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Originally written: 3/14/2012; last Web page update: -4/24/2016, referencing rEFInd 0.10.3

+3/4/2017, referencing rEFInd 0.10.5

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Important: A rEFInd zip file, when uncompressed, creates a directory called refind-version, where version is the version number. This directory includes a subdirectory called refind that holds the rEFInd binary along with another that holds documentation, as well as miscellaneous files in refind-version itself. When I refer to "the refind directory" on this page, I mean the directory with that precise name, not the refind-version directory that is its parent.

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Note: As of version 10.12 ("Sierra"), Apple has renamed its OS X OS to macOS. I continue to use "OS X" to refer to any version of this OS. I've seen reports of rEFInd not working with macOS 10.12; however, my own experience is that it works fine—with the caveat that the upgrade produces a boot coup, as described on this page of the rEFInd documentation,

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I provide RPM and Debian package files for rEFInd; and starting with version 0.8.1, I'm maintaining an Ubuntu PPA 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:

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# rpm -Uvh refind-0.10.3-1.x86_64.rpm
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# rpm -Uvh refind-0.10.4-1.x86_64.rpm

On a Debian-based system, the equivalent command is:

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# dpkg -i refind_0.10.3-1_amd64.deb
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# dpkg -i refind_0.10.4-1_amd64.deb
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Warning: Ubuntu 16.04's sbsigntool package has a bug that causes the sbsign utility to crash randomly. (See this bug report for details.) When installing Ubuntu with Secure Boot active from the PPA, this bug will be triggered and is likely to prevent successful installation. Therefore, I recommend you disable Secure Boot or install from the Debian package (with the sbsigntool package uninstalled) to avoid this problem. This bug does not exist in Ubuntu 15.10 and earlier.

Either command produces output similar to that described for using the refind-install 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. The shim program provided with more recent versions of Ubuntu should work correctly.

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copyright © 2012–2015 by Roderick W. Smith

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copyright © 2012–2017 by Roderick W. Smith

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