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<p>Originally written: 3/14/2012; last Web page update:
-8/6/2013, referencing rEFInd 0.7.2</p>
+8/7/2013, referencing rEFInd 0.7.3</p>
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<li class="tight"><a href="#addons">Installing Additional Components</a></li>
-<li class="tight"><a href="#sluggish">Fixing a Sluggish Macintosh Boot</a>
+<li class="tight"><a href="#sluggish">Fixing a Macintosh Boot</a>
<ul>
<li><b><a
href="http://tianocore.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=tianocore/edk2;a=blob_plain;f=EdkShellBinPkg/FullShell/X64/Shell_Full.efi;hb=HEAD"><tt>shell.efi</tt></a></b>—This
- file, placed in the ESP's <tt>efi/tools</tt> directory, adds the
+ file, placed in the ESP's <tt>EFI/tools</tt> directory, adds the
ability to launch a text-mode EFI shell from rEFInd. Note that the
download link is to a 64-bit binary that must be renamed before rEFInd
will recognize it. Additional shell download links appear on the <a
Linux wiki,</a> and on other sites; try a Web search if the shell you
find doesn't work to your satisfaction.</li>
+<li><b><a
+ href="http://www.memtest86.com/download.htm">Memtest86</a></b>—This
+ is a popular tool for performing basic hardware tests, and especially
+ memory tests. rEFInd recognizes this program when it is stored in the
+ <tt>EFI/tools</tt>, <tt>EFI/tools/memtest</tt>,
+ <tt>EFI/tools/memtest86</tt>, <tt>EFI/memtest</tt>, or
+ <tt>EFI/memtest86</tt> directory, with a program filename of
+ <tt>memtest86.efi</tt>, <tt>memtest86_x64.efi</tt>,
+ <tt>memtest86x64.efi</tt>, or <tt>bootx64.efi</tt>. (Change
+ <tt>x64</tt> to <tt>ia32</tt> on IA-32 systems.) Be sure to download
+ the EFI version of the program. If you get the USB flash drive version,
+ you should mount the flash drive's ESP (partition 2) and copy the
+ <tt>EFI/BOOT</tt> directory to your own ESP's
+ <tt>EFI/tools/memtest</tt> or other Memtest86 directory name, as just
+ specified. rEFInd should then recognize it, provided the
+ <tt>showtools</tt> line includes the <tt>memtest</tt> or
+ <tt>memtest86</tt> token.</li>
+
<li><b><tt>gptsync.efi</tt> or <tt>gptsync_<tt
class="variable">arch</tt>.efi</tt></b>—This program creates a <a
href="http://www.rodsbooks.com/gdisk/hybrid.html">hybrid MBR</a> from
<p>The biggest drawback to this approach is that you won't be able to edit the rEFInd configuration file or move rEFInd-related binaries from an EFI shell if you install it in this way, since Apple's HFS+ driver for EFI is read-only. (The same is true of rEFInd's HFS+ driver, so it won't help you overcome this limitation.) You may also be limited in making changes to your rEFInd configuration from Linux or other OSes, too, since Linux's HFS+ drivers disable write support by default on volumes with an active journal. You can force write access by using the <tt>force</tt> option to <tt>mount</tt>; however, this procedure is noted as being risky in the Linux HFS+ documentation, so I don't recommend doing this on a regular basis. As a compromise, you might try creating a small non-journaled HFS+ volume that's dedicated to holding rEFInd. You could even mount it as the Linux <tt>/boot</tt> partition, in which case it would also hold the Linux kernel and related files. You'll need to install rEFInd manually if you try this.</p>
+<p>A variant of this solution is suggested in <a href="http://www.sparxeng.com/blog/software/fixing-slow-boot-on-a-triple-boot-mountain-lion-mac">this blog post,</a> which recommends placing rEFInd on an HFS+ volume on the first SATA channel. (In the blogger's case, that channel used to hold an optical drive, but that drive was replaced by a hard disk.)</p>
+
<a name="fallback">
<h3>Using the Fallback Filename</h3>
</a>
-<p>I've received one report that installing rEFInd to the ESP using the fallback filename (<tt>EFI/BOOT/bootx64.efi</tt> on most systems, or <tt>EFI/BOOT/bootia32.efi</tt> on very old Macs) can work around the problem.</p>
+<p>I've received a few reports that installing rEFInd to the ESP using the fallback filename (<tt>EFI/BOOT/bootx64.efi</tt> on most systems, or <tt>EFI/BOOT/bootia32.efi</tt> on very old Macs) can work around the problem.</p>
<a name="clearing">
<h3>Clearing the NVRAM Entries</h3>