How to make CD or DVD appear on EFI menu on VMWare?

[dragomerlin]

I've just installed rEFInd and works as expected, but in the menu only appears start Lion, reboot or shutdown. I've added the iso to virtual drive and removed the # from hdbios and cd on refind.conf but still the same.

[Roderick W. Smith]

Sorry for the delay in responding; somehow this post slipped through and I didn't notice it until today.

I suspect you've not updated your configuration file correctly. To enable BIOS-mode booting, you do not want to remove the "#" from the lines that describe the options; instead, you want to add the keywords to the subsequent token. That is, the configuration file looks like this:

# Which types of boot loaders to search, and in what order to display them:
#  internal      - internal EFI disk-based boot loaders
#  external      - external EFI disk-based boot loaders
#  optical       - EFI optical discs (CD, DVD, etc.)
#  hdbios        - BIOS disk-based boot loaders
#  biosexternal  - BIOS external boot loaders (USB, eSATA, etc.)
#  cd            - BIOS optical-disc boot loaders
#  manual        - use stanzas later in this configuration file
# Default is internal,external,optical
#
#scanfor internal,external,optical

It sounds like you've done this:

# Which types of boot loaders to search, and in what order to display them:
#  internal      - internal EFI disk-based boot loaders
#  external      - external EFI disk-based boot loaders
#  optical       - EFI optical discs (CD, DVD, etc.)
hdbios        - BIOS disk-based boot loaders
#  biosexternal  - BIOS external boot loaders (USB, eSATA, etc.)
cd            - BIOS optical-disc boot loaders
#  manual        - use stanzas later in this configuration file
# Default is internal,external,optical
#
#scanfor internal,external,optical

If so, you've done it wrong; you should do this instead:

# Which types of boot loaders to search, and in what order to display them:
#  internal      - internal EFI disk-based boot loaders
#  external      - external EFI disk-based boot loaders
#  optical       - EFI optical discs (CD, DVD, etc.)
#  hdbios        - BIOS disk-based boot loaders
#  biosexternal  - BIOS external boot loaders (USB, eSATA, etc.)
#  cd            - BIOS optical-disc boot loaders
#  manual        - use stanzas later in this configuration file
# Default is internal,external,optical
#
scanfor internal,external,optical,hdbios,cd

The key is the change to the "scanfor" line, which is now uncommented and includes the "hdbios" and "cd" items.

Note also that there's a bug in 0.4.3 and 0.4.4 that causes BIOS booting on Macs to fail. I believe I've fixed this bug, but I'd appreciate some testing. The fixed binary is available from:

http://www.rodsbooks.com/refind-bin-0.4.4.1.zip