64-efi is still there, so rEFInd detects it. Instead, boot the Manjaro initramfs entry; i.e, /boot/initramfs-5.15-x86_64.img.

I don’t have the initramfs entry on refind - I only have windows, the grub entry and the vmlinuz entry - if I choose the vmlinuz one it goes to a rootfs terminal.

[carcamovski]

Yep, another thing that I would like to do is to use secure boot. And even I went through that post and followed the instructions, is not the answer I’m looking for here.