Customize rEFInd Theme on High Sierra – Step-by-Step Guide

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Installed rEFInd using the install binary. All working but the originally theme was a little uninspiring. So I followed following steps from this link.

From OSX, do the following

Start by mounting your EFI partition.

sudo mount -t msdos /dev/disk0s1 /Volumes

Then cd to the rEFInd directory on that partition cd
/Volumes/EFI/rEFInd

Download the theme with Git

git clone https://github.com/EvanPurkhiser/rEFInd-minimal

Now add the theme info to refind.conf

echo "include rEFInd-minimal/theme.conf" >> refind.conf

Reboot with sudo reboot

everything seemed to execute successfuly and the line include rEFInd-minimal/theme.conf has been added to the refind.conf file but when I reboot the theme remains the same (original). Can it be customised?

Sorry, I'm pretty newbie when it comes to this stuff so go easy on me!

Best Answer

I could be wrong, but isn't 

echo "include rEFInd-minimal/theme.conf" >> refind.conf

suppose to be the following.

echo "include themes/rEFInd-minimal/theme.conf" >> refind.conf

You omitted the themes folder, but there are many references to a themes folder in the theme.conf file.

I would suggest the following.

From OSX, do the following

Start by mounting your EFI partition.

sudo mount -t msdos /dev/disk0s1 /Volumes

Then cd to the rEFInd directory on that partition cd /Volumes/EFI/rEFInd

mkdir themes

cd themes

Download the theme with Git

git clone https://github.com/EvanPurkhiser/rEFInd-minimal

Now add the theme info to refind.conf

cd ..
echo "include themes/rEFInd-minimal/theme.conf" >> refind.conf

Reboot with sudo reboot

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