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href="mailto:rodsmith@rodsbooks.com">rodsmith@rodsbooks.com
Originally written: 3/14/2012; last Web page update:
-6/27/2013, referencing rEFInd 0.7.0
+8/25/2013, referencing rEFInd 0.7.4
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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.
+ that are likely to affect just about any EFI program. I don't have
+ a definitive solution, but at least one user has reported that
+ removing rEFInd's drivers has caused the problem to go into
+ remission.
The Gigabyte
Hybrid EFI has a bug that causes the allegedly case-insensitive
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adding a check for duplicate filesystem UUIDs to the
partition-scanning code.
+ Some Macs experience problems with waking up from suspend states
+ when rEFInd is installed. Unfortunately, I lack the hardware to
+ test and experiment with this (my only Intel-based Mac doesn't
+ exhibit this problem), so I can't fix this myself. Using
+ pmset to disable the autopoweroff option is
+ claimed
+ by some to at least partially fix the problem, though.
+
New features I'd like to add:
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+Improvements to gptsync, install.sh, or other
+ support tools:
+
+
+
+ - The gptsync program can return misleading error codes
+ under some circumstances, such as when it makes no changes to the
+ partition table. Fix this.
+
+ - When updating a system with Secure Boot via an RPM or Debian
+ package, the RPM installation script can detect rEFInd's existing
+ shim or PreLoader program and pass options to install.sh
+ to try to copy these programs over themselves. This results in a
+ message that the copy was over the same file and an error message
+ that there were problems with the installation, although this isn't
+ really the case.
+
+ - A Mac-specific package is highly desirable.
+
+
+