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href="mailto:rodsmith@rodsbooks.com">rodsmith@rodsbooks.com
Originally written: 3/14/2012; last Web page update:
-12/17/2013, referencing rEFInd 0.7.6
+12/8/2014, referencing rEFInd 0.8.4
-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!
@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ href="mailto:rodsmith@rodsbooks.com">rodsmith@rodsbooks.com
- A
+ href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.8.4/refind-bin-0.8.4.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
@@ -146,14 +146,13 @@ href="mailto:rodsmith@rodsbooks.com">rodsmith@rodsbooks.com
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
+ href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.8.4/refind-bin-gnuefi-0.8.4.zip/download">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; but using GNU-EFI also means that this version
- can't launch BIOS-mode OSes.
+ users with this problem.
- A
+ href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.8.4/refind-0.8.4-1.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
@@ -162,17 +161,19 @@ href="mailto:rodsmith@rodsbooks.com">rodsmith@rodsbooks.com
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/0.8.4/refind-0.8.4-1.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/0.8.4/refind_0.8.4-1_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
- package using alien.
+ package using alien. Note that an Ubuntu
+ PPA is available, which may install more smoothly and will cause
+ rEFInd to automatically update with other packages.