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href="mailto:rodsmith@rodsbooks.com">rodsmith@rodsbooks.com
Originally written: 3/14/2012; last Web page update:
-1/8/2013, referencing rEFInd 0.6.4
+5/5/2013, referencing rEFInd 0.6.10
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@@ -98,7 +136,7 @@ href="mailto:rodsmith@rodsbooks.com">rodsmith@rodsbooks.com
- A
+ href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.6.10/refind-src-0.6.10.zip/download">A
source code zip file—This is useful if you want to compile
the software locally. Note that I use Linux with the TianoCore EFI
@@ -107,17 +145,24 @@ href="mailto:rodsmith@rodsbooks.com">rodsmith@rodsbooks.com
development tools are also supported.
- A
+ href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.6.10/refind-bin-0.6.10.zip/download">A
binary zip file—Download this if you want to install
rEFInd and/or its filesystem drivers on an x86 or x86-64
computer and have no need to test rEFInd first by booting it on an
optical disc. This zip file package includes both x86 (aka IA32)
and x86-64 (aka x64, AMD64, or EM64T) versions of rEFInd.
Which you install depends on your architecture, as described on the Installing rEFInd page.
+ href="installing.html">Installing rEFInd page. Some users of Arch
+ Linux have reported problems booting some specific Arch Linux kernels
+ with rEFInd and some other tools. For them, a variant
+ package exists in which the x86-64 binary was compiled with
+ GNU-EFI rather than the usual TianoCore EDK2. This change helps some
+ users with this problem; but using GNU-EFI also means that this version
+ can't launch BIOS-mode OSes.
- A
+ href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.6.10/refind-0.6.10-1.x86_64.rpm/download">A
binary RPM file—If you use an RPM-based x86-64
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 an
@@ -126,13 +171,13 @@ href="mailto:rodsmith@rodsbooks.com">rodsmith@rodsbooks.com
rEFInd page) as part of the installation process. Distribution
maintainers can examine the refind.spec file in the source
package and tweak it to their needs. The source
+ href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.6.10/refind-0.6.10-1.src.rpm/download">source
RPM file might or might not build on your system as-is; it relies
on assumptions about the locations of the GNU-EFI development
files.
- A
+ href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.6.10/refind_0.6.10-1_amd64.deb/download">A
binary Debian package—If you use an x86-64 version
of Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, or another Debian-based distribution, you can
install from this package, which was converted from the binary RPM
@@ -154,7 +199,7 @@ href="mailto:rodsmith@rodsbooks.com">rodsmith@rodsbooks.com
- A
+ href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.6.10/refind-cd-0.6.10.zip/download">A
CD-R image file—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
@@ -178,7 +223,7 @@ on /dev/sdd. This procedure should work even on a BIOS-booted
computer.
- A
+ href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.6.10/refind-flashdrive-0.6.10.zip/download">A
USB flash drive image file—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 dd or some
@@ -216,6 +261,14 @@ computer.
Tianocore toolkit, and so support booting BIOS/legacy boot loaders on
UEFI-based PCs.
+- ALT Linux—This RPM-based distribution is experimenting with
+ using rEFInd on EFI-based computers. As I write, the ALT developers haven't
+ yet nailed down booting from an optical disc (it's a tricky and delicate
+ task, especially when preparing a "hybrid" image), but they're working on
+ the problem. They have an RPM of rEFInd; see this page
+ for details.
+
- Fat
Dog—This variant of Puppy Linux uses a combination of
rEFInd and GRUB 2 to boot its installation medium in EFI mode and