Maybe I am wrong, too. Although I have recommended rEFInd many times, I have never actually used it.
You can tell by my immediate need to look this issue up...
I am aware of the "AE_already exists" error on standard PC's, but any resolution seeking I would advise would all begin at Grub. The other method would be running fsck given the "couldn't get size" error.
I do not want to give you faulty information...
There are several Mac Users on the forum running Linux, so hopes are high they may know something. In the meantime, I will also keep searching the web.
You were right. reFind replace grub for the first part of the boot. But grub gets the hand back for the rest.
update-grub could not find grub because I need to mount /sys/proc and /dev too.
After that, I have followed your link to add loglevel=3 to my grub file.
Unfortunately, now the system reboot right after reFind load grubx64.efi.
I have tried to remove quiet and splash but same thing.
I will try to add noapic noacpi nosplash instead of quiet splash.
If you can boot into your Ubuntu installation or an Ubuntu emergency disk, you could run the Boot Repair utility and select the "Create BootInfo Summary" option. (DO NOT click "Recommended Repair," at least not yet!) When asked whether to upload the report, click "Yes," and then post the URL provided here. This should provide helpful diagnostic information on your configuration
But I have understood that the efi partition is not mounted in /boot but in /boot/efi. Maybe I can try again update-grub.
I think the problem is not with reFind. In the last log I've posted, we can see that the system start to boot.
I have try a boot repair anyway. And after that I got an complete pastbin URL. https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/7hKzhcKqJm
And a little message that say Locked-NVram detected
But after that, my system boot again
I have restored quiet splash in grub because the system won't halt or reboot.
I have two new problems now:
One of my three screen is locked to a low-resolution setting