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rEFInd - Boot Manager icon

rEFInd - Boot Manager

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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...

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  • Free • Open Source

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  • Mac
  • Windows
  • Linux
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  • Developed by

    US flagRoderick W. Smith

  • Licensing

    Open Source and Free product.

  • Rating

    Average rating of 4.3

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  • Supported Languages

    • English

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Our users have written 3 comments and reviews about rEFInd - Boot Manager, and it has gotten 26 likes

rEFInd - Boot Manager was added to AlternativeTo by dialogues on Jun 17, 2012 and this page was last updated Jul 9, 2021. rEFInd - Boot Manager is sometimes referred to as rEFInd.

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jaredhester
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Aug 27, 2019
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I've tried a bunch of different bootloaders and this was one the easiest ones to work with and people have made some really nice themes for them

WeiHua Liu
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Sep 19, 2022
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Based on my experience, rEFInd has several advantages over GRUB. For example, rEFInd can automatically detect new GNU/Linux installations during boot. This software provides installers for macOS and Linux. However, inexperienced Windows users may find it challenging to set up boot entries in UEFI on their motherboards.

R0tten
Jan 9, 2019
1

Not an install for windows

What is rEFInd - Boot Manager?

rEFInd is a fork of the rEFIt icon 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.

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