Version 0.4.6 release, with UEFI legacy boot support.

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@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
 href="mailto:rodsmith@rodsbooks.com">rodsmith@rodsbooks.com</a></p>
 
 <p>Originally written: 3/14/2012; last Web page update:
 href="mailto:rodsmith@rodsbooks.com">rodsmith@rodsbooks.com</a></p>
 
 <p>Originally written: 3/14/2012; last Web page update:

-8/12/2012, referencing rEFInd 0.4.5</p>
+10/6/2012, referencing rEFInd 0.4.6</p>

 
 <p>I'm a technical writer and consultant specializing in Linux technologies. This Web page is provided free of charge and with no annoying outside ads; however, I did take time to prepare it, and Web hosting does cost money. If you find this Web page useful, please consider making a small donation to help keep this site up and running. Thanks!</p>
 
 
 <p>I'm a technical writer and consultant specializing in Linux technologies. This Web page is provided free of charge and with no annoying outside ads; however, I did take time to prepare it, and Web hosting does cost money. If you find this Web page useful, please consider making a small donation to help keep this site up and running. Thanks!</p>
 


@@ -97,46 +97,49 @@ href="mailto:rodsmith@rodsbooks.com">rodsmith@rodsbooks.com</a></p>
 
 <ul>
 
 
 <ul>
 

-<li><b><a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.4.5/refind-src-0.4.5.zip/download">A
+<li><b><a
+    href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.4.6/refind-src-0.4.6.zip/download">A

     source code zip file</a></b>&mdash;This is useful if you want to
     compile the software locally. Note that I use Linux with the <a
     source code zip file</a></b>&mdash;This is useful if you want to
     compile the software locally. Note that I use Linux with the <a

-    href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnu-efi">GNU-EFI</a> development
-    tools to build the main rEFInd binary, and Linux with the <a
-    href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/tianocore/">TianoCore
-    development kit</a> for the drivers. rEFIt used an Intel/Microsoft
+    href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/tianocore/">TianoCore EFI
+    Development Kit 2 (EDK2)</a> to build my binaries (below), although the
+    <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnu-efi">GNU-EFI</a>
+    development tools are also supported. rEFIt used an Intel/Microsoft

     toolchain. Backporting rEFInd to that toolchain is theoretically
     possible, but I've not attempted it.</li>
 
 <li><b><a
     toolchain. Backporting rEFInd to that toolchain is theoretically
     possible, but I've not attempted it.</li>
 
 <li><b><a

-    href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.4.5/refind-bin-0.4.5.zip/download">A
-    binary zip file (built with GNU-EFI)</a></b>&mdash;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 optical disc. This zip file package includes both
-    <i>x</i>86 (aka IA32) and <i>x</i>86-64 (aka <i>x</i>64, AMD64, or
-    EM64T) versions of rEFInd. Which you install depends on your
-    architecture, as described on the <a href="installing.html">Installing
-    rEFInd</a> page.</li>
-
+    href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.4.6/refind-bin-0.4.6.zip/download">A
+    binary zip file</a></b>&mdash;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
+    optical disc. This zip file package includes both <i>x</i>86 (aka IA32)
+    and <i>x</i>86-64 (aka <i>x</i>64, AMD64, or EM64T) versions of rEFInd.
+    Which you install depends on your architecture, as described on the <a
+    href="installing.html">Installing rEFInd</a> page.</li>
+
+<!--

 <li><b><a
 <li><b><a

-    href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.4.5/refind-bin-tiano-0.4.5.zip/download">A
-    binary zip file (built with TianoCore EDK2)</a></b>&mdash;This package
-    is just like the preceding one, except that it was built using the
-    TianoCore EFI Development Kit 2 (EDK2) rather than the GNU-EFI that was
-    used to build the other binary. In theory, the two should work
-    identically. In practice, they might not. I originally used GNU-EFI to
-    develop rEFInd, so it's the safer version; however, I would appreciate
-    feedback about the TianoCore EDK2 build.</li>
+    href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.4.6/refind-bin-gnuefi-0.4.6.zip/download">A
+    binary zip file (built with GNU-EFI)</a></b>&mdash;This package is just
+    like the preceding one, except that it was built using the GNU-EFI
+    development kit rather than the TianoCore EFI Development Kit 2 (EDK2)
+    that was used to build the other binary. I originally used GNU-EFI to
+    develop rEFInd, but the GNU-EFI toolkit doesn't support the legacy
+    (BIOS-mode) boot calls on UEFI-based PCs, so I now consider the
+    TianoCore build to be the primary one. (Macs can boot legacy OSes using
+    either build.)</li>
+-->

 
 <li><b><a
 
 <li><b><a

-    href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.4.5/refind-cd-0.4.5.zip/download">A
+    href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.4.6/refind-cd-0.4.6.zip/download">A

     CD-R image file</a></b>&mdash;This download contains the same files as
     CD-R image file</a></b>&mdash;This download contains the same files as

-    the GNU-EFI 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 UEFI PCs,
-    but fails on some older Macs.) If you like it, you can then copy the
-    files from the CD-R to your hard disk. The files are named in such a
-    way that the disc should boot on either 64-bit (<i>x</i>86-64) or
-    32-bit (<i>x</i>86) EFI computers. I've included an open source EFI
+    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
+    UEFI PCs, but fails on some older Macs.) If you like it, you can then
+    copy the files from the CD-R to your hard disk. The files are named in
+    such a way that the disc should boot on either 64-bit (<i>x</i>86-64)
+    or 32-bit (<i>x</i>86) EFI computers. I've included an open source EFI

     shell program on this disc that's not included in the binary zip file,
     so that you can access an EFI shell from a bootable disc even if you
     don't have an EFI shell available from your regular hard disk. This can
     shell program on this disc that's not included in the binary zip file,
     so that you can access an EFI shell from a bootable disc even if you
     don't have an EFI shell available from your regular hard disk. This can


@@ -153,7 +156,7 @@ href="mailto:rodsmith@rodsbooks.com">rodsmith@rodsbooks.com</a></p>
 
 </ul>
 
 
 </ul>
 

-<p>If you're using another platform, you can give rEFInd a try; however, you'll need to build it from source code yourself or track down a binary from another source. (Perhaps by the time you read this it will be included in Linux distributions built for unusual CPUs.)</p>
+<p>If you're using a platform other than <i>x</i>86 or <i>x</i>86-64, you can give rEFInd a try; however, you'll need to build it from source code yourself or track down a binary from another source. (Perhaps by the time you read this it will be included in Linux distributions built for unusual CPUs.)</p>

 
 <p>To extract the files from the zip file images I've provided, you'll need a tool such as <tt>unzip</tt>, which is included with Linux and Mac OS X. Numerous Windows utilities also support this format, such as <a href="http://www.pkware.com/software/pkzip/">PKZIP</a> and <a href="http://www.7-zip.org/">7-Zip.</a></p>
 
 
 <p>To extract the files from the zip file images I've provided, you'll need a tool such as <tt>unzip</tt>, which is included with Linux and Mac OS X. Numerous Windows utilities also support this format, such as <a href="http://www.pkware.com/software/pkzip/">PKZIP</a> and <a href="http://www.7-zip.org/">7-Zip.</a></p>