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href="mailto:rodsmith@rodsbooks.com">rodsmith@rodsbooks.com
Originally written: 3/14/2012; last Web page update:
-5/20/2012, referencing rEFInd 0.4.0
+10/6/2012, referencing rEFInd 0.4.6
I'm a technical writer and consultant specializing in Linux technologies. This Web page is provided free of charge and with no annoying outside ads; however, I did take time to prepare it, and Web hosting does cost money. If you find this Web page useful, please consider making a small donation to help keep this site up and running. Thanks!
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-- A
+
- A
source code zip file—This is useful if you want to
compile the software locally. Note that I use Linux with the GNU-EFI development
- tools to build the main rEFInd binary, and Linux with the TianoCore
- development kit for the drivers. rEFIt used an Intel/Microsoft
+ href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/tianocore/">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.
- A
+ href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.4.6/refind-bin-0.4.6.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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Which you install depends on your architecture, as described on the Installing rEFInd page.
+
+
- A
+ href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.4.6/refind-cd-0.4.6.zip/download">A
CD-R image file—This download contains the same files as
- the 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 (x86-64) or
- 32-bit (x86) 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 (x86-64)
+ or 32-bit (x86) 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
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-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.)
+If you're using a platform other than x86 or x86-64, 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.)
To extract the files from the zip file images I've provided, you'll need a tool such as unzip, which is included with Linux and Mac OS X. Numerous Windows utilities also support this format, such as PKZIP and 7-Zip.
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Getting rEFInd from Your OS's Repositories
-If you use Arch Linux, you can obtain rEFInd from its repositories, in both stable and git (experimental) releases. The git release is likely to include pre-release bug fixes and new features, but those features may be poorly tested or undocumented.
+If you use Arch Linux, you can obtain rEFInd from its repositories, in both stable and git (experimental) releases. The git release is likely to include pre-release bug fixes and new features, but those features may be poorly tested or undocumented.
You can also obtain rEFInd from the Nix Packages collection, which creates packages for a number of OSes using its own packaging system.