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href="mailto:rodsmith@rodsbooks.com">rodsmith@rodsbooks.com
Originally written: 3/14/2012; last Web page update:
-12/21/2012, referencing rEFInd 0.6.1
+12/30/2012, referencing rEFInd 0.6.2
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Getting rEFInd from Sourceforge
-You can find the rEFInd source code and binary packages at its SourceForge page. Note that rEFInd is OS-independent—it runs before the OS, so you download the same binary package for any OS. You can obtain rEFInd in four different forms:
+You can find the rEFInd source code and binary packages at its SourceForge page. Note that rEFInd is OS-independent—it runs before the OS, so you download the same binary package for any OS. You can obtain rEFInd in several different forms:
- A
- source code zip file—This is useful if you want to
- compile the software locally. Note that I use Linux with the 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
- Development Kit 2 (EDK2) to build my binaries (below), although the
- GNU-EFI
- 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.
+ Development Kit 2 (EDK2) to build my binary zip package (below),
+ although the GNU-EFI
+ development tools are also supported.
- A
+ href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.6.2/refind-bin-0.6.2.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
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- A
+ href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.6.2/refind-cd-0.6.2.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
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be an extremely valuable diagnostic tool if you know how to use an EFI
shell.
+- Source
+ and binary
+ RPM files—These files are intended more as demonstrations than
+ as practical packages. If you use an RPM-based x86-64 Linux system,
+ though, you can install the binary RPM package. (I don't provide an
+ equivalent 32-bit package.) Note, however, that this package's files are
+ not signed for use with shim or Secure Boot, and it installs four
+ filesystem drivers, which can slow down the boot process. It was also
+ compiled with GNU-EFI, which means that it lacks the ability to boot
+ BIOS-based OSes. Thus, I recommend using the binary zip file instead. If
+ you do use the RPM file, be aware that it installs rEFInd directly to
+ /boot/efi/EFI/refind, so your ESP must be mounted at
+ /boot/efi. The post-installation script, which adds rEFInd to the
+ NVRAM entries, requires efibootmgr and is likely to fail if you
+ try to install from a live CD. Distribution maintainers can examine the
+ refind.spec file in the source package and tweak it to their
+ needs and to eliminate some or all of these deficiencies.
+
- Source code via
git—If you want to peruse the source code in your Web
browser or get the very latest version (including pre-release bug fixes
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as well download the rEFInd binary .zip file from Sourceforge
instead.
-- Slackware—Although it doesn't seem to be an official build, this site has links to rEFInd
- binary packages for Slackware 13.37 and 14.0.
+- Slackware—Although it doesn't seem to provide an official
+ build, this
+ site has links to rEFInd binary packages for Slackware 13.37 and
+ 14.0.