href="mailto:rodsmith@rodsbooks.com">rodsmith@rodsbooks.com</a></p>
<p>Originally written: 3/14/2012; last Web page update:
-5/5/2013, referencing rEFInd 0.6.10</p>
+5/4/2014, referencing rEFInd 0.8.0</p>
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<ul>
<li><b><a
- href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.6.10/refind-src-0.6.10.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 Kit 2 (EDK2)</a> to build my binary packages (below),
- although the <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnu-efi">GNU-EFI</a>
- development tools are also supported.</li>
-
-<li><b><a
- href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.6.10/refind-bin-0.6.10.zip/download">A
+ href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.8.0/refind-bin-0.8.0.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
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/0.6.10/refind-bin-gnuefi-0.6.10.zip/download">variant
+ href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.8.0/refind-bin-gnuefi-0.8.0.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>
+ users with this problem.</li>
<li><b><a
- href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.6.10/refind-0.6.10-1.x86_64.rpm/download">A
+ href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.8.0/refind-0.8.0-1.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/0.6.10/refind-0.6.10-1.src.rpm/download">source
+ href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.8.0/refind-0.8.0-1.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/0.6.10/refind_0.6.10-1_amd64.deb/download">A
+ href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.8.0/refind_0.8.0-1_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
either build.)</li>
-->
-<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>
+<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. The x86-64 version of the <a href="http://en.altlinux.org/Rescue">ALT Linux Rescue disc</a> uses a Secure Boot-enabled rEFInd, though, so you may find that useful in some situations.</p>
<li><b><a
- href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.6.10/refind-cd-0.6.10.zip/download">A
+ href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.8.0/refind-cd-0.8.0.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/0.6.10/refind-flashdrive-0.6.10.zip/download">A
+ href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.8.0/refind-flashdrive-0.8.0.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
other low-level disk copying utility.</li>
+<li><b><a
+ href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.8.0/refind-src-0.8.0.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 Kit 2 (EDK2)</a> to build my binary packages (above),
+ although the <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnu-efi">GNU-EFI</a>
+ development tools are also supported.</li>
+
<li><b><a href="https://sourceforge.net/p/refind/code">Source code via
git</a></b>—If you want to peruse the source code in your Web
browser or get the very latest version (including pre-release bug fixes
rEFInd's git repository in the Arch User Repository (AUR), under the
name <tt>refind-efi-git</tt>. The git release is likely to include
pre-release bug fixes and new features, but those features may be
- poorly tested or undocumented. The last I checked, both builds used the
- 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; see <a
- href="http://packages.altlinux.org/en/Sisyphus/srpms/refind">this page</a>
- for details.</li>
+ poorly tested or undocumented.</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
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+<p>copyright © 2012–2014 by Roderick W. Smith</p>
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