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<p>Originally written: 3/14/2012; last Web page update:
-1/16/2013, referencing rEFInd 0.6.5</p>
+3/18/2013, referencing rEFInd 0.6.8</p>
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<ul>
<li><b><a
- href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.6.5/refind-src-0.6.5.zip/download">A
+ href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.6.8/refind-src-0.6.8.zip/download">A
source code zip file</a></b>—This is useful if you want to compile
the software locally. Note that I use Linux with the <a
href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/tianocore/">TianoCore EFI
development tools are also supported.</li>
<li><b><a
- href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.6.5/refind-bin-0.6.5.zip/download">A
+ href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.6.8/refind-bin-0.6.8.zip/download">A
binary zip file</a></b>—Download this if you want to install
rEFInd and/or its filesystem drivers on an <i>x</i>86 or <i>x</i>86-64
computer and have no need to test rEFInd first by booting it on an
optical disc. This zip file package includes both <i>x</i>86 (aka IA32)
and <i>x</i>86-64 (aka <i>x</i>64, AMD64, or EM64T) versions of rEFInd.
Which you install depends on your architecture, as described on the <a
- href="installing.html">Installing rEFInd</a> page.</li>
+ href="installing.html">Installing rEFInd</a> page. Some users of Arch
+ Linux have reported problems booting some specific Arch Linux kernels
+ with rEFInd and some other tools. For them, a <a
+ href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.6.8/refind-bin-gnuefi-0.6.8.zip/download">variant
+ package</a> exists in which the <i>x</i>86-64 binary was compiled with
+ GNU-EFI rather than the usual TianoCore EDK2. This change helps some
+ users with this problem; but using GNU-EFI also means that this version
+ can't launch BIOS-mode OSes.</li>
<li><b><a
- href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.6.5/refind-0.6.5-1.x86_64.rpm/download">A
+ href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.6.8/refind-0.6.8-1.x86_64.rpm/download">A
binary RPM file</a></b>—If you use an RPM-based <i>x</i>86-64
Linux system such as Fedora or openSUSE, you can install the binary RPM
package rather than use the binary zip file. (I don't provide an
rEFInd</a> page) as part of the installation process. Distribution
maintainers can examine the <tt>refind.spec</tt> file in the source
package and tweak it to their needs. The <a
- href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.6.5/refind-0.6.5-1.src.rpm/download">source
+ href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.6.8/refind-0.6.8-1.src.rpm/download">source
RPM file</a> might or might not build on your system as-is; it relies
on assumptions about the locations of the GNU-EFI development
files.</li>
<li><b><a
- href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.6.5/refind_0.6.5-1_amd64.deb/download">A
+ href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.6.8/refind_0.6.8-1_amd64.deb/download">A
binary Debian package</a></b>—If you use an <i>x</i>86-64 version
of Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, or another Debian-based distribution, you can
install from this package, which was converted from the binary RPM
<p class="sidebar"><b>Note:</b> At the moment, neither the bootable CD-R image file nor the bootable USB flash drive image file supports booting with Secure Boot active.</p>
<li><b><a
- href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.6.5/refind-cd-0.6.5.zip/download">A
+ href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.6.8/refind-cd-0.6.8.zip/download">A
CD-R image file</a></b>—This download contains the same files as
the binary zip file, but you can burn it to a CD-R to test rEFInd
(and its filesystem drivers) without installing it first. (It boots on
computer.</p>
<li><b><a
- href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.6.5/refind-flashdrive-0.6.5.zip/download">A
+ href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.6.8/refind-flashdrive-0.6.8.zip/download">A
USB flash drive image file</a></b>—Although you can create
your own rEFInd USB flash drive, you may find it easier to download
this version and copy it to your USB drive with <tt>dd</tt> or some
Tianocore toolkit, and so support booting BIOS/legacy boot loaders on
UEFI-based PCs.</li>
-<li><b>ALT Linux</b>—This RPM-based distribution is experimenting
- with using rEFInd on EFI-based computers. As I write, the ALT
- developers haven't yet nailed down booting from an optical disc (it's a
- tricky and delicate task, especially when preparing a "hybrid" image),
- but they're working on the problem. They have an RPM of rEFInd, but I
- don't have a download link.</li>
+<li><b>ALT Linux</b>—This RPM-based distribution is experimenting with
+ using rEFInd on EFI-based computers. As I write, the ALT developers haven't
+ yet nailed down booting from an optical disc (it's a tricky and delicate
+ task, especially when preparing a "hybrid" image), but they're working on
+ the problem. They have an RPM of rEFInd; see <a
+ href="http://packages.altlinux.org/en/Sisyphus/srpms/refind">this page</a>
+ for details.</li>
<li><b><a href="http://distro.ibiblio.org/fatdog/web/">Fat
Dog</a></b>—This variant of Puppy Linux uses a combination of