rEFInd - Boot Manager

Name: rEFInd - Boot Manager
Rating: 4.3 (3 reviews)

rEFInd is a fork of the http://alternativeto.net/software/refit/ boot manager for computers based on the Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) and Unified EFI (UEFI). Like...

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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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Developed byRoderick W. Smith
LicensingOpen Source and Free product.
RatingAverage rating of 4.3
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jaredhester

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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

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drliu1202

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rEFInd is better than GRUB. GRUB causes compatibility problems on ZFS. And rEFInd can detect new GNU/Linux installation on hard drive disk, while GRUB can not.

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R0tten

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Not an install for windows

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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
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drliu1202 reviewed rEFInd - Boot Manager
rEFInd is better than GRUB. GRUB causes compatibility problems on ZFS. And rEFInd can detect new GNU/Linux installation on hard drive disk, while GRUB can not.
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