# Hide user interface elements for personal preference or to increase
# security:
-# banner - the rEFInd title banner
-# label - text label in the menu
+# banner - the rEFInd title banner (built-in or loaded via "banner")
+# label - boot option text label in the menu
# singleuser - remove the submenu options to boot Mac OS X in single-user
# or verbose modes; affects ONLY MacOS X
+# safemode - remove the submenu option to boot Mac OS X in "safe mode"
# hwtest - the submenu option to run Apple's hardware test
# arrows - scroll arrows on the OS selection tag line
+# hints - brief command summary in the menu
+# editor - the options editor (+, F2, or Insert on boot options menu)
# all - all of the above
+# Default is none of these (all elements active)
#
#hideui singleuser
#hideui all
# path is relative to the directory where refind.efi is located. The color
# in the top left corner of the image is used as the background color
# for the menu screens. Currently uncompressed BMP images with color
-# depths of 24, 8, 4 or 1 bits are supported.
+# depths of 24, 8, 4 or 1 bits are supported, as well as PNG images.
#
#banner hostname.bmp
+#banner mybanner.png
# Custom images for the selection background. There is a big one (144 x 144)
# for the OS icons, and a small one (64 x 64) for the function icons in the
# the built-in default will be used for the small icons.
#
# Like the banner option above, these options take a filename of an
-# uncompressed BMP image file with a color depth of 24, 8, 4, or 1 bits.
+# uncompressed BMP image file with a color depth of 24, 8, 4, or 1 bits,
+# or a PNG image. The PNG format is required if you need transparency
+# support (to let you "see through" to a full-screen banner).
#
#selection_big selection-big.bmp
#selection_small selection-small.bmp
+# Set the font to be used for all textual displays in graphics mode.
+# The font must be a PNG file with alpha channel transparency. It must
+# contain ASCII characters 32-126 (space through tilde), inclusive, plus
+# a glyph to be displayed in place of characters outside of this range,
+# for a total of 96 glyphs. Only monospaced fonts are supported. Fonts
+# may be of any size, although large fonts can produce display
+# irregularities.
+# The default is rEFInd's built-in font, Luxi Mono Regular 12 point.
+#
+#font myfont.png
+
# Use text mode only. When enabled, this option forces rEFInd into text mode.
# Passing this option a "0" value causes graphics mode to be used. Pasing
# it no value or any non-0 value causes text mode to be used.
#
#textonly
-# Set the screen's video resolution. Pass this option two values,
-# corresponding to the X and Y resolutions. Note that not all resolutions
-# are supported. On UEFI systems, passing an incorrect value results in a
-# message being shown on the screen to that effect, along with a list of
-# supported modes. On EFI 1.x systems (e.g., Macintoshes), setting an
-# incorrect mode silently fails. On both types of systems, setting an
-# incorrect resolution results in the default resolution being used.
-# A resolution of 1024x768 usually works, but higher values often don't.
+# Set the EFI text mode to be used for textual displays. This option
+# takes a single digit that refers to a mode number. Mode 0 is normally
+# 80x25, 1 is sometimes 80x50, and higher numbers are system-specific
+# modes. Mode 1024 is a special code that tells rEFInd to not set the
+# text mode; it uses whatever was in use when the program was launched.
+# If you specify an invalid mode, rEFInd pauses during boot to inform
+# you of valid modes.
+# CAUTION: On VirtualBox, and perhaps on some real computers, specifying
+# a text mode and uncommenting the "textonly" option while NOT specifying
+# a resolution can result in an unusable display in the booted OS.
+# Default is 1024 (no change)
+#
+#textmode 2
+
+# Set the screen's video resolution. Pass this option either:
+# * two values, corresponding to the X and Y resolutions
+# * one value, corresponding to a GOP (UEFI) video mode
+# Note that not all resolutions are supported. On UEFI systems, passing
+# an incorrect value results in a message being shown on the screen to
+# that effect, along with a list of supported modes. On EFI 1.x systems
+# (e.g., Macintoshes), setting an incorrect mode silently fails. On both
+# types of systems, setting an incorrect resolution results in the default
+# resolution being used. A resolution of 1024x768 usually works, but higher
+# values often don't.
# Default is "0 0" (use the system default resolution, usually 800x600).
#
#resolution 1024 768
+#resolution 3
# Launch specified OSes in graphics mode. By default, rEFInd switches
# to text mode and displays basic pre-launch information when launching
# for additional boot loaders, but it doesn't recurse into these directories.
# The also_scan_dirs token adds more directories to the scan list.
# Directories are specified relative to the volume's root directory. This
-# option applies to ALL the volumes that rEFInd scans. If a specified
-# directory doesn't exist, it's ignored (no error condition results).
-# The default is to scan no additional directories.
+# option applies to ALL the volumes that rEFInd scans UNLESS you include
+# a volume name and colon before the directory name, as in "myvol:/somedir"
+# to scan the somedir directory only on the filesystem named myvol. If a
+# specified directory doesn't exist, it's ignored (no error condition
+# results). The default is to scan the "boot" directory in addition to
+# various hard-coded directories.
+#
+#also_scan_dirs boot,ESP2:EFI/linux/kernels
+
+# Partitions to omit from scans. You must specify a volume by its
+# label, which you can obtain in an EFI shell by typing "vol", from
+# Linux by typing "blkid /dev/{devicename}", or by examining the
+# disk's label in various OSes' file browsers.
+# The default is "Recovery HD".
#
-#also_scan_dirs boot,EFI/linux/kernels
+#dont_scan_volumes "Recovery HD"
# Directories that should NOT be scanned for boot loaders. By default,
# rEFInd doesn't scan its own directory or the EFI/tools directory.
# or non-bootloader utilities provided by a hardware manufacturer. If
# a directory is listed both here and in also_scan_dirs, dont_scan_dirs
# takes precedence. Note that this blacklist applies to ALL the
-# filesystems that rEFInd scans, not just the ESP.
+# filesystems that rEFInd scans, not just the ESP, unless you precede
+# the directory name by a filesystem name, as in "myvol:EFI/somedir"
+# to exclude EFI/somedir from the scan on the myvol volume but not on
+# other volumes.
#
-#dont_scan_dirs EFI/boot,EFI/Dell
+#dont_scan_dirs ESP:/EFI/boot,EFI/Dell
# Files that should NOT be included as EFI boot loaders (on the
# first line of the display). If you're using a boot loader that
# all files in scanned directories with names that begin with "vmlinuz"
# or "bzImage" to be included as loaders, even if they lack ".efi"
# extensions. The drawback to this option is that it can pick up kernels
-# that lack EFI stub loader support and other files. Most notably, if you
-# want to give a kernel a custom icon by placing an icon with the kernel's
-# filename but a ".icns" extension in the same directory as the kernel, this
-# option will cause the icon file to show up as a non-functional loader tag.
-# Passing this option a "0" value causes kernels without ".efi" extensions
-# to NOT be scanned; passing it alone or with any other value causes all
-# kernels to be scanned.
+# that lack EFI stub loader support and other files. Passing this option
+# a "0" value causes kernels without ".efi" extensions to NOT be scanned;
+# passing it alone or with any other value causes all kernels to be scanned.
# Default is to NOT scan for kernels without ".efi" extensions.
#
scan_all_linux_kernels