href="mailto:rodsmith@rodsbooks.com">rodsmith@rodsbooks.com</a></p>
<p>Originally written: 3/14/2012; last Web page update:
-6/21/2012, referencing rEFInd 0.4.3</p>
+11/6/2012, referencing rEFInd 0.4.7</p>
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<ul>
-<li><b><a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.4.3/refind-src-0.4.3.zip/download">A
+<li><b><a
+ href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.4.7/refind-src-0.4.7.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="http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnu-efi">GNU-EFI</a> development
- tools to build the main rEFInd binary, and Linux with the <a
- href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/tianocore/">TianoCore
- development kit</a> for the drivers. rEFIt used an Intel/Microsoft
+ href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/tianocore/">TianoCore EFI
+ Development Kit 2 (EDK2)</a> to build my binaries (below), although the
+ <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnu-efi">GNU-EFI</a>
+ development tools are also supported. rEFIt used an Intel/Microsoft
toolchain. Backporting rEFInd to that toolchain is theoretically
possible, but I've not attempted it.</li>
<li><b><a
- href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.4.3/refind-bin-0.4.3.zip/download">A
- binary zip file (built with GNU-EFI)</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 optical disc. This zip file package includes both
- <i>x</i>86 (aka IA32) and <i>x</i>86-64 (aka <i>x</i>64, AMD64, or
- EM64T) versions of rEFInd. Which you install depends on your
- architecture, as described on the <a href="installing.html">Installing
- rEFInd</a> page.</li>
-
+ href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.4.7/refind-bin-0.4.7.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
+ optical disc. This zip file package includes both <i>x</i>86 (aka IA32)
+ and <i>x</i>86-64 (aka <i>x</i>64, AMD64, or EM64T) versions of rEFInd.
+ Which you install depends on your architecture, as described on the <a
+ href="installing.html">Installing rEFInd</a> page.</li>
+
+<!--
<li><b><a
- href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.4.3/refind-bin-tiano-0.4.3.zip/download">A
- binary zip file (built with TianoCore EDK2)</a></b>—This package
- is just like the preceding one, except that it was built using the
- TianoCore EFI Development Kit 2 (EDK2) rather than the GNU-EFI that was
- used to build the other binary. In theory, the two should work
- identically. In practice, they might not. I originally used GNU-EFI to
- develop rEFInd, so it's the safer version; however, I would appreciate
- feedback about the TianoCore EDK2 build.</li>
+ href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.4.7/refind-bin-gnuefi-0.4.7.zip/download">A
+ binary zip file (built with GNU-EFI)</a></b>—This package is just
+ like the preceding one, except that it was built using the GNU-EFI
+ development kit rather than the TianoCore EFI Development Kit 2 (EDK2)
+ that was used to build the other binary. I originally used GNU-EFI to
+ develop rEFInd, but the GNU-EFI toolkit doesn't support the legacy
+ (BIOS-mode) boot calls on UEFI-based PCs, so I now consider the
+ TianoCore build to be the primary one. (Macs can boot legacy OSes using
+ either build.)</li>
+-->
<li><b><a
- href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.4.3/refind-cd-0.4.3.zip/download">A
+ href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.4.7/refind-cd-0.4.7.zip/download">A
CD-R image file</a></b>—This download contains the same files as
- the GNU-EFI 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 UEFI PCs,
- but fails on some older Macs.) If you like it, you can then copy the
- files from the CD-R to your hard disk. The files are named in such a
- way that the disc should boot on either 64-bit (<i>x</i>86-64) or
- 32-bit (<i>x</i>86) EFI computers. I've included an open source EFI
+ 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
+ UEFI PCs, but fails on some older Macs.) If you like it, you can then
+ copy the files from the CD-R to your hard disk. The files are named in
+ such a way that the disc should boot on either 64-bit (<i>x</i>86-64)
+ or 32-bit (<i>x</i>86) EFI computers. I've included an open source EFI
shell program on this disc that's not included in the binary zip file,
so that you can access an EFI shell from a bootable disc even if you
don't have an EFI shell available from your regular hard disk. This can
</ul>
-<p>If you're using another platform, you can give rEFInd a try; however, you'll need to build it from source code yourself or track down a binary from another source. (Perhaps by the time you read this it will be included in Linux distributions built for unusual CPUs.)</p>
+<p>If you're using a platform other than <i>x</i>86 or <i>x</i>86-64, you can give rEFInd a try; however, you'll need to build it from source code yourself or track down a binary from another source. (Perhaps by the time you read this it will be included in Linux distributions built for unusual CPUs.)</p>
<p>To extract the files from the zip file images I've provided, you'll need a tool such as <tt>unzip</tt>, which is included with Linux and Mac OS X. Numerous Windows utilities also support this format, such as <a href="http://www.pkware.com/software/pkzip/">PKZIP</a> and <a href="http://www.7-zip.org/">7-Zip.</a></p>
<h2>Getting rEFInd from Your OS's Repositories</h2>
-<p>If you use Arch Linux, you can obtain rEFInd from its repositories, in both <a href="http://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/any/refind-efi-x86_64/">stable</a> and <a href="https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=59810">git (experimental)</a> releases. The git release is likely to include pre-release bug fixes and new features, but those features may be poorly tested or undocumented.</p>
+<p>If you use Arch Linux, you can obtain rEFInd from its repositories, in both <a href="https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/any/refind-efi/">stable</a> and <a href="https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/refind-efi-tianocore-git/">git (experimental)</a> releases. The git release is likely to include pre-release bug fixes and new features, but those features may be poorly tested or undocumented.</p>
<p>You can also obtain rEFInd from the <a href="http://nixos.org/nixpkgs/">Nix Packages collection,</a> which creates packages for a number of OSes using its own packaging system.</p>