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Originally written: 3/14/2012; last Web page update: -10/6/2012, referencing rEFInd 0.4.6
+10/7/2012, referencing rEFInd 0.4.7I'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!
diff --git a/docs/refind/configfile.html b/docs/refind/configfile.html index e512a12..e588c14 100644 --- a/docs/refind/configfile.html +++ b/docs/refind/configfile.html @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ href="mailto:rodsmith@rodsbooks.com">rodsmith@rodsbooks.comOriginally written: 3/14/2012; last Web page update: -10/6/2012, referencing rEFInd 0.4.6
+11/6/2012, referencing rEFInd 0.4.7I'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!
diff --git a/docs/refind/drivers.html b/docs/refind/drivers.html index b61b7c7..dc33d56 100644 --- a/docs/refind/drivers.html +++ b/docs/refind/drivers.html @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ href="mailto:rodsmith@rodsbooks.com">rodsmith@rodsbooks.comOriginally written: 4/19/2012; last Web page update: -10/6/2012, referencing rEFInd 0.4.6
+11/6/2012, referencing rEFInd 0.4.7I'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!
diff --git a/docs/refind/features.html b/docs/refind/features.html index 6fd8ecf..5acec24 100644 --- a/docs/refind/features.html +++ b/docs/refind/features.html @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ href="mailto:rodsmith@rodsbooks.com">rodsmith@rodsbooks.comOriginally written: 3/14/2012; last Web page update: -10/6/2012, referencing rEFInd 0.4.6
+11/6/2012, referencing rEFInd 0.4.7I'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!
@@ -139,6 +139,8 @@ lack a usable CSM.Originally written: 3/14/2012; last Web page update: -10/6/2012, referencing rEFInd 0.4.6
+11/6/2012, referencing rEFInd 0.4.7I'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!
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ href="mailto:rodsmith@rodsbooks.com">rodsmith@rodsbooks.comIf 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.
diff --git a/docs/refind/index.html b/docs/refind/index.html index 00a66f2..acee878 100644 --- a/docs/refind/index.html +++ b/docs/refind/index.html @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ href="mailto:rodsmith@rodsbooks.com">rodsmith@rodsbooks.comOriginally written: 3/14/2012; last Web page update: -10/6/2012, referencing rEFInd 0.4.6
+11/6/2012, referencing rEFInd 0.4.7I'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!
diff --git a/docs/refind/installing.html b/docs/refind/installing.html index 4f45ba2..c6481bd 100644 --- a/docs/refind/installing.html +++ b/docs/refind/installing.html @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ href="mailto:rodsmith@rodsbooks.com">rodsmith@rodsbooks.comOriginally written: 3/14/2012; last Web page update: -10/6/2012, referencing rEFInd 0.4.6
+11/6/2012, referencing rEFInd 0.4.7I'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!
@@ -491,13 +491,13 @@ $ ioreg -l -p IODeviceTree | grep firmware-abiI've received a few reports of a sluggish boot process (a delay of about 30 seconds before starting rEFInd) on some Macs after installing rEFInd. I've been unable to replicate this problem myself, and its true cause remains mysterious to me. I have found a Web forum post describing a possible fix. Be aware, though, that this procedure involves using the efibootmgr utility on Macs, which has been known to damage the firmware on some Macs. Other reports indicate that this problem has been fixed with recent kernels. Thus, I present this information cautiously and with a strong "use at your own risk" warning. If you care to proceed, I recommend you update your Linux kernel to the latest possible and then proceed as follows:
+I've received a few reports of a sluggish boot process (a delay of about 30 seconds before starting rEFInd) on some Macs after installing rEFInd. I've been unable to replicate this problem myself, and its true cause remains mysterious to me. I have found a Web forum post describing a possible fix. Be aware, though, that this procedure involves using the efibootmgr utility on Macs, which has been known to damage the firmware on some Macs. Other reports indicate that this problem has been fixed with 3.3.0 and later kernels. Thus, I present this information cautiously and with a strong "use at your own risk" warning. If you care to proceed, I recommend you update your Linux kernel to the latest possible version and then proceed as follows:
Originally written: 3/19/2012; last Web page update: -10/6/2012, referencing rEFInd 0.4.6
+11/6/2012, referencing rEFInd 0.4.7I'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!
diff --git a/docs/refind/revisions.html b/docs/refind/revisions.html index eb55ecb..530bd53 100644 --- a/docs/refind/revisions.html +++ b/docs/refind/revisions.html @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@by Roderick W. Smith, rodsmith@rodsbooks.com
-Last Web page update: 10/6/2012
+Last Web page update: 11/6/2012
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!
@@ -93,6 +93,8 @@ href="mailto:rodsmith@rodsbooks.com">rodsmith@rodsbooks.comOriginally written: 4/19/2012; last Web page update: -10/6/2012, referencing rEFInd 0.4.6
+11/6/2012, referencing rEFInd 0.4.7I'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!
diff --git a/docs/refind/todo.html b/docs/refind/todo.html index 1fc80b0..7d398be 100644 --- a/docs/refind/todo.html +++ b/docs/refind/todo.html @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ href="mailto:rodsmith@rodsbooks.com">rodsmith@rodsbooks.comOriginally written: 3/14/2012; last Web page update: -10/6/2012, referencing rEFInd 0.4.6
+11/6/2012, referencing rEFInd 0.4.7I'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!
@@ -246,6 +246,14 @@ href="mailto:rodsmith@rodsbooks.com">rodsmith@rodsbooks.comOriginally written: 3/14/2012; last Web page update: -11/5/2012, referencing rEFInd 0.4.6.3
+11/6/2012, referencing rEFInd 0.4.7I'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!
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ href="mailto:rodsmith@rodsbooks.com">rodsmith@rodsbooks.comThe last three of these options are always available by default, but the first depends on the presence of the EFI shell program file, as described earlier. To get the gptsync icon, you must install gptsync.efi and adjust the showtools option in refind.conf, as well.
-To launch an OS or utility, you should select its tag and then press the Enter key. If you press the Insert key, rEFInd will show a menu that may hold additional options, depending on the OS type. The following figure shows the submenu for Mac OS X. You can use this menu much like the main menu; move the cursor to select the option you want to use, then press the Enter key to launch the boot loader with the selected options. Press the Esc key or select Return to Main Menu to return to the main menu.
+To launch an OS or utility, you should select its tag and then press the Enter key. If you press the Insert key, rEFInd will show a menu that may hold additional options, depending on the OS type. The following figure shows the submenu for Mac OS X. You can use this menu much like the main menu; move the cursor to select the option you want to use, then press the Enter key to launch the boot loader with the selected options. Press the Esc key or select Return to Main Menu to return to the main menu. You can also press the Insert key again to edit your boot loader options. A simple text-mode line editor opens, enabling you to move a curso back and forth in the line with your arrow keys, delete text, and type in new text. If you want to boot with your edited options, press the Enter key. If you decide you picked the wrong entry, press the Esc key.