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<p>Originally written: 3/14/2012; last Web page update:
-12/6/2012, referencing rEFInd 0.5.0</p>
+12/11/2012, referencing rEFInd 0.5.1</p>
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though; because of the popularity of dual boots with Windows on Macs,
the BIOS/legacy scans are enabled by default on Macs.</li>
+<li>If you run <tt>install.sh</tt> on Linux and if
+ <tt>/boot/refind_linux.conf</tt> doesn't already exist,
+ <tt>install.sh</tt> creates this file and populates it with a couple of
+ sample entries. If <tt>/boot</tt> is on a FAT partition (or HFS+ on a
+ Mac), or if it's on an ext2fs, ext3fs, ReiserFS, or HFS+ partition and
+ you install an appropriate driver (for instance by passing
+ <tt>--drivers</tt> to the script), the result is that rEFInd will
+ detect your kernel and will probably boot it correctly. Some systems
+ will require manual tweaking to <tt>refind_linux.conf</tt>,
+ though—for instance, to add <tt>dolvm</tt> to the boot options on
+ Gentoo systems that use LVM.</li>
+
</ul>
<p>In addition to these quirks, you should be aware of some options that <tt>install.sh</tt> supports to enable you to customize your installation in various ways. The syntax for <tt>install.sh</tt> is as follows:</p>