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rEFInd

rEFInd is a fork of the ... Created by Roderick W. Smith

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rEFInd is a fork of the rEFIt boot manager for computers based on the Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) and Unified EFI (UEFI). Like rEFIt, rEFInd is a boot manager, meaning that it presents a menu of options to the user when the computer first starts up, as shown below. rEFInd is not a boot loader, which is a program that loads an OS kernel and hands off control to it.

I decided to fork the earlier rEFIt project because, although rEFIt is a useful program, it's got several important limitations, such as poor control over the boot loader detection process and an ability to display at most a handful of boot loader entries on its main screen. rEFIt's author, Christoph Pfisterer, didn't respond to my e-mails, and the latest official version of rEFIt, 0.14, was released in March of 2010. Thus, it appears that rEFIt has been abandoned. Forking the project to give rEFIt new features seemed like the thing to do.... More Info »

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rEFInd was added by dialogues in Jun 2012 and the latest update was made in Aug 2018. The list of alternatives was updated Jun 2020. It's possible to update the information on rEFInd or report it as discontinued, duplicated or spam.

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about rEFInd · Jan 2019 · Helpful Not helpful 1 Helpful Report as spam

Not an install for windows

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