href="mailto:rodsmith@rodsbooks.com">rodsmith@rodsbooks.com</a></p>
<p>Originally written: 3/14/2012; last Web page update:
-5/16/2014, referencing rEFInd 0.8.1</p>
+2/8/2015, referencing rEFInd 0.8.6</p>
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<ul>
<li><b><a
- href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.8.1/refind-bin-0.8.1.zip/download">A
+ href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.8.6/refind-bin-0.8.6.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/0.8.1/refind-bin-gnuefi-0.8.1.zip/download">variant
+ href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.8.6/refind-bin-gnuefi-0.8.6.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.</li>
<li><b><a
- href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.8.1/refind-0.8.1-1.x86_64.rpm/download">A
+ href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.8.6/refind-0.8.6-1.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/0.8.1/refind-0.8.1-1.src.rpm/download">source
+ href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.8.6/refind-0.8.6-1.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/0.8.1/refind_0.8.1-1_amd64.deb/download">A
+ href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.8.6/refind_0.8.6-1_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
- package using <tt>alien</tt>.</li>
+ package using <tt>alien</tt>. Note that an <a href="#ppa">Ubuntu
+ PPA</a> is available, which may install more smoothly and will cause
+ rEFInd to automatically update with other packages.</li>
<!--
<li><b><a
<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/0.8.1/refind-cd-0.8.1.zip/download">A
+ href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.8.6/refind-cd-0.8.6.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/0.8.1/refind-flashdrive-0.8.1.zip/download">A
+ href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.8.6/refind-flashdrive-0.8.6.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/0.8.1/refind-src-0.8.1.zip/download">A
+ href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.8.6/refind-src-0.8.6.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
<ul>
-<li><b>Ubuntu</b>—Although an official Ubuntu package isn't
- available, I've created a <a
+<li><a name="ppa"><b>Ubuntu</b></a>—Although an official Ubuntu
+
package isn't available, I've created a <a
href="https://launchpad.net/~rodsmith/+archive/refind">rEFInd PPA</a>
- for Ubuntu. To use it, type <tt class="userinput">sudo
- apt-add-repository ppa:rodsmith/refind</tt>, then <tt
- class="userinput">sudo apt-get update</tt>. You can then type <tt
- class="userinput">apt-get install refind</tt> to install the package.
- Thereafter, the rEFInd version will update along with your other
- software. This package is built with GNU-EFI and is not signed with a
- Secure Boot key; however, the install script (which launches
+ for Ubuntu. To use it, open a Terminal window and type <tt
+ class="userinput">sudo apt-add-repository ppa:rodsmith/refind</tt>,
+ then <tt class="userinput">sudo apt-get update</tt>. You can then type
+ <tt class="userinput">sudo apt-get install refind</tt> to install the
+ package. Thereafter, the rEFInd version will update along with your
+ other software. This package is built with GNU-EFI and is not signed
+ with a Secure Boot key; however, the install script (which launches
automatically when you install the package) should sign the binary with
a locally-generated key if it detects that your system uses Secure
Boot. Thus, if you've previously installed one of my binaries on a
href="http://packages.altlinux.org/en/Sisyphus/srpms/refind">this
page</a> for details.</li>
+<li><b>Slackware</b>—As far as I know, an official rEFInd package is
+ not available as part of Slackware; however, a <a
+ href="http://slackbuilds.org/repository/14.1/system/refind/?search=refind">Slackware
+ package from SlackBuilds</a> is available.</li>
+
<li><b><a href="http://distro.ibiblio.org/fatdog/web/">Fat
Dog</a></b>—This variant of Puppy Linux uses a combination of
rEFInd and GRUB 2 to boot its installation medium in EFI mode and
collection</a></b>—This site creates packages for a number of
OSes using its own packaging system.</li>
-<li><b>Slackware</b>—Although it doesn't seem to provide an official
- build, <a href="http://franck-barbenoire.fr/spip.php?article198">this
- site</a> has links to rEFInd binary packages for Slackware 13.37 and
- 14.0.</li>
-
</ul>
<p>To the best of my knowledge, no other Linux distribution yet includes rEFInd in its repositories. That's likely to change in time. If you hear of rEFInd being included in an OS's official package set, feel free to <a href="mailto:rodsmith@rodsbooks.com">drop me a line.</a></p>
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+<p>copyright © 2012–2015 by Roderick W. Smith</p>
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