rEFInd Boot Manager

pandlouk · Dec 2, 2012

rEFInd Boot Manager

is a fork of rEFIt Boot Manager (used on macs), but is more universal and can work on both Macs EFI and PCs UEFI.

rEFInd is a fork of the rEFIt boot manager. Like rEFIt, rEFInd can auto-detect your installed EFI boot loaders and it presents a pretty GUI menu of boot options. rEFInd goes beyond rEFIt in that rEFInd better handles systems with many boot loaders, gives better control over the boot loader search process, and provides the ability for users to define their own boot loader entries.

Features

Support for EFI 1.x and UEFI 2.x computers
Support for Mac and PC platforms
Graphical and text-mode boot selector
Auto-detection of available EFI boot loaders
Directly launch Linux 3.3.0 and later kernels with EFI stub loader support
Set boot-time options (for Mac OS X and Linux via ELILO)
Launch EFI programs such as an EFI shell (available from third parties)
Try before installation via a CD-R image
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rEFInd is a fork of the rEFIt boot manager. As such, it has many features in common with rEFIt. These include the following:

Support for both text-mode and graphical operation.
Auto-detection of EFI and BIOS boot loaders.
User-configurable graphics and icons—you can set your own background, set new icons, and so on.
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.)
Set OS-specific boot options, such as to launch Mac OS X with verbose text-mode debug messages.
Load EFI drivers for filesystems or hardware devices not supported natively by your firmware. (This feature is absent in some builds of rEFIt and in rEFInd prior to version 0.2.7.)
Inclusion of drivers for the Linux ReiserFS and ext2 filesystems in the main package. (These drivers are absent from rEFInd prior to version 0.4.0; and the rEFInd versions don't work on at least some Macs.)
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A really great EFI boot manager. If you have a EFI system and you want to multiboot you must absolutely try this one.
http://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/index.html
http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/

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