+<p>This method requires that your <tt>/boot</tt> directory, whether it's on a separate partition or is a regular directory in your root (<tt>/</tt>) filesystem, be readable by the EFI. At the moment, all EFI implementations can read FAT and Macs can read HFS+. By using <a href="drivers.html">drivers,</a> you can make any EFI read HFS+, ISO-9660, ReiserFS, ext2fs, ext3fs, ext4fs, Btrfs, or other filesystems. Thus, if you use any of these filesystems on a regular partition (not an LVM or RAID configuration) that holds your kernels in <tt>/boot</tt>, you qualify for this easy method. The default partition layouts used by Ubuntu, Fedora, and many other distributions qualify, because they use one of these filesystems (usually ext4fs) in a normal partition or on a separate <tt>/boot</tt> partition. You must also have a 3.3.0 or later Linux kernel with EFI stub support, of course.</p>
+
+<p>If you installed rEFInd 0.6.0 or later with its <tt>refind-install</tt> (formerly <tt>install.sh</tt>) script from your regular Linux installation, chances are everything's set up; you should be able to reboot and see your Linux kernels as boot options. If you installed manually, from OS X, or from an emergency system, though, you may need to do a couple of things manually:
+
+<ul>
+
+<li>Copy the relevant driver file for your filesystem and architecture to
+ the <tt>drivers</tt> or <tt>drivers_<tt class="variable">arch</tt></tt>
+ subdirectory of the rEFInd installation directory on the EFI System
+ Partition (ESP). You may need to create this subdirectory, too.</li>
+
+<li>Create a <tt>refind_linux.conf</tt> file in your <tt>/boot</tt>
+ directory. The <tt>mkrlconf</tt> script that comes with rEFInd
+ should do this job, or you can do it manually as described <a
+ href="#efistub">later.</a> Starting with version 0.6.12, rEFInd can
+ create minimal boot options from <tt>/etc/fstab</tt>, if <tt>/boot</tt>
+ is <i>not</i> a separate partition, so a <tt>refind_linux.conf</tt>
+ file may not be strictly necessary. Version 0.9.0 also adds the ability
+ to identify the root (<tt>/</tt>) partition via the <a
+ href="http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/DiscoverablePartitionsSpec/">Discoverable
+ Partitions Spec,</a> if your disk uses the appropriate type codes. A
+ <tt>refind_linux.conf</tt> file remains desirable, though, and is
+ necessary in some situations.</li>
+
+</ul>
+
+<p>When you reboot, you should see rEFInd options for your Linux kernels. If they work, your job is done, although you might want to apply some of the tweaks described in the <a href="#reconfigure">maintenance-free setup</a> section. If you have problems, you may need to adjust the <tt>refind_linux.conf</tt> file, as described in the <a href="#efistub">detailed configuration section.</a></p>