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<p>Originally written: 3/14/2012; last Web page update:
-12/6/2012, referencing rEFInd 0.5.0</p>
+12/16/2012, referencing rEFInd 0.6.0</p>
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from the partition data is harder than extracting the volume's
label or counting up the filesystem numbers.</li>
+ <li>Currently, if a filesystem's label comes up empty, rEFInd
+ substitutes the size, so you get displays like <tt>boot
+ EFI\foo\bar.efi from 90 GiB volume</tt>. I'd like to add more
+ checks to substitute the GPT <i>partition</i> label if the
+ <i>filesystem</i> label comes up empty, or add a filesystem type
+ identifier to the size.</li>
+
<li>The default_selection option in refind.conf could be improved by
supporting a list of default options, so that if the first item
isn't found, rEFInd will try to boot the second one in the list,
<tt>/usr/local/UDK2010/MyWorkSpace/MdeModulePkg/Core/Dxe/Image/Image.c</tt>
for the reference UEFI implementation. --> </li>
- <li>When launching ELILO in Secure Boot mode, ELILO can't find its
- configuration file. It's possible that a similar problem exists for
- other boot loaders, too.</li>
-
<li>When setting a resolution higher than about 800x600 (or maybe even
640x480) in text mode, the text displayed by rEFInd, and on some
systems shells and other programs launched from rEFInd, is
<ul>
- <li>With the arrival of PCs preloaded with Windows 8 and with Secure
- Boot enabled, some way to cope is in order. I'm thinking of adding
- code to limit or prohibit booting of unsigned boot loaders if
- rEFInd detects that Secure Boot is active, and link with the <a
- href="http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/18945.html">Shim</a>
- pre-bootloader to help handle signing and authentication. I need to
- research the technical details more, though.</li>
-
<li>EFI supports network boots. rEFInd doesn't, but it would be nice if
it would.</li>
boot. Perhaps this could be done via a separate tool that could be
launched much like the shell or <tt>gptsync</tt>.</li>
- <li>I'd like to give the user the ability to set custom options on a
- single-boot basis, similar to what's possible in GRUB.</li>
-
<li>A way to set the color of the font would be useful for theming
purposes.</li>
written in a cross-platform GUI toolkit, so that a single code base
can be used on any of the major OSes.</li>
- <li>A way to "source" one configuration file from another one would be
- helpful for some types of configuration scripts. (This would enable
- overriding options in a secondary file without modifying the
- default original file, for instance.)</li>
-
</ul></li> <!-- New features -->
<li><b>Improvements to the EFI drivers:</b>
<ul>
- <li>Drivers for additional filesystems are required. Given the recent
- shift to ext4fs, that should be the priority; however, other Linux
- filesystems, UDF, and perhaps others would all be welcome
+ <li>Drivers for additional filesystems are desirable. Given the talk of
+ shifting to Btrfs, that should be the priority; however, other
+ Linux filesystems, UDF, and perhaps others would all be welcome
additions. Also along these lines, adding drivers for Linux LVM and
RAID setups would be useful, too.</li>