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Originally written: 3/14/2012; last Web page update:
-6/21/2012, referencing rEFInd 0.4.3
+11/6/2012, referencing rEFInd 0.4.7
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User-configurable graphics and icons—you can set your own background, set new icons, and so on.
-Launch EFI boot loaders or, on Macs, launch BIOS-based boot loaders. (I have yet to get the BIOS-launching feature to work on a UEFI-based PC, but it might work on a model I don't own.)
+Launch EFI boot loaders.
+
+Launch legacy (BIOS) boot loaders on Macs. (rEFInd also supports legacy boots on some UEFI PCs; see below.)
Launch options for an external EFI shell or disk partitioner. (See the Installing rEFInd section for information on how to obtain and install these components.)
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- Auto-detection of EFI boot loaders, independently on internal hard disks, external hard disks, and optical discs.
- - Auto-detection of BIOS boot loaders, independently on internal hard disks, external hard disks, and optical discs.
+ - Auto-detection of legacy BIOS boot loaders, independently on internal hard disks, external hard disks, and optical discs.
- Manually via the configuration file
You can select which of these methods to use to construct the rEFInd main boot menu. Although rEFIt supports auto-detection, it does not support manual configuration; and rEFIt's options to enable, disable, and prioritize individual boot loader detection methods are primitive compared to those in rEFInd.
+Support for launching legacy BIOS boot loaders on UEFI PCs with
+suitable CSM support (as of version 0.4.6). This feature requires building
+rEFInd with the TianoCore EDK2 toolkit, which I do for my main binary
+build. Note that some UEFI PCs, such as those with Gigabyte's Hybrid EFI,
+lack a usable CSM.
+
The ability to fine-tune options passed to EFI boot loaders, via manual configuration.
+An option editor to enable you to edit the options passed to an EFI boot loader on a per-boot basis.
+
The ability to specify additional directories to scan for boot loaders and drivers (as of version 0.2.7).
The ability to specify directories to not be scanned for boot loaders, even if they would ordinarily be scanned (as of version 0.4.2).
The ability to re-scan boot loaders, to assist when changing removable media or after making a change to the configuration file with an EFI shell (as of version 0.3.5).
+A configurable delay before scanning for boot loaders, for systems on which there's a delay before disks become available (as of version 0.4.6).
+
The ability to specify an additional icon storage directory, to assist in efforts to customize rEFInd's appearance (as of version 0.3.4).
The ability to set the screen's resolution, within limits imposed by the EFI (as of rEFInd 0.3.0).