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@@ -157,6 +157,20 @@ href="mailto:rodsmith@rodsbooks.com">rodsmith@rodsbooks.com
from the partition data is harder than extracting the volume's
label or counting up the filesystem numbers.
+ The default_selection option in refind.conf could be improved by
+ supporting a list of default options, so that if the first item
+ isn't found, rEFInd will try to boot the second one in the list,
+ and so on. This could be handy in case a driver fails to load, or
+ to provide an override in case the user inserts a specific
+ removable disk—by placing the removable disk's name first in
+ the list, it will take precedence over the normal hard disk
+ default.
+
+ 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 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
and/or initial RAM disks relative to the rEFInd directory (or the
boot loader's directory, in the case of initrds).
@@ -193,9 +207,9 @@ href="mailto:rodsmith@rodsbooks.com">rodsmith@rodsbooks.com
implementation, and a dismal one at that, so I'm inclined to just
let it go.
- The Shutdown option works correctly on Macs, but not on UEFI-based PCs.
- On such systems, Shutdown reboots the computer. This should be
- fixed.
+ The Shutdown option works correctly on Macs, but not on UEFI-based
+ PCs. On such systems, Shutdown reboots the computer. This should be
+ fixed.
The media-ejection feature (F12) should be extended to work on
UEFI-based PCs and early Macs. At the moment, it relies on an
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ignoring new media or keeping old media that have been ejected.
This should be investigated and fixed.
- The re-scan feature renders the user interface immobile until
- the re-scan is complete. This is usually just a second or two,
- but it can be longer if an optical disc needs to be spun up.
- Adding a temporary "scanning media" notice would be helpful.
+ The "scanning for new boot loaders" message that appears during the
+ re-scan feature is primitive. Some sort of dynamic icon would be
+ nice, but perhaps impractical, given the single-tasking nature of
+ EFI.
+
+ On my Mac Mini, launching a shell, returning, and performing a
+ re-scan causes the system to be unable to launch the shell again. I
+ have not observed this behavior on UEFI-based PCs. It seems to be
+ caused by a truncated DevicePath to the shell, which includes the
+ shell's pathname but not the device identifier.
The code is in need of review to search for memory leaks and
similar problems.
@@ -256,6 +276,11 @@ href="mailto:rodsmith@rodsbooks.com">rodsmith@rodsbooks.com
I'd like to give the user the ability to set custom options on a
single-boot basis, similar to what's possible in GRUB.
+ A GUI configuration tool would be nice, but it's low on my personal
+ priority list. If you'd like to contribute, I prefer something
+ written in a cross-platform GUI toolkit, so that a single code base
+ can be used on any of the major OSes.
+
Improvements to the EFI drivers:
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the problem is worst with VirtualBox, and the next worst is a
system that uses DUET). Nonetheless,
- I'd like to track down the cause and fix it.
+ I'd like to track down the cause and fix it.
The driver installation procedure could be improved, perhaps by
- adding support for drivers to the install.sh script.
+ adding support for drivers to the install.sh script.
+
+ The HFS+ driver returns a volume label of "HFS+ volume", no matter
+ what the volume's real label is.