href="mailto:rodsmith@rodsbooks.com">rodsmith@rodsbooks.com</a></p>
<p>Originally written: 3/14/2012; last Web page update:
-3/9/2014, referencing rEFInd 0.7.8</p>
+5/15/2014, referencing rEFInd 0.8.1</p>
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like to add detection for Itanium and ARM systems, but I have no
way to test such changes.</li>
+ <li>Further to the preceding, rEFInd's GPT-scanning code (used to
+ extract partition names) includes assumptions about byte order, and
+ so will work only on little-endian CPUs such as the x86 and
+ x86-64.</li>
+
<li>A way to set the color of the font would be useful for theming
purposes.</li>
characters, and by enabling use of variable-width as well as
monospace fonts.</li>
- <li>I would like to be able to specify the volume on which a boot
- loader resides using a partition GUID value, but extracting a GUID
- from the partition data is harder than extracting the volume's
- label or counting up the filesystem numbers.</li>
-
- <li>Currently, if a filesystem's label comes up empty, rEFInd
- substitutes the size, so you get displays like <tt>boot
- EFI\foo\bar.efi from 90 GiB volume</tt>. I'd like to add more
- checks to substitute the GPT <i>partition</i> label if the
- <i>filesystem</i> label comes up empty.</li>
-
- <li>Along the lines of the previous item, the
- <tt>default_selection</tt> might be expanded to support some form
- of specification of disk types, as in a special entry for any
+ <li>The <tt>default_selection</tt> might be expanded to support some
+ form of specification of disk types, as in a special entry for any
optical disk or any external disk, no matter what its name is.</li>
<li>It would be useful to be able to specify paths to boot loaders
<tt>pmset</tt> to disable the <tt>autopoweroff</tt> option</a> is
<a
href="http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/91529/macbook-air-not-waking-up-from-suspend-sleep-with-refind-boot-manager-installed">claimed
- by some</a> to at least partially fix the problem, though.</li>
+ by some</a> to at least partially fix the problem, though. Using
+ the <tt>--ownhfs</tt> installation option may also help in some
+ cases.</li>
+
+ <li>If you activate BIOS-mode support on UEFI-based PCs, you may find
+ multiple copies of the BIOS-mode loaders added to your firmware's
+ boot manager. Only one copy shows up in rEFInd, though.</li>
</ul></li> <!-- Known bugs -->
Linux's EFI stub loader). Also along these lines, adding drivers
for Linux LVM and RAID setups would be useful.</li>
- <li>The HFS+ driver returns a volume label of "HFS+ volume", no matter
- what the volume's real label is.</li>
-
<li>This may not be possible, or it may require a new driver, but a way
to have the drivers access files (like a Linux loopback mount) is
desirable.</li>