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Originally written: 3/14/2012; last Web page update: -12/5/2012, referencing rEFInd 0.5.0

+6/27/2013, referencing rEFInd 0.7.0

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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.
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    like to add detection for Itanium and ARM systems, but I have no way to test such changes.
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  • The code could be more flexible in its handling of the sizes of - various graphical elements, and particularly drawn text. Prior to - version 0.2.2, submenu text was invisible on UEFI-based PCs with - 800x600 and smaller displays because of an inability to properly - crop the graphics fields that hold the text. With version 0.2.2, - I've put a band-aid on this problem by reducing the field size so - that it now works on 800x600 displays, but smaller displays still - suffer from this problem. This is just an example of the - inflexibility of certain layout issues within rEFInd.
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  • Although the ICNS file format used by rEFInd supports multiple image sizes, if a size that rEFInd needs isn't present in the file, rEFInd can't use the icon. The ability to scale images to the desired size would be useful.
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  • A way to set the color of the font would be useful for theming + purposes.
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  • The program's font features could be greatly improved by enabling + use of a standard font format, by enabling use of non-ASCII + characters, and by enabling use of variable-width as well as + monospace fonts.
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  • 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.
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  • 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 +
  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • 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).
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  • Various options (dont_scan_dirs, also_scan_dirs, - scan_driver_dirs, etc.) refer to directories or files, - either on the ESP or on all partitions. A way to identify specific - partitions for these options would be useful in some - situations.
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  • Known bugs that need squashing:
  • New features I'd like to add:
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  • Improvements to the EFI drivers: +
  • Improvements to the EFI drivers:
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    copyright © 2012 by Roderick W. Smith

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    copyright © 2012–2013 by Roderick W. Smith

    This document is licensed under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License (FDL), version 1.3.