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href="mailto:rodsmith@rodsbooks.com">rodsmith@rodsbooks.com
Originally written: 3/14/2012; last Web page update:
-4/25/2013, referencing rEFInd 0.6.9
+6/27/2013, referencing rEFInd 0.7.0
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!
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systems with a limited number of configurations. Therefore, if you
try rEFInd and run into bugs, please report them to me!
- I have little talent with graphics manipulation programs, so
- rEFInd's boot logo, such as it is, is pretty weak. If you have
- artistic talent and would like to create a rEFInd logo, please feel
- free to send it to me. I won't make any final decision about
- changes until at least June 30 of 2012.
-
rEFIt's original design, and hence rEFInd's design, enables easy
theming by replacing icon files. If you'd like to design a new
theme for rEFInd, feel free to submit it. I might or might not
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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.
+ 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
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+ - I've been receiving reports of blank screens when using rEFInd on
+ some recent Mac models. I've investigated this with the help of one
+ user, and I suspect that Apple has made changes to its firmware
+ that are likely to affect just about any EFI program. I don't know
+ how to fix the problem at the moment, though; I need both
+ documentation and access to an afflicted computer to do the
+ necessary work, and I have neither.
+
- The Gigabyte
Hybrid EFI has a bug that causes the allegedly case-insensitive
StriCmp() function to perform a case-sensitive comparison.
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- - Drivers for additional filesystems are desirable. Given the talk of
- shifting to Btrfs, that should be the priority; however, other
- Linux filesystems, UDF, and perhaps others would all be welcome
- additions. Also along these lines, adding drivers for Linux LVM and
- RAID setups would be useful, too.
-
- - As detailed on the drivers page, there
- are performance issues with the drivers on some systems. I suspect
- that most "real" computers aren't greatly affected (in my tests,
- 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.
+ - Drivers for additional filesystems are desirable. Only XFS and JFS
+ are missing from the major Linux filesystems. UDF would also be a
+ welcome addition, as might drivers for other OSes (say, for the
+ BSDs, especially if BSD developers create a boot loader similar to
+ 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.