macosmacos-sierrarefind

Reset custom macOS icon in rEFInd

I installed rEFInd the other day to test out some Linux distros. But what really bugs me is that I have set an icon for my hard drive which is used by rEFInd.

What I tried to reset it:

  1. Removing the icon from the hard drive
  2. Adding another icon to / and named it .VolumeIcon.png
  3. Reinstalling rEFInd
  4. Added another os icons named boot.png and loader.png to EFI/refind/icons on the EFI volume

The only thing that did work was to set another hard drive icon. But I don't want to have an icon at all.

Does anyone know how I could reset rEFInd's cache?

Solution

  • Okay, it seems to be a caching bug. I finally found a workaround. To fix it I created an invalid .VolumeIcon.icns on my hard drive, rebooted and removed the icon. Now it works like a charm.

    Here are the steps and terminal commands:

    Become Root with sudo su

    sudo su

    Create invalid .VolumeIcon.icns in root directory of internal hard drive

    echo "" > .VolumeIcon.icns

    Exit from root user

    exit

    Reboot your system

    Remove /.VolumeIcon.icns from root directory of internal hard drive

    sudo rm /.VolumeIcon.icns