Hi all!
I would like to reduce the number of boot items in my rEFInd list. Especially now before I install Pop! OS. Mint will continue being my main distro. But I like to try other distros.
Last year I tried Deepin. And although I thought I had formatted its partition, I continue seeing its boot entries in rEFInd
I have already run:
sudo apt-get autoremove
It sure did remove lots of files, but this did not shrink the list of boot items in rEFInd
I read that the next thing to do would be to add the names of those boot items to their corresponding blacklists in rEFInd (1. #dont_scan_volumes, 2. #dont_scan_dirs, 3. #dont_scan_files). So I'm trying to do that now, but a few things do not make sense. For instance, the 2 boot items I want to remove have the word deepin (Boot EFI\deepin\grubx64.efi from ESP, and Boot boot\vmlinuz-4.15.0-30deepin-generic from 976 GiB ext4 volume). According to the first one, there's a directory called deepin inside the EFI dir. But this is not true:
So I'm assuming it's just a matter of removing that text from the refind.conf file. However, doing a search in that file for the word deepin did not bring up anything. This means that rEFInd is picking it up from somewhere else, but where then?
Thanks guys