REFInd is not working in macos high sierra 10.13.6 on 2018 MacBook Pro 13 inch even after proper installation

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I have installed rEFInd in my mac by going into recovery mode -> open terminal -> csrutil disable -> cd "/Volumes/Macintosh HD/Users/username/Downloads/refind-bin-0.11.2" -> bash ./refind-install -> csrutil enable -> reboot
But on reboot it shows and loads the Apple icon first and then opens the Boot Recovery where I need to select my hard disk and restart the mac and it boots into macos without showing rEFInd option at the beginning. How to resolve this?

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EDIT: You'll have to run the ./refind-install program in macOS after you've run csrutil disable in the Recovery OS. This will most likely solve any issues you have with installation.

Original answer: I think your problem is that you've tried to disable csrutil through a terminal in MacOS, which won't work. Try following the steps in this article to go into Recovery OS, run csrutil disable; reboot in the Terminal, and then try going through the normal refind install steps. It's your choice if you want to re-enable System Integrity Protection afterwards, but again you'll have to do it through Recovery OS.

Hopefully this advice was interesting and useful to you, and I wish you good luck.

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A simple solution since you are booting off a USB/Recovery disk, you could mount the drive in "read only" via diskutil:

diskutil mountDisk readOnly /dev/diskX

Now, if your USB/Recovery disk has already mounted it when it loads, you will have to unmount it first:

diskutil unmountDisk /dev/diskX

diskX is the drive identifier of the disk you are attempting to (un)mount. You can find it by issuing the command diskutil list and finding the drive you are interested in.

From the manpage:

Mount a single volume. If readOnly is specified, then the file system is mounted read-only, even if the volume's underlying file system and/or device and/or media supports writing; even the super-user may not write to it; this is the same as the rdonly option to mount (8). If a -mountPoint is specified, then that path, rather than the standard path of /Volumes/VolumeName, will be used as the view into the volume file content; a directory at that path must already exist.

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If you are in the internet recovery mode, make sure you are connected directly to your internet router via an ethernet cable.

What you could do is hold the following key combinations first. Shift-Option-Command-R, this will bring you to install the MacOS on your Mac HD.

But you could first refresh NVRAM before resetting your system: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204063

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