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<p>Originally written: 3/19/2012; last Web page update:
-5/25/2012, referencing rEFInd 0.4.1</p>
+6/23/2012, referencing rEFInd 0.4.4</p>
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initial RAM disk is identified, rEFInd passes a suitable
<tt>initrd=</tt> option to the kernel when it boots.</li>
-<p class="sidebar">rEFInd 0.2.1 and 0.2.2 used a filename of <tt>linux.conf</tt> to hold Linux kernel options; however, the Linux kernel developers plan to use this name themselves, so I've switched to <tt>refind_linux.conf</tt> as of rEFInd 0.2.3. For the moment, rEFInd still supports the <tt>linux.conf</tt> filename as a backup to <tt>refind_linux.conf</tt>, but <tt>linux.conf</tt> is now officially deprecated as a rEFInd configuration file, so you should rename your <tt>linux.conf</tt> file to <tt>refind_linux.conf</tt> if you're upgrading.</p>
+<p class="sidebar">rEFInd 0.2.1 and 0.2.2 used a filename of <tt>linux.conf</tt> to hold Linux kernel options; however, the Linux kernel developers plan to use this name themselves, so I've switched to <tt>refind_linux.conf</tt> as of rEFInd 0.2.3. Through version 0.4.2, rEFInd still supported the <tt>linux.conf</tt> filename as a backup to <tt>refind_linux.conf</tt>, but as of version 0.4.3, <tt>linux.conf</tt> no longer works, so you should rename your <tt>linux.conf</tt> file to <tt>refind_linux.conf</tt> if you're upgrading.</p>
<li>rEFInd looks for a file called <tt>refind_linux.conf</tt> in the same
directory as the kernel file. This file is a practical requirement for