href="mailto:rodsmith@rodsbooks.com">rodsmith@rodsbooks.com</a></p>
<p>Originally written: 3/14/2012; last Web page update:
-12/30/2012, referencing rEFInd 0.6.2</p>
+1/6/2013, referencing rEFInd 0.6.3</p>
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<ul>
<li><b><a
- href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.6.2/refind-src-0.6.2.zip/download">A
+ href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.6.3/refind-src-0.6.3.zip/download">A
source code zip file</a></b>—This is useful if you want to compile
the software locally. Note that I use Linux with the <a
href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/tianocore/">TianoCore EFI
- Development Kit 2 (EDK2)</a> to build my binary zip package (below),
+ Development Kit 2 (EDK2)</a> to build my binary packages (below),
although the <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnu-efi">GNU-EFI</a>
development tools are also supported.</li>
<li><b><a
- href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.6.2/refind-bin-0.6.2.zip/download">A
+ href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.6.3/refind-bin-0.6.3.zip/download">A
binary zip file</a></b>—Download this if you want to install
rEFInd and/or its filesystem drivers on an <i>x</i>86 or <i>x</i>86-64
computer and have no need to test rEFInd first by booting it on an
Which you install depends on your architecture, as described on the <a
href="installing.html">Installing rEFInd</a> page.</li>
+<li><b><a
+ href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.6.3/refind-0.6.3-2.x86_64.rpm/download">A
+ binary RPM file</a></b>—If you use an RPM-based <i>x</i>86-64
+ Linux system such as Fedora or openSUSE, you can install the binary RPM
+ package rather than use the binary zip file. (I don't provide an
+ equivalent 32-bit package.) This package runs the <tt>install.sh</tt>
+ script (described on the <a href="installing.html">Installing
+ rEFInd</a> page) as part of the installation process. Distribution
+ maintainers can examine the <tt>refind.spec</tt> file in the source
+ package and tweak it to their needs. The <a
+ href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.6.3/refind-0.6.3-2.src.rpm/download">source
+ RPM file</a> might or might not build on your system as-is; it relies
+ on assumptions about the locations of the GNU-EFI development
+ files.</li>
+
+<li><b><a
+ href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.6.3/refind_0.6.3-2_amd64.deb/download">A
+ binary Debian package</a></b>—If you use an <i>x</i>86-64 version
+ of Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, or another Debian-based distribution, you can
+ install from this package, which was converted from the binary RPM
+ package using <tt>alien</tt>.</li>
+
<!--
<li><b><a
href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.4.7/refind-bin-gnuefi-0.4.7.zip/download">A
<p class="sidebar"><b>Tip:</b> If you want a bootable USB flash drive, download the binary zip file or CD-R image file, prepare a USB flash drive with a FAT32 partition, and then use the <tt>install.sh</tt> program's <tt>--usedefault</tt> option, and perhaps the <tt>--alldrivers</tt> option, as in <tt class="userinput">bash install.sh --usedefault /dev/sdd1 --alldrivers</tt> to install to the first partition on <tt>/dev/sdd</tt>. This procedure should work even on a BIOS-booted computer.</p>
<li><b><a
- href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.6.2/refind-cd-0.6.2.zip/download">A
+ href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.6.3/refind-cd-0.6.3.zip/download">A
CD-R image file</a></b>—This download contains the same files as
the binary zip file, but you can burn it to a CD-R to test rEFInd
(and its filesystem drivers) without installing it first. (It boots on
be an extremely valuable diagnostic tool if you know how to use an EFI
shell.</li>
-<li><b><a
- href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.6.2/refind-0.6.2-1.src.rpm/download">Source</a>
- and <a
- href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.6.2/refind-0.6.2-1.x86_64.rpm/download">binary</a>
- RPM files</b>—These files are intended more as demonstrations than
- as practical packages. If you use an RPM-based <i>x</i>86-64 Linux system,
- though, you can install the binary RPM package. (I don't provide an
- equivalent 32-bit package.) Note, however, that this package's files are
- not signed for use with shim or Secure Boot, and it installs four
- filesystem drivers, which can slow down the boot process. It was also
- compiled with GNU-EFI, which means that it lacks the ability to boot
- BIOS-based OSes. Thus, I recommend using the binary zip file instead. If
- you do use the RPM file, be aware that it installs rEFInd directly to
- <tt>/boot/efi/EFI/refind</tt>, so your ESP must be mounted at
- <tt>/boot/efi</tt>. The post-installation script, which adds rEFInd to the
- NVRAM entries, requires <tt>efibootmgr</tt> and is likely to fail if you
- try to install from a live CD. Distribution maintainers can examine the
- <tt>refind.spec</tt> file in the source package and tweak it to their
- needs and to eliminate some or all of these deficiencies.</li>
-
<li><b><a href="https://sourceforge.net/p/refind/code">Source code via
git</a></b>—If you want to peruse the source code in your Web
browser or get the very latest version (including pre-release bug fixes
Tianocore toolkit, and so support booting BIOS/legacy boot loaders on
UEFI-based PCs.</li>
+<li><b><a href="http://distro.ibiblio.org/fatdog/web/">Fat
+ Dog</a></b>—This variant of Puppy Linux uses a combination of
+ rEFInd and GRUB 2 to boot its installation medium in EFI mode and
+ provides a rEFInd package in its repository set.</li>
+
<li><b>The <a href="http://nixos.org/nixpkgs/">Nix Packages
collection</a></b>—This site creates packages for a number of
OSes using its own packaging system.</li>
-<li><b><a
- href="https://build.opensuse.org/package/show?package=refind&project=home%3Amichael-chang%3AUEFI">OpenSUSE
- Build Service (OBS)</a></b>—This site holds a binary x86-64 build
- of rEFInd that should install on any RPM-based distribution. It doesn't
- completely set up rEFInd, though; it just places the rEFInd files in
- the <tt>/usr/share/refind</tt> directory, and a copy of
- <tt>install.sh</tt> as <tt>/usr/sbin/refind_install</tt>.
- Unfortunately, the script makes assumptions about the locations of
- files and so is useless when files are moved around in this way. Thus,
- you'll need to install manually after installing this RPM, so you might
- as well download the rEFInd binary <tt>.zip</tt> file from Sourceforge
- instead.</li>
-
<li><b>Slackware</b>—Although it doesn't seem to provide an official
build, <a href="http://franck-barbenoire.fr/spip.php?article198">this
site</a> has links to rEFInd binary packages for Slackware 13.37 and
<hr />
-<p>copyright © 2012 by Roderick W. Smith</p>
+<p>copyright © 2012–2013 by Roderick W. Smith</p>
<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>