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12 <h1>The rEFInd Boot Manager:
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17 <p>Originally written:
3/
14/
2012; last Web page update:
3/
23/
2012, referencing rEFInd
0.2.2</p>
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87 <p>This page is part of the documentation for the rEFInd boot manager. If a Web search has brought you here, you may want to start at the
<a href=
"index.html">main page.
</a></p>
91 <p><b>Note:
</b> I consider rEFInd to be
<i>alpha-quality software!
</i> Although rEFIt
0.14, upon which rEFInd is based, is beta-quality, I've changed a great deal of the code, and I'm still learning about it. I'm discovering bugs (old and new) and fixing them every day or two. That said, rEFInd is a usable program in its current form on many systems. If you have problems, feel free to drop me a line.
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93 <p>You can find the rEFInd source code and binary packages at
<a href=
"http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/refind/">its SourceForge page.
</a> 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 three different forms:
</p>
98 href=
"http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.2.2/refind-src-0.2.2.zip/download">A
99 source code zip file
</a></b>—This is useful if you want to
100 compile the software locally. Note that I use Linux with the
<a
101 href=
"http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnu-efi">GNU-EFI
</a> development
102 tools. rEFIt used an Intel/Microsoft toolchain. Backporting rEFInd to
103 that toolchain is theoretically possible, but I've not attempted
107 href=
"http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.2.2/refind-bin-0.2.2.zip/download">A
108 binary zip file
</a></b>—Download this if you want to install
109 rEFInd on an x86 or x86-
64 computer and have no need to test rEFInd
110 first by booting it on an optical disc. This zip file package includes
111 both x86 (aka IA32) and x86-
64 (aka x64, AMD64, or EM64T) versions of
112 rEFInd. Which you install depends on your architecture, as described on
113 the
<a href=
"installing.html">Installing rEFInd
</a> page.
</li>
116 href=
"http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.2.2/refind-cd-0.2.2.zip/download">A
117 CD-R image file
</a></b>—This download contains the same files as
118 the zip file, but you can burn it to a CD-R to test rEFInd without
119 installing it first. If you like it, you can then copy the files from
120 the CD-R to your hard disk. The files are named in such a way that the
121 disc should boot on either
64-bit (x86-
64) or
32-bit (x86) EFI
122 computers. Note that there's a bug that causes rEFInd to complain about
123 invalid parameters while scanning various directories. You can safely
124 ignore this message, but you'll need to press a key to dismiss it.
</li>
128 <p>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.)
</p>
130 <p>If you download a zip file, you'll need to extract the files with a tool such as
<tt>unzip
</tt>, which is included with Linux and Mac OS X. Numerous Windows utilities also support this format, such as
<a href=
"http://www.pkware.com/software/pkzip/">PKZIP
</a> and
<a href=
"http://www.7-zip.org/">7-Zip.
</a></p>
134 <p>copyright
© 2012 by Roderick W. Smith
</p>
136 <p>This document is licensed under the terms of the
<a href=
"FDL-1.3.txt">GNU Free Documentation License (FDL), version
1.3.
</a></p>
138 <p>If you have problems with or comments about this Web page, please e-mail me at
<a href=
"mailto:rodsmith@rodsbooks.com">rodsmith@rodsbooks.com.
</a> Thanks.
</p>
140 <p><a href=
"index.html">Go to the main rEFInd page
</a></p>
142 <p><a href=
"installing.html">Learn how to install rEFInd
</a></p>
144 <p><a href=
"http://www.rodsbooks.com/">Return
</a> to my main Web page.
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