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<h1>The rEFInd Boot Manager:<br />rEFInd Features</h1>
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<p class="subhead">by Roderick W. Smith, <a
+<p class="subhead">by Roderick W. Smith, <a
href="mailto:rodsmith@rodsbooks.com">rodsmith@rodsbooks.com</a></p>
- <p>Originally written: 3/14/2012; last Web page update: 3/26/2012, referencing rEFInd 0.2.3</p>
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+<p>Originally written: 3/14/2012; last Web page update: 4/14/2012, referencing rEFInd 0.2.6</p>
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<li>Launch EFI boot loaders or, on Macs, launch BIOS-based boot loaders. (I have yet to get the BIOS-launching feature to work on a UEFI-based PC, but it might work on a model I don't own.)</li>
-<li>Launch options for an
EFI shell, disk partitioner, and other optional external components. (See the <a href="installing.html">Installing rEFInd</a> section for information on how to obtain and install these components.)</li>
+<li>Launch options for an
external EFI shell or disk partitioner. (See the <a href="installing.html">Installing rEFInd</a> section for information on how to obtain and install these components.)</li>
<li>Set OS-specific boot options, such as to launch Mac OS X with verbose text-mode debug messages.</li>
<li>Additional OS icons (all of which are Linux distributions, at least so far). This can make it easier to find a specific distribution in the boot list if you've installed multiple Linux distributions.</li>
-<li>The ability to auto-detect Linux initial RAM disk files and to read Linux kernel options from a <tt>linux.conf</tt> file. These features support (nearly) automatic handling of Linux kernels with embedded EFI stub loader support (a new feature with Linux 3.3.0).</li>
+<li>The ability to auto-detect Linux initial RAM disk files and to read Linux kernel options from a <tt>refind_linux.conf</tt> file. These features support (nearly) automatic handling of Linux kernels with embedded EFI stub loader support (a new feature with Linux 3.3.0).</li>
<li>Fixes to display problems on many UEFI-based PCs.</li>
<li>Improved detection of itself, to keep rEFInd out of its own boot menu.</li>
+<li>An "exit" option (disabled by default), so that you can return to whatever shell or boot manager you used to launch rEFInd, should this ability be desirable. (This feature first appeared in rEFInd 0.2.4.)</li>
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<p>On the flip side, at least for Mac users, rEFInd comes with less sophisticated Mac installation tools than does rEFIt, in favor of more OS-agnostic packaging. Also, rEFInd doesn't support loading EFI drivers; that job should be done in other ways when using rEFInd.</p>