-0.8.7 (?/??/2015):
-------------------
+0.8.7 (3/1/2015):
+-----------------
- Added identification of XFS as filesystem type in volume descriptions.
href="mailto:rodsmith@rodsbooks.com">rodsmith@rodsbooks.com</a></p>\r
\r
<p>Originally written: 3/14/2012; last Web page update:\r
-2/8/2015, referencing rEFInd 0.8.6</p>\r
+3/1/2015, referencing rEFInd 0.8.7</p>\r
\r
\r
<p>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!</p>\r
href="mailto:rodsmith@rodsbooks.com">rodsmith@rodsbooks.com</a></p>
<p>Originally written: 3/14/2012; last Web page update:
-2/8/2015, referencing rEFInd 0.8.6</p>
+3/1/2015, referencing rEFInd 0.8.7</p>
<p>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!</p>
<li class="tight"><a href="#adjusting">Adjusting the Global Configuration</a></li>
-<li class="tight"><a href="#stanzas">Creating OS Stanzas</a></li>
+<li class="tight"><a href="#stanzas">Creating Manual Boot Stanzas</a></li>
<li class="tight"><a href="#submenu">Creating Submenu Entries</a></li>
<p>This example sets a timeout of 5 seconds; loads a custom graphic file called <tt>custom.bmp</tt> from the directory in which the rEFInd binary resides; scans the <tt>drivers</tt> and <tt>EFI/tools/drivers</tt> directories for EFI drivers; uses manual boot loader configuration but also scans for external EFI boot loaders and EFI boot loaders on optical discs; and sets the default boot loader to the first loader found that includes the string <tt>elilo</tt>. Of course, since this file specifies use of manual boot loader configuration, it's not complete; you'll need to add at least one OS stanza to be able to boot from anything but an external disk or optical drive, as described shortly.</p>
<a name="stanzas">
-<h2>Creating OS Stanzas</h2>
+<h2>Creating Manual Boot Stanzas</h2>
</a>
-<p>OS stanzas in rEFInd are similar to those in GRUB Legacy, GRUB 2, or ELILO. You can use them to add EFI boot loaders to those that are auto-detected. rEFInd does not yet support manual boot stanzas for BIOS-mode boot loaders. You also cannot modify the auto-detected options; if you just want to tweak one OS's configuration, you have several options, none of which is ideal:</p>
+<p class="sidebar"><b>Note:</b> Don't create manual boot stanzas unless you need to do so! Many people try to create them when rEFInd's auto-detection mechanisms will do the job just as well and with less hassle and chance of error. (Note that you can pass kernel options to a Linux kernel in the <tt>/boot/refind_linux.conf</tt> file; see the <a href="linux.html">Methods of Booting Linux</a> page for details.) Efforts to create manual boot stanzas when auto-detection can do the job just create pointless work for yourself!</p>
+
+<p>Manual boot stanzas in rEFInd are similar to those in GRUB Legacy, GRUB 2, or ELILO. You can use them to add EFI boot loaders to those that are auto-detected. rEFInd does not yet support manual boot stanzas for BIOS-mode boot loaders. You also cannot modify the auto-detected options; if you just want to tweak one OS's configuration, you have several options:</p>
<ul>
+<li>You can use the <tt>dont_scan_volumes</tt>, <tt>dont_scan_dirs</tt>, or <tt>dont_scan_files</tt> options in <tt>refind.conf</tt> to hide the tag you want to modify, then create a manual boot stanza to replace it.</li>
+
<li>You can move or rename the boot loader file for the boot loader you want to tweak.</li>
<li>You can disable all auto-detection options and add manual configurations for all your boot loaders, even those that work fine when auto-detected.</li>
}
</pre>
-<p>The main menu item for this entry won't look different with the submenus defined than without them; but if you press the Insert key, you'll see the submenu items:</p>
+<p>The main menu item for this entry won't look different with the submenus defined than without them; but if you press the F2 or Insert key, you'll see the submenu items:</p>
- <br /><center><img src="manual-submenu.png" align="center" width="372"
- height="272" alt="Manually defining submenus enables you to customize
+ <br /><center><img src="manual-submenu.png" align="center" width="403"
+ height="411" alt="Manually defining submenus enables you to customize
your boot options." border=2></center><br />
<p>The main menu item appears at the top of the list—<tt>Run bzImage-3.3.0-rc7</tt> in this example. The three submenus defined in this example's configuration file appear next, enabling you to launch in single-user mode, run the 3.3.0 release kernel, or boot via ELILO, respectively. Submenus also include an item called <tt>Return to Main Menu</tt> that does just as it says. (Alternatively, you can return to the main menu by pressing the Esc key.)</p>
href="mailto:rodsmith@rodsbooks.com">rodsmith@rodsbooks.com</a></p>
<p>Originally written: 4/19/2012; last Web page update:
-2/8/2015, referencing rEFInd 0.8.6</p>
+3/1/2015, referencing rEFInd 0.8.7</p>
<p>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!</p>
href="mailto:rodsmith@rodsbooks.com">rodsmith@rodsbooks.com</a></p>
<p>Originally written: 3/14/2012; last Web page update:
-2/8/2015, referencing rEFInd 0.8.6</p>
+3/1/2015, referencing rEFInd 0.8.7</p>
<p>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!</p>
href="mailto:rodsmith@rodsbooks.com">rodsmith@rodsbooks.com</a></p>
<p>Originally written: 3/14/2012; last Web page update:
-2/8/2015, referencing rEFInd 0.8.6</p>
+3/1/2015, referencing rEFInd 0.8.7</p>
<p>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!</p>
<ul>
<li><b><a
- href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.8.6/refind-bin-0.8.6.zip/download">A
+ href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.8.7/refind-bin-0.8.7.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
href="installing.html">Installing rEFInd</a> page. Some users of Arch
Linux have reported problems booting some specific Arch Linux kernels
with rEFInd and some other tools. For them, a <a
- href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.8.6/refind-bin-gnuefi-0.8.6.zip/download">variant
+ href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.8.7/refind-bin-gnuefi-0.8.7.zip/download">variant
package</a> exists in which the <i>x</i>86-64 binary was compiled with
GNU-EFI rather than the usual TianoCore EDK2. This change helps some
users with this problem.</li>
<li><b><a
- href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.8.6/refind-0.8.6-1.x86_64.rpm/download">A
+ href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.8.7/refind-0.8.7-1.x86_64.rpm/download">A
binary RPM file</a></b>—If you use an RPM-based <i>x</i>86-64
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
rEFInd</a> page) as part of the installation process. Distribution
maintainers can examine the <tt>refind.spec</tt> file in the source
package and tweak it to their needs. The <a
- href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.8.6/refind-0.8.6-1.src.rpm/download">source
+ href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.8.7/refind-0.8.7-1.src.rpm/download">source
RPM file</a> might or might not build on your system as-is; it relies
on assumptions about the locations of the GNU-EFI development
files.</li>
<li><b><a
- href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.8.6/refind_0.8.6-1_amd64.deb/download">A
+ href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.8.7/refind_0.8.7-1_amd64.deb/download">A
binary Debian package</a></b>—If you use an <i>x</i>86-64 version
of Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, or another Debian-based distribution, you can
install from this package, which was converted from the binary RPM
<p class="sidebar"><b>Note:</b> At the moment, neither the bootable CD-R image file nor the bootable USB flash drive image file supports booting with Secure Boot active. The x86-64 version of the <a href="http://en.altlinux.org/Rescue">ALT Linux Rescue disc</a> uses a Secure Boot-enabled rEFInd, though, so you may find that useful in some situations.</p>
<li><b><a
- href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.8.6/refind-cd-0.8.6.zip/download">A
+ href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.8.7/refind-cd-0.8.7.zip/download">A
CD-R image file</a></b>—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
computer.</p>
<li><b><a
- href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.8.6/refind-flashdrive-0.8.6.zip/download">A
+ href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.8.7/refind-flashdrive-0.8.7.zip/download">A
USB flash drive image file</a></b>—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 <tt>dd</tt> or some
other low-level disk copying utility.</li>
<li><b><a
- href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.8.6/refind-src-0.8.6.zip/download">A
+ href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.8.7/refind-src-0.8.7.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="https://sourceforge.net/projects/tianocore/">TianoCore EFI
href="mailto:rodsmith@rodsbooks.com">rodsmith@rodsbooks.com</a></p>
<p>Originally written: 3/14/2012; last Web page update:
-2/8/2015, referencing rEFInd 0.8.6</p>
+3/1/2015, referencing rEFInd 0.8.7</p>
<p>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!</p>
href="mailto:rodsmith@rodsbooks.com">rodsmith@rodsbooks.com</a></p>
<p>Originally written: 3/14/2012; last Web page update:
-2/8/2015, referencing rEFInd 0.8.6</p>
+3/1/2015, referencing rEFInd 0.8.7</p>
<p>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!</p>
<p>I provide RPM and Debian package files for rEFInd; and starting with version 0.8.1, I'm maintaining an Ubuntu PPA for rEFInd. If you have a working RPM-based or Debian-based Linux installation that boots in EFI mode, using one of these files is likely to be the easiest way to install rEFInd: You need only download the file and issue an appropriate installation command. In some cases, double-clicking the package in your file manager will install it. If that doesn't work, a command like the following will install the RPM on an RPM-based system:</p>
-<pre class="listing"># <tt class="userinput">rpm -Uvh refind-0.8.4-1.x86_64.rpm</tt></pre>
+<pre class="listing"># <tt class="userinput">rpm -Uvh refind-0.8.7-1.x86_64.rpm</tt></pre>
<p>On a Debian-based system, the equivalent command is:</p>
-<pre class="listing"># <tt class="userinput">dpkg -i refind_0.8.4-1_amd64.deb</tt></pre>
+<pre class="listing"># <tt class="userinput">dpkg -i refind_0.8.7-1_amd64.deb</tt></pre>
<p>Either command produces output similar to that described for <a href="#installsh">using the <tt>install.sh</tt> script,</a> so you can check it for error messages and other signs of trouble. The package file installs rEFInd and registers it with the EFI to be the default boot loader. The script that runs as part of the installation process tries to determine if you're using Secure Boot, and if so it will try to configure rEFInd to launch using shim; however, this won't work correctly on all systems. Ubuntu 12.10 users who are booting with Secure Boot active should be wary, since the resulting installation will probably try to use Ubuntu's version of shim, which won't work correctly with rEFInd. The shim program provided with more recent versions of Ubuntu should work correctly.</p>
href="mailto:rodsmith@rodsbooks.com">rodsmith@rodsbooks.com</a></p>
<p>Originally written: 3/19/2012; last Web page update:
-2/8/2015, referencing rEFInd 0.8.6</p>
+3/1/2015, referencing rEFInd 0.8.7</p>
<p>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!</p>
<p class="subhead">by Roderick W. Smith, <a
href="mailto:rodsmith@rodsbooks.com">rodsmith@rodsbooks.com</a></p>
-<p>Last Web page update: 2/8/2015</p>
+<p>Last Web page update: 3/1/2015</p>
<p>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!</p>
<ul>
+<li><b>0.8.7 (3/1/2015)</b>—This release provides bug fixes and refinements to existing features. Several changes should reduce the odds of rEFInd crashing because of assorted problems. Other changes improve Secure Boot handling, including improved Secure Boot detection in <tt>install.sh</tt>, recognition of <tt>KeyTool.efi</tt> and <tt>KeyTool-signed.efi</tt> as MOK manager utilities, and reporting of Secure Boot status for <i>x</i>86 (IA-32) systems in the rEFInd information screen. Filesystem detection is improved (again), and XFS has been added as a known filesystem. Detection of FreeBSD's BIOS-mode boot loader is improved, which should give more Mac users the right OS icon when booting FreeBSD in BIOS mode. Finally, I'm <i><b>deprecating</b></i> the use of <tt>fs<tt class="variable">x</tt>:</tt> notation for referring to filesystems. The numbering of filesystems is simply unreliable, and better alternatives (the use of partition GUIDs, partition names, and filesystem names) have been added in previous releases. The <tt>fs<tt class="variable">x</tt>:</tt> code remains in rEFInd, and if it's working for you, you can continue to use it; but sooner or later I'll remove that code, so you're advised to change your manual boot stanzas and other options that use it before that happens.</li>
+
<li><b>0.8.6 (2/8/2015)</b>—Most (but not all) of this release's changes focus on Windows dual-booting and Mac-specific issues. There's a new Windows 8 icon, which is now used by default as the Windows icon, although the old icon remains available and is used for Windows XP and earlier boots on Macs. If the NTFS driver is loaded, rEFInd will now exclude non-bootable NTFS volumes from the Mac boot list (this change does not affect UEFI-based PCs). A bug that caused misidentification of whole disks and NTFS volumes as being FAT has been fixed (again, this problem affected Macs, not PCs). A couple of Mac-specific <tt>install.sh</tt> bugs have been fixed, resulting in more reliable identification of the ESP and of the installation directory. Previous versions ignored a volume name of "HFS+ volume" because that name was produced by earlier versions of the rEFInd HFS+ driver for all HFS+ volumes; but the current HFS+ driver produces a real volume name, so I've removed that special case from the code. I've removed the r472 rEFIt commit, introduced in 0.8.5, because it was causing some BMP files to fail to load. Finally, the <tt>hideui</tt> token in <tt>refind.conf</tt> now accepts a value of <tt>badges</tt>, which has the effect of hiding the disk-type badges associated with OS launch icons.</li>
<li><b>0.8.5 (2/1/2015)</b>—The biggest single change with this version is a new NTFS driver contributed by Samuel Liao, who also contributed the Btrfs driver. Samuel also contributed some miscellaneous driver fixes and a change to the way the keyboard is handled, which improves responsiveness on some systems. This version also improves the way <tt>install.sh</tt> works under OS X. In particular, it tweaks the <tt>bless</tt> command in a way that may eliminate startup delays and it does a better job of detecting and replacing existing rEFInd installations (on the ESP), rather than blindly writing to <tt>EFI/BOOT</tt>. Finally, this version applies <a href="https://sourceforge.net/p/refit/code/commit_browser">commits from late in rEFIt's history:</a> r467, which improves handling of BIOS/legacy boots from the second and subsequent disks on Macs; and r472, which enables handling BMP images that are not vertically flipped. These commits were not present in rEFInd from the start because the starting point for rEFInd was a Debian source package taken from a slightly earlier version.</li>
href="mailto:rodsmith@rodsbooks.com">rodsmith@rodsbooks.com</a></p>
<p>Originally written: 11/13/2012; last Web page update:
-2/16/2015, referencing rEFInd 0.8.6</p>
+3/1/2015, referencing rEFInd 0.8.7</p>
<p>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!</p>
<hr />
-<p class="sidebar"><b>Note:</b> My <a href="http://www.rodsbooks.com/efi-bootloaders/">Managing EFI Boot Loaders for Linux</a> Web page includes a much more detailed description of Secure Boot in its <a href="http://www.rodsbooks.com/efi-bootloaders/secureboot.html">Dealing with Secure Boot</a> sub-page. You should consult this page if you want to disable Secure Boot, generate your own keys, or perform other such tasks.</p>
+<p class="sidebar"><b>Note:</b> My <a href="http://www.rodsbooks.com/efi-bootloaders/">Managing EFI Boot Loaders for Linux</a> Web page includes a much more detailed description of Secure Boot in two of its subpages. Consult <a href="http://www.rodsbooks.com/efi-bootloaders/secureboot.html">Dealing with Secure Boot</a> for more information on disabling Secure Boot, using Shim, and using PreLoader; and read <a href="http://www.rodsbooks.com/efi-bootloaders/controlling-sb.html">Controlling Secure Boot</a> for more information on using your own keys instead of or in addition to those that came with your computer.</p>
<div class="navbar">
href="mailto:rodsmith@rodsbooks.com">rodsmith@rodsbooks.com</a></p>
<p>Originally written: 4/19/2012; last Web page update:
-2/8/2015, referencing rEFInd 0.8.6</p>
+3/1/2015, referencing rEFInd 0.8.7</p>
<p>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!</p>
href="mailto:rodsmith@rodsbooks.com">rodsmith@rodsbooks.com</a></p>
<p>Originally written: 3/14/2012; last Web page update:
-2/8/2015, referencing rEFInd 0.8.6</p>
+3/1/2015, referencing rEFInd 0.8.7</p>
<p>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!</p>
href="mailto:rodsmith@rodsbooks.com">rodsmith@rodsbooks.com</a></p>
<p>Originally written: 3/14/2012; last Web page update:
-2/8/2015, referencing rEFInd 0.8.6</p>
+3/1/2015, referencing rEFInd 0.8.7</p>
<p>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!</p>
height="552" alt="rEFInd presents a GUI menu for selecting your boot
OS." border=2 /></center> <br />
-<p>If you don't press any key before the timeout (shown below the icons and description line) expires, the default boot loader will launch. This is normally the item that you launched the last time rEFInd ran, but you can adjust the default by editing the configuration file. (In this example, it's the Ubuntu Linux loader, which is further identified by text above the timeout as <i>vmlinuz-3.5.0-27-generic from UBUNTU BOOT</i>.)</p>
+<p>If you don't press a key before the timeout expires, the default boot loader will launch. (The timeout is shown beneath the description line until you press a key—note that it's absent from the preceding screen shot.) This is normally the item that you launched the last time rEFInd ran, but you can adjust the default by editing the configuration file. (In this example, it's the Ubuntu Linux loader, which is further identified by text as <i>boot\vmlinuz-3.16.0-31-generic.efi.signed from 49 GiB ext4 volume</i>.)</p>
-<p>This display is dominated by the central set of OS <i>tags</i> (icons), which in this example includes tags for an unknown boot loader, OS X, Windows, and Ubuntu. All but the first of these are on hard disks, but the unknown boot loader is on an optical disc, as revealed by the small icons (known as <i>badges</i>) in the lower-right corner of the OS icons.</p>
+<p>This display is dominated by the central set of OS <i>tags</i> (icons), which in this example includes tags for Windows, OS X, Ubuntu, and an unknown Linux distribution. All but the last of these are on hard disks, but the unknown Linux boot loader is on an optical disc, as revealed by the small icons (known as <i>badges</i>) in the lower-right corner of the OS icons.</p>
-<p>In this example, the Ubuntu tag is selected. You can move the selection left by pressing the left arrow key and right by pressing the right arrow key. If your system has many boot loaders, an arrow icon will appear to the right and/or left of the boot loader list, indicating that the boot loader list will scroll when you move off the edge. (Such arrows are visible to the right and left in the sample screen.) You can scroll the list by one line full of icons by using the Page Up or Page Down keys to move left and right, respectively. Moving past the final selection or using the down arrow key moves the selection to the second row of small tags, which launch ancillary programs or perform special actions. If you've moved the selection cursor to the second row, pressing the up arrow key or scrolling past the left edge of the second row moves the cursor to the top row. In this figure, these five tags are present:</p>
+<p>In this example, the Ubuntu tag is selected. You can move the selection left by pressing the left arrow key and right by pressing the right arrow key. If your system has many boot loaders, an arrow icon will appear to the right and/or left of the boot loader list, indicating that the boot loader list will scroll when you move off the edge. (Such an arrow is visible to the right in the sample screen.) You can scroll the list by one line full of icons by using the Page Up or Page Down keys to move left and right, respectively. Moving past the final selection or using the down arrow key moves the selection to the second row of small tags, which launch ancillary programs or perform special actions. If you've moved the selection cursor to the second row, pressing the up arrow key or scrolling past the left edge of the second row moves the cursor to the top row. In this figure, these six tags are present:</p>
<ul>
<li>Launch the EFI shell</li>
-<li>Launch the tool to create a hybrid MBR (<tt>gptsync</tt>)
+<li>Launch the tool to partition a disk (<tt>gptsync</tt> or
+ <tt>gdisk</tt>)</li>
+
+<li>Launch a tool to edit Secure Boot keys (<tt>MokManager</tt>,
+ <tt>HashTool</tt>, or <tt>KeyTool</tt>)
<li>Produce an information page</li>
</ul>
-<p>By default, the options to display an information page, shutdown the computer, and reboot the computer are present. Options to launch a shell, launch the Apple recovery utility, and launch the Machine Owner Key (MOK) utility will also appear automatically if these utilities are installed. Options to launch the hybrid MBR tool and to exit from rEFInd are not displayed by default; you must edit the configuration file to enable these features, or to disable those that are displayed by default.</p>
+<p>By default, the options to display an information page, shutdown the computer, and reboot the computer are present. Options to launch a shell, launch <tt>gdisk</tt>, launch a memory test utility, launch the Apple recovery utility, launch the Windows recovery utility, and launch a Secure Boot key management utility will also appear automatically if these utilities are installed. The tag to reboot into the firmware appears if your firmware supports this feature. Options to launch the hybrid MBR tool (<tt>gptsync</tt>) and to exit from rEFInd are not displayed by default; you must edit the configuration file to enable these features, or to disable those that are displayed by default if you don't want them.</p>
<p>To launch an OS or utility, you should select its tag and then press the Enter key or the space bar.</p>
<p>Ordinarily, rEFInd displays tags for OSes it finds on internal hard disks, external hard disks (including USB flash drives, CF disks, and so on), and optical discs. Sometimes, though, the firmware hasn't had time to fully examine these devices by the time rEFInd starts; or you might only insert or plug in the media after rEFInd appears. In these cases, you can press the Esc key to have rEFInd re-read its configuration file and re-scan your media for boot loaders. This action can take a few seconds to complete, so be patient. You can also use this feature to detect OSes if you launch a shell and use it to load a driver or edit the <tt>refind.conf</tt> file. If you regularly need to press Esc, you might look into the <tt>scan_delay</tt> configuration file option, described on the <a href="configfile.html">Configuring the Boot Manager</a> page.</p>
-<p>On some computers, the firmware doesn't mount external USB media unless you adjust a firmware option or use the EFI's own boot manager prior to launching rEFInd. If you don't see external media appear in rEFInd's list, consult your computer's manual or examine its firmware to locate a relevant option.</p>
+<p>On some computers, the firmware doesn't mount external USB media unless you adjust a firmware option or use the EFI's own boot manager prior to launching rEFInd. If you don't see external media appear in rEFInd's list, consult your computer's manual or examine its firmware to locate a relevant option. This option is often called <i>fast boot</i> or something similar; when enabled, the computer doesn't activate most USB devices because doing so takes a second or two.</p>
<a name="boot_options">
<h2>Adjusting Boot Options</h2>
// FUTURE: use STR(), #define Print printf
#define CopyMem memcpy
-#define SetMem memset
#define CompareMem memcmp
#define copy_guid(destguid, srcguid) (memcpy(destguid, srcguid, 16))
if (AboutMenu.EntryCount == 0) {
AboutMenu.TitleImage = BuiltinIcon(BUILTIN_ICON_FUNC_ABOUT);
- AddMenuInfoLine(&AboutMenu, L"rEFInd Version 0.8.6.6");
+ AddMenuInfoLine(&AboutMenu, L"rEFInd Version 0.8.6.7");
AddMenuInfoLine(&AboutMenu, L"");
AddMenuInfoLine(&AboutMenu, L"Copyright (c) 2006-2010 Christoph Pfisterer");
AddMenuInfoLine(&AboutMenu, L"Copyright (c) 2012-2015 Roderick W. Smith");
