href="mailto:rodsmith@rodsbooks.com">rodsmith@rodsbooks.com</a></p>
<p>Originally written: 3/14/2012; last Web page update:
-4/24/2016, referencing rEFInd 0.10.3</p>
+10/9/2016, referencing rEFInd 0.10.4</p>
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immediate purchase list) or until somebody with such hardware and
the necessary skills submits a fix. (Note that a fix could
conceivably involve passing options to the OS X boot loader or
- something else that would require trivial or no changes to
- rEFInd.)</li>
+ something else that would require trivial or no changes to rEFInd.)
+ I've heard that this problem affects not just rEFInd, but also GRUB,
+ and even Windows when dual-booting on a Mac; see <a
+ href="https://youtu.be/tgTMxB-ffjM?t=3m44s">this YouTube video</a>
+ and <a
+ href="http://askubuntu.com/questions/866920/limited-resolution-booting-with-refind-on-imac-5k">This
+ AskUbuntu question and answers,</a> for instance.</li>
<li>Some EFIs have bugs that cause the allegedly case-insensitive
<tt>StriCmp()</tt> function to perform a case-sensitive comparison.
detected boot programs and create a set of manual boot stanzas for
them, so that they can be modified manually.</li>
- <li>Support for touchscreens and/or configurable buttons for rEFInd's
- actions would enable use of rEFInd on tablet computers that lack
- complete keyboards.</li>
+ <li>Better support for touchscreens and/or configurable buttons for
+ rEFInd's actions would enable use of rEFInd on tablet computers that
+ lack complete keyboards. (Version 0.10.4 supports <i>some</i>
+ touchscreens, but this feature relies on support in the firmware,
+ which is not universally present.)</li>
<li>The ability to rotate the display for users who rotate their
monitors or who use tablets would be helpful.</li>