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+5/15/2014, referencing rEFInd 0.8.1

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like to add detection for Itanium and ARM systems, but I have no way to test such changes. +
  • Further to the preceding, rEFInd's GPT-scanning code (used to + extract partition names) includes assumptions about byte order, and + so will work only on little-endian CPUs such as the x86 and + x86-64.
  • +
  • A way to set the color of the font would be useful for theming purposes.
  • @@ -185,20 +190,8 @@ href="mailto:rodsmith@rodsbooks.com">rodsmith@rodsbooks.com

    characters, and by enabling use of variable-width as well as monospace fonts. -
  • I would like to be able to specify the volume on which a boot - loader resides using a partition GUID value, but extracting a GUID - from the partition data is harder than extracting the volume's - label or counting up the filesystem numbers.
  • - -
  • Currently, if a filesystem's label comes up empty, rEFInd - substitutes the size, so you get displays like boot - EFI\foo\bar.efi from 90 GiB volume. I'd like to add more - checks to substitute the GPT partition label if the - filesystem label comes up empty.
  • - -
  • Along the lines of the previous item, the - default_selection might be expanded to support some form - of specification of disk types, as in a special entry for any +
  • The default_selection might be expanded to support some + form of specification of disk types, as in a special entry for any optical disk or any external disk, no matter what its name is.
  • It would be useful to be able to specify paths to boot loaders @@ -300,7 +293,13 @@ href="mailto:rodsmith@rodsbooks.com">rodsmith@rodsbooks.com

    pmset to disable the autopoweroff option is claimed - by some to at least partially fix the problem, though.
  • + by some to at least partially fix the problem, though. Using + the --ownhfs installation option may also help in some + cases. + +
  • If you activate BIOS-mode support on UEFI-based PCs, you may find + multiple copies of the BIOS-mode loaders added to your firmware's + boot manager. Only one copy shows up in rEFInd, though.
  • @@ -368,9 +367,6 @@ href="mailto:rodsmith@rodsbooks.com">rodsmith@rodsbooks.com

    Linux's EFI stub loader). Also along these lines, adding drivers for Linux LVM and RAID setups would be useful. -
  • The HFS+ driver returns a volume label of "HFS+ volume", no matter - what the volume's real label is.
  • -
  • This may not be possible, or it may require a new driver, but a way to have the drivers access files (like a Linux loopback mount) is desirable.