X-Git-Url: https://code.delx.au/refind/blobdiff_plain/3ea2147587e27beae55294420d52e4a10b6331b2..2a6ed1155086a30aaa01ced44b559183e7521083:/docs/refind/installing.html diff --git a/docs/refind/installing.html b/docs/refind/installing.html index 31d62f5..d22af01 100644 --- a/docs/refind/installing.html +++ b/docs/refind/installing.html @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ href="mailto:rodsmith@rodsbooks.com">rodsmith@rodsbooks.com
Originally written: 3/14/2012; last Web page update: -3/23/2014, referencing rEFInd 0.7.8
+5/15/2014, referencing rEFInd 0.8.1This 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!
@@ -208,11 +208,11 @@ href="mailto:rodsmith@rodsbooks.com">rodsmith@rodsbooks.comBeginning with version 0.6.2, I've included RPM and Debian package files for rEFInd. If you have a working RPM-based or Debian-based Linux installation that boots in EFI mode, using one of these files is likely to be the easiest way to install rEFInd: You need only download the file and issue an appropriate installation command. In some cases, double-clicking the package in your file manager will install it. If that doesn't work, a command like the following will install the RPM on an RPM-based system:
-# rpm -Uvh refind-0.7.8-1.x86_64.rpm+
# rpm -Uvh refind-0.8.1-1.x86_64.rpm
On a Debian-based system, the equivalent command is:
-# dpkg -i refind_0.7.8-1_amd64.deb+
# dpkg -i refind_0.8.1-1_amd64.deb
Either command produces output similar to that described for using the install.sh script, so you can check it for error messages and other signs of trouble. The package file installs rEFInd and registers it with the EFI to be the default boot loader. The script that runs as part of the installation process tries to determine if you're using Secure Boot, and if so it will try to configure rEFInd to launch using shim; however, this won't work correctly on all systems. Ubuntu 12.10 users who are booting with Secure Boot active should be wary, since the resulting installation will probably try to use Ubuntu's version of shim, which won't work correctly with rEFInd.
@@ -441,7 +441,7 @@ Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted onIf you can't currently boot any OS (say, because a firmware update has wiped your NVRAM entries), you may find it convenient to install rEFInd using an EFI version 2 shell. Unfortunately, the bcfg command described here is not available in the EFI version 1 shell, and the version 2 shell is unusable on many firmware implementations prior to 2.3.1. Thus, this procedure won't work for all systems.
In addition to emergency situations, using bcfg can be desirable if efibootmgr or other OS-hosted tools don't do the job. This happens under VirtualBox, for instance. An alternative in such cases can be to use alternative names for rEFInd.