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- The rEFInd Boot Manager
That's where rEFInd comes into play rEFInd is a fork of the earlier rEFIt boot manager, which has not seen any development since 2010 Since rEFInd's release, Chrisoph Pfisterer, rEFIt's author, has begun pointing to rEFInd as its successor project
- The rEFInd Boot Manager: Getting rEFInd - rodsbooks. com
Arch Linux —You can obtain rEFInd from the Arch repositories, in both a stable version (the refind package installable via pacman) and an experimental release built from rEFInd's git repository in the Arch User Repository (AUR), under the name refind-efi-git
- The rEFInd Boot Manager: rEFInd Features - rodsbooks. com
rEFInd can auto-detect Linux initial RAM disk files and 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
- The rEFInd Boot Manager: Using rEFInd - rodsbooks. com
On UEFI PCs, rEFInd relies on the computer's NVRAM settings to determine which legacy boot loaders to scan, but rEFInd does tell the firmware to find every BIOS-mode boot option and add it to its NVRAM list
- The rEFInd Boot Manager: Installing and Uninstalling rEFInd
Once you've obtained a rEFInd binary file, as described on the preceding page, you must install it to your computer's EFI System Partition (ESP) (or conceivably to some other location) The details of how you do this depend on your OS and your computer (UEFI-based PC vs Macintosh) The upcoming sections provide details
- The rEFInd Boot Manager: Managing Secure Boot - rodsbooks. com
Unfortunately, it also complicates multi-boot configurations such as those that rEFInd is intended to manage This page describes some Secure Boot basics and two specific ways of using rEFInd with Secure Boot: Using the Shim program and using the PreLoader program
- The rEFInd Boot Manager: Configuring the Boot Manager - rodsbooks. com
This feature is intended for users who want to have rEFInd appear in its own menu, with the version launched in this way behaving differently from the original—for instance, to have a secondary rEFInd that provides boot options hidden by the main one
- The rEFInd Boot Manager: rEFInd and System Integrity Protection
I provide these features in rEFInd as a convenience for developers and other advanced users who have a need to adjust their SIP settings Using rEFInd for this purpose is much faster than booting into the macOS Recovery system to make these adjustments
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