From: srs5694 Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2013 21:18:53 +0000 (-0500) Subject: Version 0.6.6 release. X-Git-Url: https://code.delx.au/refind/commitdiff_plain/e623f368c6089696dc99c507834a668fee159fed Version 0.6.6 release. --- diff --git a/Make.common b/Make.common index e5d1cc4..08aa5fc 100644 --- a/Make.common +++ b/Make.common @@ -3,10 +3,10 @@ # Common make rules for building with gnu-efi # -EFIINC = /usr/include/efi -GNUEFILIB = /usr/lib64 -EFILIB = /usr/lib64 -EFICRT0 = /usr/lib64 +EFIINC = /usr/local/include/efi +GNUEFILIB = /usr/local/lib +EFILIB = /usr/local/lib +EFICRT0 = /usr/local/lib HOSTARCH = $(shell uname -m | sed s,i[3456789]86,ia32,) ARCH := $(HOSTARCH) diff --git a/NEWS.txt b/NEWS.txt index c03d9ca..b1ee931 100644 --- a/NEWS.txt +++ b/NEWS.txt @@ -1,6 +1,12 @@ -0.6.6 (?/??/2013): +0.6.6 (1/26/2013): ------------------ +- rEFInd now ignores the fallback boot loader (EFI/BOOT/bootx64.efi or + EFI/BOOT/bootia32.efi) if it's identical to another boot loader on + the same volume. This is intended to help unclutter the display on + systems that run Windows, since Windows tends to duplicate its own boot + loader under the fallback name. + - Added new "font" token to refind.conf, which enables specifying a font in the form of a PNG file. This file must contain monospace glyphs for the 95 characters from ASCII 32 to 126 (space through tilde), inclusive, plus diff --git a/docs/refind/automatic-submenu.png b/docs/refind/automatic-submenu.png index cb687ae..df2a87d 100644 Binary files a/docs/refind/automatic-submenu.png and b/docs/refind/automatic-submenu.png differ diff --git a/docs/refind/bootmode.html b/docs/refind/bootmode.html index cc2239d..96e5fd7 100644 --- a/docs/refind/bootmode.html +++ b/docs/refind/bootmode.html @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ href="mailto:rodsmith@rodsbooks.com">rodsmith@rodsbooks.com

Originally written: 3/14/2013; last Web page update: -1/16/2012, referencing rEFInd 0.6.5

+1/26/2012, referencing rEFInd 0.6.6

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@@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ href="mailto:rodsmith@rodsbooks.com">rodsmith@rodsbooks.com

I've actually cut quite a few lines from this output; there are a total of 60 EFI: mem## lines on this computer. (Another of my computers has 148 such lines!) A BIOS-based computer will lack most or all of these lines, and certainly the EFI: mem## lines. I've heard of some BIOS-based computers that produce the final EFI Variables Facility line, though.

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One caveat exists to these tests: It's possible to boot Linux in EFI mode but disable the EFI features that create the /sys/firmware/efi directory and the copious EFI output in dmesg. This can happen because your kernel was compiled without EFI support or because you've added the noefi line to your existing BIOS boot loader configuration. To the best of my knowledge, no major Linux distribution ships with EFI support disabled in either of these ways, so chances are your tests won't mislead you to thinking you're using BIOS mode unless you've recompiled your kernel or deliberately added a noefi parameter to your boot loader configuration.

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One caveat exists to these tests: It's possible to boot Linux in EFI mode but disable the EFI features that create the /sys/firmware/efi directory and the copious EFI output in dmesg. This can happen because your kernel was compiled without EFI support or because you've added the noefi line to your existing BIOS boot loader configuration. Some of these features will also be absent if the efivars driver is not built into the kernel and is not loaded as a module. Typing modprobe efivars should load this module, so you might try that before concluding you've booted in BIOS mode. To the best of my knowledge, no major Linux distribution ships with EFI support disabled in any of these ways, so chances are your tests won't mislead you to thinking you're using BIOS mode unless you've recompiled your kernel or deliberately added a noefi parameter to your boot loader configuration.

Identifying Your Windows Boot Mode

diff --git a/docs/refind/configfile.html b/docs/refind/configfile.html index a1dbf40..4a05a9d 100644 --- a/docs/refind/configfile.html +++ b/docs/refind/configfile.html @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ href="mailto:rodsmith@rodsbooks.com">rodsmith@rodsbooks.com

Originally written: 3/14/2012; last Web page update: -1/16/2013, referencing rEFInd 0.6.5

+1/26/2013, referencing rEFInd 0.6.6

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@@ -203,6 +203,11 @@ timeout 20 shell, gptsync, apple_recovery, mok_tool, about, exit, shutdown, and reboot Specifies which tool tags to display on the second row. shell launches an EFI shell, gptsync launches a tool that creates a hybrid MBR, apple_recovery boots the OS X Recovery HD, mok_tool launches a tool to manage Machine Owner Keys (MOKs) on systems with Secure Boot active, about displays information about the program, exit terminates rEFInd, shutdown shuts down the computer (or reboots it, on UEFI PCs), and reboot reboots the computer. The tags appear in the order in which you specify them. The default is shell, apple_recovery, mok_tool, about, shutdown, reboot. Note that the shell, apple_recovery, mok_tool, and gptsync options all require the presence of programs not included with rEFInd. See the "Installing Additional Components" section of the Installing rEFInd page for pointers to the shell and gptsync programs. The apple_recovery option will appear only if you've got an Apple Recovery HD partition (which has a boot loader called com.apple.recovery.boot/boot.efi). See the Secure Boot page for information on Secure Boot and MOK management. + + font + font (PNG) filename + You can change the font that rEFInd uses in graphics mode by specifying the font file with this token. The font file should exist in rEFInd's main directory and must be a PNG-format graphics file holding glyphs for all the characters between ASCII 32 (space) through 126 (tilde, ~), plus a glyph used for all characters outside of this range. See the Theming rEFInd page for more details. + textonly none or 0 @@ -251,7 +256,7 @@ timeout 20 dont_scan_dirs or don't_scan_dirs directory path(s) - Adds the specified directory or directories to a directory "blacklist"—these directories are not scanned for boot loaders. You may optionally precede a directory path with a volume name and a colon to limit the blacklist to that volume; otherwise all volumes are affected. For instance, EFI/BOOT prevents scanning the EFI/BOOT directory on all volumes, whereas ESP:EFI/BOOT blocks scans of EFI/BOOT on the volume called ESP but not on other volumes. You can use a filesystem number, as in fs0, in place of a volume name. This token may be useful to keep duplicate boot loaders out of the menu (say, if EFI/BOOT/bootx64.efi is a duplicate of another boot loader); or to keep drivers or utilities out of the boot menu, if you've stored them in a subdirectory of EFI. This option takes precedence over also_scan_dirs; if a directory appears in both lists, it will not be scanned. + Adds the specified directory or directories to a directory "blacklist"—these directories are not scanned for boot loaders. You may optionally precede a directory path with a volume name and a colon to limit the blacklist to that volume; otherwise all volumes are affected. For instance, EFI/BOOT prevents scanning the EFI/BOOT directory on all volumes, whereas ESP:EFI/BOOT blocks scans of EFI/BOOT on the volume called ESP but not on other volumes. You can use a filesystem number, as in fs0, in place of a volume name. This token may be useful to keep duplicate boot loaders out of the menu; or to keep drivers or utilities out of the boot menu, if you've stored them in a subdirectory of EFI. This option takes precedence over also_scan_dirs; if a directory appears in both lists, it will not be scanned. dont_scan_files or don't_scan_files diff --git a/docs/refind/drivers.html b/docs/refind/drivers.html index ffb532e..189347e 100644 --- a/docs/refind/drivers.html +++ b/docs/refind/drivers.html @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ href="mailto:rodsmith@rodsbooks.com">rodsmith@rodsbooks.com

Originally written: 4/19/2012; last Web page update: -1/16/2013, referencing rEFInd 0.6.5

+1/26/2013, referencing rEFInd 0.6.6

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diff --git a/docs/refind/features.html b/docs/refind/features.html index a0ffa72..9456f8b 100644 --- a/docs/refind/features.html +++ b/docs/refind/features.html @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ href="mailto:rodsmith@rodsbooks.com">rodsmith@rodsbooks.com

Originally written: 3/14/2012; last Web page update: -1/16/2013, referencing rEFInd 0.6.5

+1/26/2013, referencing rEFInd 0.6.6

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@@ -161,6 +161,8 @@ lack a usable CSM.
  • Additional OS icons (all of which are Linux distributions, at least so far). This can make it easier to find a specific distribution in the boot list if you've installed multiple Linux distributions.
    • +
  • Beginning with version 0.6.6, support for loading user-defined fonts, in the form of PNG files containing ASCII characters 32 through 126 plus a glyph to be used for values outside that range.
    • +
  • The ability to auto-detect Linux initial RAM disk files and to read Linux kernel options from a refind_linux.conf file. These features support (nearly) automatic handling of Linux kernels with embedded EFI stub loader support (a new feature with Linux 3.3.0).
  • Fixes to display problems on many UEFI-based PCs.
    • @@ -169,6 +171,8 @@ lack a usable CSM.
  • Improved detection of itself, to keep rEFInd out of its own boot menu.
    • +
  • Detection of a fallback boot loader (EFI/BOOT/bootx64.efi or EFI/BOOT/bootia32.efi) that's redundant with another boot loader, to keep the fallback boot loader out of menus when it's unnecessary.
    • +
  • An "exit" option (disabled by default), so that you can return to whatever shell or boot manager you used to launch rEFInd, should this ability be desirable. (This feature first appeared in rEFInd 0.2.4.)
  • Drivers for ISO-9660, HFS+, and ext4fs, which are not included in rEFIt. (The ISO-9660 driver is based on code from the rEFIt project, but was never completed by its original author. It was completed by Oracle for VirtualBox. The ext4fs driver is derived from the rEFIt ext2fs driver.)
    • diff --git a/docs/refind/getting.html b/docs/refind/getting.html index bf803e7..39157d4 100644 --- a/docs/refind/getting.html +++ b/docs/refind/getting.html @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ href="mailto:rodsmith@rodsbooks.com">rodsmith@rodsbooks.com

    Originally written: 3/14/2012; last Web page update: -1/16/2013, referencing rEFInd 0.6.5

    +1/26/2013, referencing rEFInd 0.6.6

    I'm a technical writer and consultant specializing in Linux technologies. This Web page is provided free of charge and with no annoying outside ads; however, I did take time to prepare it, and Web hosting does cost money. If you find this Web page useful, please consider making a small donation to help keep this site up and running. Thanks!

    @@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ href="mailto:rodsmith@rodsbooks.com">rodsmith@rodsbooks.com