Unable to change the selection_big image

[Sean Nelson]

I recently updated Yosemite and upgraded rEFInd to 0.8.5 (from 0.8.3). I made no changes to my selection_big image (selection-big.bmp) and it's in the proper location (Volumes/EFI/refind). Is anyone else experiencing this issue? Any suggestions for a solution?

The changed section of my conf file:

# Like the banner option above, these options take a filename of an
# uncompressed BMP image file with a color depth of 24, 8, 4, or 1 bits,
# or a PNG image. The PNG format is required if you need transparency
# support (to let you "see through" to a full-screen banner).
#
selection_big   selection-big.bmp
#selection_small selection-small.bmp

The image:

[Roderick W. Smith]

Thanks for providing the BMP that's failing; that was helpful. It appears that a patch I applied that should have made rEFInd accept more BMP images caused the problem. I've therefore reverted that patch. The updated (reverted) source code is now in git, and here's a binary:

http://www.rodsbooks.com/refind_0.8.5.1_x64.efi

You can copy and rename that over the original, with the caveats noted in the rEFInd installation instructions' section on upgrading. Alternatively, you can convert from BMP to PNG format, which works fine too.

[Sean Nelson]

It works beautifully now. Thanks for all your work!