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-7/6/2014, referencing rEFInd 0.8.3
+12/8/2014, referencing rEFInd 0.8.4
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upper-left corner of the screen. Having an option to support a
transparent background is desirable to some users.
-
+ When delivering rEFInd as a boot loader from a network server,
+ rEFInd is limited to its default options and can boot only local
+ OSes, not network OSes. The cause is that the server delivers a
+ single file, so rEFInd is divorced from its configuration and
+ support files.
+
+
Known bugs that need squashing:
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- - EFI supports network boots. rEFInd doesn't, but it would be nice if
- it would.
-
- There's currently no way to create a manual boot stanza for a
BIOS-booted OS. This isn't a big priority for me personally, but I
can see how it could be for some people.
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stanzas override auto-detected boot loader definitions for the same
boot loader file.
+ Along similar lines, some users have asked for a way to take
+ detected boot programs and create a set of manual boot stanzas for
+ them, so that they can be modified manually.
+
+ GRUB provides a configuration-file command called outb
+ that enables manipulating hardware registers. Something similar,
+ via the mm command, can be done in the EFI shell. I'd like
+ to add such a feature to rEFInd, since it enables doing things like
+ disabling one or another video output on Macs with two video
+ cards.
+
I have thoughts about creating an EFI configuration tool and
information utility—something to tell you about your hard
disks, enable you to manage MOKs, adjust boot loader priority in
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that there were problems with the installation, although this isn't
really the case.
+ rEFInd's support for network booting is primitive and relies on the
+ external iPXE package. In my own testing, iPXE retrieves the
+ BIOS-mode boot loader from some servers that offer both, which
+ makes it useless on those networks.
+
A Mac-specific package is highly desirable.