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  12   <h1>The rEFInd Boot Manager:<br />Getting rEFInd</h1>
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  14   <p class="subhead">by Roderick W. Smith, <a
  15 href="mailto:rodsmith@rodsbooks.com">rodsmith@rodsbooks.com</a></p>
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  17   <p>Originally written: 3/14/2012; last Web page update: 3/23/2012, referencing rEFInd 0.2.2</p>
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  86
  87 <p>This page is part of the documentation for the rEFInd boot manager. If a Web search has brought you here, you may want to start at the <a href="index.html">main page.</a></p>
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  90
  91 <p><b>Note:</b> I consider rEFInd to be <i>alpha-quality software!</i> Although rEFIt 0.14, upon which rEFInd is based, is beta-quality, I've changed a great deal of the code, and I'm still learning about it. I'm discovering bugs (old and new) and fixing them every day or two. That said, rEFInd is a usable program in its current form on many systems. If you have problems, feel free to drop me a line.</p>
  92
  93 <p>You can find the rEFInd source code and binary packages at <a href="http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/refind/">its SourceForge page.</a> Note that rEFInd is OS-independent&mdash;it runs before the OS, so you download the same binary package for any OS. You can obtain rEFInd in three different forms:</p>
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  97 <li><b><a
  98     href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.2.2/refind-src-0.2.2.zip/download">A
  99     source code zip file</a></b>&mdash;This is useful if you want to
 100     compile the software locally. Note that I use Linux with the <a
 101     href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnu-efi">GNU-EFI</a> development
 102     tools. rEFIt used an Intel/Microsoft toolchain. Backporting rEFInd to
 103     that toolchain is theoretically possible, but I've not attempted
 104     it.</li>
 105
 106 <li><b><a
 107     href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.2.2/refind-bin-0.2.2.zip/download">A
 108     binary zip file</a></b>&mdash;Download this if you want to install
 109     rEFInd on an x86 or x86-64 computer and have no need to test rEFInd
 110     first by booting it on an optical disc. This zip file package includes
 111     both x86 (aka IA32) and x86-64 (aka x64, AMD64, or EM64T) versions of
 112     rEFInd. Which you install depends on your architecture, as described on
 113     the <a href="installing.html">Installing rEFInd</a> page.</li>
 114
 115 <li><b><a
 116     href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.2.2/refind-cd-0.2.2.zip/download">A
 117     CD-R image file</a></b>&mdash;This download contains the same files as
 118     the zip file, but you can burn it to a CD-R to test rEFInd without
 119     installing it first. If you like it, you can then copy the files from
 120     the CD-R to your hard disk. The files are named in such a way that the
 121     disc should boot on either 64-bit (x86-64) or 32-bit (x86) EFI
 122     computers. Note that there's a bug that causes rEFInd to complain about
 123     invalid parameters while scanning various directories. You can safely
 124     ignore this message, but you'll need to press a key to dismiss it.</li>
 125
 126 </ul>
 127
 128 <p>If you're using another platform, you can give rEFInd a try; however, you'll need to build it from source code yourself or track down a binary from another source. (Perhaps by the time you read this it will be included in Linux distributions built for unusual CPUs.)</p>
 129
 130 <p>If you download a zip file, you'll need to extract the files with a tool such as <tt>unzip</tt>, which is included with Linux and Mac OS X. Numerous Windows utilities also support this format, such as <a href="http://www.pkware.com/software/pkzip/">PKZIP</a> and <a href="http://www.7-zip.org/">7-Zip.</a></p>
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 133
 134 <p>copyright &copy; 2012 by Roderick W. Smith</p>
 135
 136 <p>This document is licensed under the terms of the <a href="FDL-1.3.txt">GNU Free Documentation License (FDL), version 1.3.</a></p>
 137
 138 <p>If you have problems with or comments about this Web page, please e-mail me at <a href="mailto:rodsmith@rodsbooks.com">rodsmith@rodsbooks.com.</a> Thanks.</p>
 139
 140 <p><a href="index.html">Go to the main rEFInd page</a></p>
 141
 142 <p><a href="installing.html">Learn how to install rEFInd</a></p>
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