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href="mailto:rodsmith@rodsbooks.com">rodsmith@rodsbooks.com
Originally written: 3/14/2012; last Web page update:
-8/12/2012, referencing rEFInd 0.4.5
+10/6/2012, referencing rEFInd 0.4.6
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+ - The support for booting legacy (BIOS) OSes on UEFI-based PCs
+ currently has a number of limitations. Most importantly, it works
+ off of the list of boot devices stored in the computer's NVRAM. I'd
+ prefer to have it scan disks and partitions, as the Mac's legacy
+ boot support does. Also, the UEFI legacy boot code presents empty
+ optical drives and uses generic icons rather than OS-specific
+ icons.
+
- Currently, rEFInd can detect whether it's compiled for x86
or x86-64 systems and displays this information in its
"About" screen (AboutrEFInd() in main.c). I'd
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- - I'd like to find a way to get rEFInd to launch BIOS boot loaders on
- UEFI-based systems. This option currently works only on
- Macs—or at least, I've not gotten it to work on any of my
- UEFI-based PCs. (I've done some experiments to try to get this to
- work, but so far without success. If you'd like to help on this, e-mail me for my
- thoughts.)
-
- The Gigabyte
Hybrid EFI has a bug that causes the allegedly case-insensitive
StriCmp() function to perform a case-sensitive comparison.