href="mailto:rodsmith@rodsbooks.com">rodsmith@rodsbooks.com</a></p>
<p>Originally written: 4/19/2012; last Web page update:
-7/26/2015, referencing rEFInd 0.9.0</p>
+9/13/2015, referencing rEFInd 0.9.1</p>
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mainly because it compiled cleanly with no extra work, aside from
providing a Makefile entry for it.</li>
+<p class="sidebar"><b>Warning:</b> I've received multiple reports of system hangs when using the NTFS driver; however, I've been unable to replicate the problem. (The problem is probably triggered either by interactions with specific EFIs or by unique features of the "problem" NTFS volumes.) I therefore recommend avoiding it unless it's absolutely necessary. I've added a couple of checks to the driver code in rEFInd 0.9.1 that <i>may</i> fix this problem, but these checks may also have no effect.</p>
+
<li><b>NTFS</b>—Samuel Liao contributed this driver, which uses the
- rEFIt/rEFInd driver framework. My own testing of it is limited, but it
- does work for me. Note that this driver is <i><b>not</b></i> required
- to boot Windows with rEFInd, since Windows stores its EFI boot loader
- on the (FAT) ESP, and the BIOS boot process (generally used when
- dual-booting on a Mac) relies only on the partition's boot sector,
- which is read without the benefit of this driver. Reasons to use this
- driver include:
+ rEFIt/rEFInd driver framework. Note that this driver is
+ <i><b>not</b></i> required to boot Windows with rEFInd, since Windows
+ stores its EFI boot loader on the (FAT) ESP, and the BIOS boot process
+ (generally used when dual-booting on a Mac) relies only on the
+ partition's boot sector, which is read without the benefit of this
+ driver. Reasons to use this driver include:
<ul>
<li>If you want to store large boot files to be read from EFI, such as
RAM disk images, from Windows.</li>