Assuming rEFInd starts up correctly, you should see its main screen, which resembles the following:
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If you don't press any key before the timeout (shown on the last line) expires, the default boot loader will launch. This is normally the first item in the menu, but you can adjust the default by editing the configuration file. (In this example, it's the Linux Mint loader, which is further identified by text above the timeout as vmlinuz-3.5.0-17-generic from LINUXMINT.)
+If you don't press any key before the timeout (shown below the icons and description line) expires, the default boot loader will launch. This is normally the first item in the menu, but you can adjust the default by editing the configuration file. (In this example, it's the Ubuntu Linux loader, which is further identified by text above the timeout as vmlinuz-3.5.0-27-generic from UBUNTU BOOT.)
-This display is dominated by the central set of OS tags (icons), which in this example includes tags for OS X, Windows, Mint, and an unkown boot loader. All but the last of these are on hard disks, but the unknown boot loader is on an optical disc, as revealed by the small icons (known as badges) in the lower-right corner of the OS icons.
+This display is dominated by the central set of OS tags (icons), which in this example includes tags for an unknown boot loader, OS X, Windows, and Ubuntu. All but the first of these are on hard disks, but the unknown boot loader is on an optical disc, as revealed by the small icons (known as badges) in the lower-right corner of the OS icons.
-In this example, the Linux Mint tag is selected. You can move the selection left by pressing the left arrow key and right by pressing the right arrow key. If your system has many boot loaders, an arrow icon will appear to the right and/or left of the boot loader list, indicating that the boot loader list will scroll when you move off the edge. (Such an arrow is visible to the right in the sample screen, but not to the left.) You can scroll the list by one line full of icons by using the Page Up or Page Down keys to move left and right, respectively. Moving past the final selection or using the down arrow key moves the selection to the second row of small tags, which launch ancillary programs or perform special actions. If you've moved the selection cursor to the second row, pressing the up arrow key or scrolling past the left edge of the second row moves the cursor to the top row. In this figure, these four tags are present:
+In this example, the Ubuntu tag is selected. You can move the selection left by pressing the left arrow key and right by pressing the right arrow key. If your system has many boot loaders, an arrow icon will appear to the right and/or left of the boot loader list, indicating that the boot loader list will scroll when you move off the edge. (Such arrows are visible to the right and left in the sample screen.) You can scroll the list by one line full of icons by using the Page Up or Page Down keys to move left and right, respectively. Moving past the final selection or using the down arrow key moves the selection to the second row of small tags, which launch ancillary programs or perform special actions. If you've moved the selection cursor to the second row, pressing the up arrow key or scrolling past the left edge of the second row moves the cursor to the top row. In this figure, these five tags are present:
- Launch the EFI shell -
- Produce an information page +
- Launch the tool to create a hybrid MBR (gptsync) -
- Shut down the computer +
- Produce an information page
- Reboot the computer +
- Exit from rEFInd +
The last three of these options are always available by default, but the first depends on the presence of the EFI shell program file, as described earlier. Other ancillary tags may be present on some computers.
+By default, the options to display an information page, shutdown the computer, and reboot the computer are present. Options to launch a shell, launch the Apple recovery utility, and launch the Machine Owner Key (MOK) utility will also appear automatically if these utilities are installed. Options to launch the hybrid MBR tool and to exit from rEFInd are not displayed by default; you must edit the configuration file to enable these features, or to disable those that are displayed by default.
To launch an OS or utility, you should select its tag and then press the Enter key or the space bar.
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If your computer supports Secure Boot, you may find that some of your OSes and tools won't work; they'll produce Access Denied error messages. You can overcome this problem by creating a signing key, signing your binaries with it, and adding the public version of that key to your machine owner key (MOK) list. This process is described on the Managing Secure Boot page.
+If your computer supports Secure Boot, you may find that some of your OSes and tools won't work; they'll produce Secure Boot validation failure error messages. You can overcome this problem by creating a signing key, signing your binaries with it, and adding the public version of that key to your machine owner key (MOK) list. This process is described on the Managing Secure Boot page.