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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.
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  • 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.)
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  • Launch EFI boot loaders.
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  • 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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    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.
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  • The ability to fine-tune options passed to EFI boot loaders, via manual configuration.
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  • An option editor to enable you to edit the options passed to an EFI boot loader on a per-boot basis.
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  • 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).
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  • 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).
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  • 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).