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The Compendium · Chapter 15 of 20

Theming rEFInd

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If you reboot and each OS boots as expected, then congrats!  You now have a quadruple-booting MacBook Pro, but it’s STILL not a Think quadratic. Mac, until it has the “Think quadratic.” theme. In rEFInd

Step 8: Configure rEFInd with the QuadBook_Pro theme

  • Boot into admin-level account on macOS
  • Open Terminal
    • Type “sudo mkdir /Volumes/ESP” and hit “Enter”
    • Enter your password and hit “Enter”
    • Then type “sudo mount -t msdos /dev/disk0s1 /Volumes/ESP” and hit “Enter”
  • In Finder, go to the “refind” folder inside the “EFI” folder inside the “ESP” partition
    • If there isn’t a folder in the “refind” folder titled “themes,” create one
    • Double click on the “refind.conf” file (it should open in the default text editor)
      • Scroll to bottom and add the line “include themes/Think_Quadratic/theme.conf”
    • Close the “refind.conf” file, saving changes
  • Download the appropriate version of the theme from below (depending on which Mac you have just gotten to quadruple-boot)
    • QuadBook Air
    • QuadBook
    • QuadBook Pro
    • QuadTop Mini
    • QuadTop
    • QuadTop Pro
  • Move the newly downloaded “Think_Quadratic” folder to the “themes” folder
  • Restart and ensure rEFInd looks like this: