href="mailto:rodsmith@rodsbooks.com">rodsmith@rodsbooks.com</a></p>
<p>Originally written: 3/14/2012; last Web page update:
-5/9/2012, referencing rEFInd 0.3.4</p>
+5/15/2012, referencing rEFInd 0.3.5</p>
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<li>I'd like to find a way to get rEFInd to launch BIOS boot loaders on
UEFI-based systems. This option currently works only on Macs—or
- at least, I've not gotten it to work on any of my UEFI-based PCs. (I
- have an idea about this, but haven't yet investigated it in detail. If
- you'd like to help on this, <a
+ at least, I've not gotten it to work on any of my UEFI-based PCs. (I've
+ done some experiments to try to get this to work, but so far without
+
success. If you'd like to help on this, <a
href="mailto:rodsmith@rodsbooks.com">e-mail me</a> for my
thoughts.)</li>
<li>I've received queries about rEFInd's ability to work with Apple's
whole-disk encryption scheme that's new with OS X 10.7. Unfortunately,
- I lack the hardware to test this.</li>
+ I lack the hardware to test this, but my understanding is that it will
+ work correctly <i>if</i> rEFInd is installed in the ESP rather than on
+ the Mac OS X root partition. See <a
+ href="https://sourceforge.net/p/refind/discussion/general/thread/5c7d0195/">this
+ forum thread</a> for more information.</li>
<li>The Shutdown option works correctly on Macs, but not on UEFI-based PCs.
On such systems, Shutdown reboots the computer. This should be
Perhaps this could be done via a separate tool that could be launched
much like the shell or <tt>gptsync</tt>.</li>
-<li>I'd like to find a way to have rEFInd re-scan removable media when
- they're inserted.</li>
-
<li>Enabling users to eject removable media would be useful.</li>
<li>I'd like to give the user the ability to set custom options on a
- per-boot basis, similar to what's possible in GRUB.</li>
+ single-boot basis, similar to what's possible in GRUB.</li>
<li>The code is in need of review to search for memory leaks and similar
problems.</p>