Reset custom macOS icon in rEFInd

Question

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?

Answer 1

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