href="mailto:rodsmith@rodsbooks.com">rodsmith@rodsbooks.com</a></p>
<p>Originally written: 3/14/2012; last Web page update:
-1/26/2016, referencing rEFInd 0.10.2</p>
+6/24/2016, referencing rEFInd 0.10.3</p>
<p>This Web page is provided free of charge and with no annoying outside ads; however, I did take time to prepare it, and Web hosting does cost money. If you find this Web page useful, please consider making a small donation to help keep this site up and running. Thanks!</p>
<ul>
<li><b><a
- href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.10.2/refind-bin-0.10.2.zip/download">A
+ href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.10.3/refind-bin-0.10.3.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, <i>x</i>86-64, or ARM64
computer and have no need to test rEFInd first by booting it on an optical
the <a 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/0.10.2/refind-bin-gnuefi-0.10.2.zip/download">variant
+ href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.10.3/refind-bin-gnuefi-0.10.3.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/0.10.2/refind-0.10.2-1.x86_64.rpm/download">A
+ href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.10.3/refind-0.10.3-1.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
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/0.10.2/refind-0.10.2-1.src.rpm/download">source
+ href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.10.3/refind-0.10.3-1.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/0.10.2/refind_0.10.2-1_amd64.deb/download">A
+ href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.10.3/refind_0.10.3-1_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. 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/0.10.2/refind-cd-0.10.2.zip/download">A
+ href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.10.3/refind-cd-0.10.3.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
BIOS-booted computer.</p>
<li><b><a
- href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.10.2/refind-flashdrive-0.10.2.zip/download">A
+ href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.10.3/refind-flashdrive-0.10.3.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/0.10.2/refind-src-0.10.2.tar.gz/download">A
+ href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.10.3/refind-src-0.10.3.tar.gz/download">A
source code tarball</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><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, 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.
- You'll be asked to decide whether to install rEFInd to the ESP when you
- first install it. 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 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 Secure Boot system
- and added its key as a MOK, you'll have to add your local key when you
- reboot.</li>
+<li><b>Debian</b>—Debian added rEFInd 0.10.3 to its "sid" (unstable")
+ repository in June of 2016. Because most people don't use this
+ "bleeding-edge" version of the distribution, it is not yet a practical
+ option for most users; but it is on the way. You can download and
+ install it as a separate package <a
+ href="https://packages.debian.org/unstable/admin/refind">here.</a>
+ Debian's inclusion of rEFInd means that derivative distributions, such
+ as Ubuntu and Mint, will eventually receive rEFInd packages, too. Be
+ aware that Debian's package is not signed with a Secure Boot key,
+ although if the <tt>sbsigntool</tt> package is installed, the
+ installation scripts will generate and use their own Secure Boot
+ keys and sign the binary with them.</li>
+
+<li><b>Ubuntu</b>—Two Ubuntu-specific methods of installing rEFInd in
+ this distribution exist:
+
+ <ul>
+
+ <li>Ubuntu 16.10 ("Yakkety Yak") has synced the Debian package. As I
+ write (in late June, 2016), it's not yet available in the
+ repositories, but it should appear there eventually. Note that, like
+ the Debian package, this one is not signed for use with Secure Boot,
+ but if your system includes the <tt>sbsigntool</tt> package, the
+ installer will generate a local key for this purpose.</li>
+
+ <li>I've created a <a
+ href="https://launchpad.net/~rodsmith/+archive/refind">rEFInd
+ PPA</a> 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. You'll be asked to decide whether to install
+ rEFInd to the ESP when you first install it. 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 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
+ Secure Boot system and added its key as a MOK, you'll have to add
+ your local key when you reboot.</li>
+
+ </ul></li>
<li><b>Arch Linux</b>—You can obtain rEFInd from the Arch
repositories, in both a stable version (the <tt>refind-efi</tt> package