2 equal EFI bootloaders on the same EFI partition?

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I want to use 2 VeraCrypt bootloaders side by side (for an encrypted multiboot environment). How do I prevent that the first is overwritten by the second? Is there a possibility to rename the first (or change the path?).

Christoph

Posted 2019-03-27T06:59:04.747

Reputation: 11

Answers

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Maybe this could help: rEFInd.

It's a boot manager, which scans EFI partition for bootloaders and runs it. In your case folder structure in the EFI partition could be like this:

EFI
|
|__bootloader1
|      |__boot.efi
|
|__bootloader2
       |__boot.efi

rEFInd wil find both of them and will allow you to choose which to boot.

agp22888

Posted 2019-03-27T06:59:04.747

Reputation: 3

Ok thank. Refind is a very good hind. But my problem is: how do I get "bootloader 2" into that struct? VeraCrypt always creates the same Bootlader. So I would have to get VeraCryptBootloader_1 along with VeraCryptBootloader_2. – Christoph – 2019-03-27T18:25:50.753

I'm not familiar with veracrypt, but I'd try to move first created bootloader from 'bootloader' folder to 'bootloader 1' before creating second one. It can be done easily in linux - just mount efi partition as any other filesystem. In windows you can use 'EasyUefi'. – agp22888 – 2019-03-28T19:08:25.253