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Originally written: 3/14/2012; last Web page update:
-1/6/2013, referencing rEFInd 0.6.3
+5/4/2014, referencing rEFInd 0.8.0
-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!
+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!
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- A
- source code zip file—This is useful if you want to compile
- the software locally. Note that I use Linux with the TianoCore EFI
- Development Kit 2 (EDK2) to build my binary packages (below),
- although the GNU-EFI
- development tools are also supported.
-
-- A
+ href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.8.0/refind-bin-0.8.0.zip/download">A
binary zip file—Download this if you want to install
rEFInd and/or its filesystem drivers on an x86 or x86-64
computer and have no need to test rEFInd first by booting it on an
optical disc. This zip file package includes both x86 (aka IA32)
and x86-64 (aka x64, AMD64, or EM64T) versions of rEFInd.
Which you install depends on your architecture, as described on the Installing rEFInd page.
+ href="installing.html">Installing rEFInd page. Some users of Arch
+ Linux have reported problems booting some specific Arch Linux kernels
+ with rEFInd and some other tools. For them, a variant
+ package exists in which the x86-64 binary was compiled with
+ GNU-EFI rather than the usual TianoCore EDK2. This change helps some
+ users with this problem.
- A
+ href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.8.0/refind-0.8.0-1.x86_64.rpm/download">A
binary RPM file—If you use an RPM-based x86-64
Linux system such as Fedora or openSUSE, you can install the binary RPM
package rather than use the binary zip file. (I don't provide an
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rEFInd page) as part of the installation process. Distribution
maintainers can examine the refind.spec file in the source
package and tweak it to their needs. The source
+ href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.8.0/refind-0.8.0-1.src.rpm/download">source
RPM file might or might not build on your system as-is; it relies
on assumptions about the locations of the GNU-EFI development
files.
- A
+ href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.8.0/refind_0.8.0-1_amd64.deb/download">A
binary Debian package—If you use an x86-64 version
of Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, or another Debian-based distribution, you can
install from this package, which was converted from the binary RPM
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either build.)
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-
+
- A
+ href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.8.0/refind-cd-0.8.0.zip/download">A
CD-R image file—This download contains the same files as
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
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be an extremely valuable diagnostic tool if you know how to use an EFI
shell.
+
+
+- A
+ USB flash drive image file—Although you can create
+ your own rEFInd USB flash drive, you may find it easier to download
+ this version and copy it to your USB drive with dd or some
+ other low-level disk copying utility.
+
+- A
+ source code zip file—This is useful if you want to compile
+ the software locally. Note that I use Linux with the TianoCore EFI
+ Development Kit 2 (EDK2) to build my binary packages (above),
+ although the GNU-EFI
+ development tools are also supported.
+
- Source code via
git—If you want to peruse the source code in your Web
browser or get the very latest version (including pre-release bug fixes
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rEFInd's git repository in the Arch User Repository (AUR), under the
name refind-efi-git. The git release is likely to include
pre-release bug fixes and new features, but those features may be
- poorly tested or undocumented. The last I checked, both builds used the
- Tianocore toolkit, and so support booting BIOS/legacy boot loaders on
- UEFI-based PCs.
+ poorly tested or undocumented.
+
+- ALT Linux—This RPM-based distribution is experimenting
+ with using rEFInd on EFI-based computers. As I write, the ALT
+ developers haven't yet nailed down booting from an optical disc (it's a
+ tricky and delicate task, especially when preparing a "hybrid" image),
+ but they're working on the problem. They have an RPM of rEFInd; see this
+ page for details.
- Fat
Dog—This variant of Puppy Linux uses a combination of
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-copyright © 2012–2013 by Roderick W. Smith
+copyright © 2012–2014 by Roderick W. Smith
This document is licensed under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License (FDL), version 1.3.