I've been working on a couple of major new features:
Install rEFInd from rEFInd
Modify the EFI's boot order
Both features are intended as recovery options (or for first-time installation of rEFInd, for the first one), so they're disabled by default except on the CD-R and USB flash drive images. Prior to releasing these features to an unsuspecting world, I thought I'd give them a limited release. You can obtain the source code from rEFInd's git repository or download pre-release builds:
If you try the USB flash drive or CD-R image, both features will be active. If you try the regular binary file, you'll need to activate the feature(s) you want to try with the showtools line in refind.conf: Add bootorder to enable the boot order modification feature, and install to activate the self-install feature. Note that the self-install feature may be useless on rEFInd installed on a hard disk, since the feature removes the currently-booted volume from the list of possible targets, and does not support installing to external disks.
These new features show up as options on the second row of icons in the main screen. They're described more fully in the documentation -- see the .html files in the binary .zip file or on the image files. Check the bootcoup.html and installing.html files, in particular.
Because these features modify critical functions of your computer, you should be cautious in using them - DO NOT try them on mission-critical hardware! That said, I'd appreciate any bug reports or comments about your experiences trying them on any systems on which you care to try them.
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I've been working on a couple of major new features:
Both features are intended as recovery options (or for first-time installation of rEFInd, for the first one), so they're disabled by default except on the CD-R and USB flash drive images. Prior to releasing these features to an unsuspecting world, I thought I'd give them a limited release. You can obtain the source code from rEFInd's git repository or download pre-release builds:
If you try the USB flash drive or CD-R image, both features will be active. If you try the regular binary file, you'll need to activate the feature(s) you want to try with the
showtoolsline inrefind.conf: Addbootorderto enable the boot order modification feature, andinstallto activate the self-install feature. Note that the self-install feature may be useless on rEFInd installed on a hard disk, since the feature removes the currently-booted volume from the list of possible targets, and does not support installing to external disks.These new features show up as options on the second row of icons in the main screen. They're described more fully in the documentation -- see the
.htmlfiles in the binary.zipfile or on the image files. Check thebootcoup.htmlandinstalling.htmlfiles, in particular.Because these features modify critical functions of your computer, you should be cautious in using them - DO NOT try them on mission-critical hardware! That said, I'd appreciate any bug reports or comments about your experiences trying them on any systems on which you care to try them.
Rod, can you send me a good link to the flsshdrive zip please?
I've released the final version 0.12.0 with these features; you can get it here:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.12.0/
Thanks!