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rEFInd is a boot manager for UEFI computer that will allow you to choose between Windows, Linux and Mac OS X, and other operating systems when you boot your computer, it can auto-detect your installed operating systems and presents a pretty GUI menu these operating systems. rEFInd is one of the most popular multi-boot managers on the market.

Under Linux and Mac OS X operating systems, you can use refind-install script to install rEFInd, it automatically copies rEFInd's files to the EFI System Partition (ESP) and makes changes to the firmware's NVRAM settings so that rEFInd will start the next time you boot. If the refind-install script does not work properly or you want to install it using Windows, you may need to use EasyUEFI to complete the installation and configuration. EasyUEFI is a Windows software for users to manage EFI boot options and ESP partitions, it is the tool recommended by rEFInd official. Below we'll show you how to set up multi-boot of Windows, Linux and Mac using rEFInd and EasyUEFI.

Tutorial to set up multi-boot of Windows, Linux and Mac using rEFInd and EasyUEFI.

Step 1. Download rEFInd from rEFInd's official website, and unzip it if it is a compressed package.

Navigate to the refind folder in /EFI/EFI and add the minimal black theme per the instructions in the readme. If you want to clean it up so that only 3 the boot options for Ubuntu, Windows 10, and macOS show on the rEFInd menu (it will show all.efi options in your system) then add the following code to your refind.conf file.

Step 2. Download, install and run EasyUEFI, click the button, and then click the button.

Step 3. Select the EFI System Partition (ESP) where you want to install rEFInd in the disk/partition list, then click the 'Open' button to open the EFI System Partition Explorer.

Step 4. Right-click on the EFI directory and select 'Upload'.

Step 5. Select the refind in the directory extracted from the rEFInd compressed file, then click 'OK' button to upload it.

• Restart your Mac and hold the alt key to get into your Mac’s boot menu. Now you should see your Mac’s drive and your Linux drive in there ( and the USB if you didn’t unplug it ). It’s easy to recognize which is which because your Mac’s drive will be named whatever you named it and the Linux drive will be most likly called EFI boot.
• Note: 1) Better install rEFInd on EFI partition, since around 200 MB of unused disk space is sitting idle there. Also use “ bootx64.efi ” file, which makes things a lot easier for Mac machine’s Startup Manager. 2) For Windows or Linux installation, check rEFInd installation document page. 3) Copy a desired.icns file from “ EFI - boot.
• Note: These instructions are for Mac models with 64 bit EFI firmware. In other words, if your Mac has Mountain Lion (OS X 10.8) or a newer version OS X (macOS) installed, then you can use these instructions. Instead of using rEFInd, you can use the Startup Manager to boot most Linux distributions. The Startup Manager is contained in the the.

Step 6. After the upload is complete, right-click 'refind.conf-sample' in the refind directory and select 'Rename'.

Step 7. In the dialog box that pops up, rename 'refind.conf-sample' to 'refind.conf', and then click 'OK'.

Step 8. After all the above operations are completed, click the 'Exit' button to close the EFI System Partition Explorer.

Step 9. Return to the main page of the program, click the button, then click the button.

Step 10. In this page, select the type as 'Linux or other OS', enter 'rEFInd' as the description, select the ESP partition that rEFInd has been copied into, then click the 'Browse' button and select 'EFIrefindrefind_*.efi' as the file path (Please note that you need to select the corresponding efi file according to the architecture of your computer).

Step 11. After completing the settings, click 'OK' to create the boot option, then move rEFInd to the top of the boot order list as the priority startup item.

Step 12. Restart the computer, refind will start and display the multi-boot menu.

As described above, you can set up multi-boot of Windows, Linux and Mac using rEFInd and EasyUEFI easily, EasyUEFI is a surprise for users who use rEFInd for multi-boot management.

A next-generation open source rEFIt UEFI boot manager for Linux, Windows and Mac machines

What's new in rEFInd 0.9.2:

• Soon after releasing 0.9.1, I started receiving bug reports about problems with it and Shim 0.8. (See this thread for one such report.) It turns out that the problem was not a new bug in rEFInd, but rather a change from Shim 0.7 to Shim 0.8 that made it next to useless with rEFInd. Specifically, Shim 0.8 now de-registers itself from the EFI after a follow-on program launches another one. This is done to avoid problems in a boot path in which Shim launches fallback.efi, which in turn launches another Shim. This creates a new problem, though: rEFInd can validate just one binary before it's 'cut off' from Shim. Since rEFInd's drivers are binaries, if you use a single driver, that means that you won't be able to launch anything that requires validation via Shim. I quickly discovered a workaround, which I've implemented in this release. I consider this a 'band-aid' patch, though, because it relies on a quirk of Shim's logic to bypass its de-registration. As such, the workaround in this release may break with a future Shim. A true fix will take longer to develop. I want to release this workaround version to head off further problems in the near term, though. This version also introduces a new feature, which is also Shim-related: Since version 0.7, Shim has supported launching binaries other than grubx64.efi by passing them on the command line. (Actually, Shim 0.4 supported this, but it required a broken path specification.) I've added support for this feature to install.sh: Adding the --keepname option to install.sh causes the script to preserve rEFInd's regular filename and to register the approprirate follow-on parameters to have Shim launch rEFInd by that name. This works, but is likely to be more delicate than using the default Shim follow-on name of grubx64.efi. The advantage, of course, is that rEFInd needn't 'lie' about its name, which makes for less confusion in filenames. For the moment, the RPM and Debian packages I build do not use this new naming feature, since I can't be sure what version of Shim might be picked up. These changes do not affect users who do not use Secure Boot.

rEFInd is an open source boot manager or boot loader that supports Linux, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows operating systems. It’s a fork of the well known rEFIt boot manager, but engineered to support UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface)-based machines.

The application lets users to manually edit and set boot-time options, try Live operating systems that are distributed on bootable CD discs or USB flash drives, launch Linux 3.3.0 and later kernels that are built with EFI stub loader support.

Features at a glance

Key features include support for Secure Boot, which depends on a separate PreLoader or shim program, ability to launch MS Windows and Macintosh recovery utilities, as well as third-party EFI programs like an EFI shell.

When compared with rEFIt, we can immediately notice that rEFInd is able to better handle UEFI-based machines that contain multiple bootloaders and automatically detects installed EFI boot managers. In addition, it provides both text-mode and graphical boot prompts.

In more technical terms, the application features support for EFI 1.x and UEFI 2.x machines, as well as both PCs and Mac platforms. It also supports a wide range of file systems, including EXT2, EXT3, EXT4, Btrfs, ReiserFS, ISO-9660, and HFS+.

Another interesting feature is the ability to reboot into the firmware setup utility of specific UEFIs. Furthermore, the application supports maintenance-free Linux kernel updates, which means that there no need to manually configure certain boot parameters after a kernel update.

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Conclusions

All in all, rEFInd is yet another great UEFI boot loader, designed as a drop-in replacement for the GRUB (GRand Unified Bootloader) software. It’s somehow similar to the gummiboot boot manager, but it includes even more features, multiple configuration options, as well as support for numerous filesystems and operating systems. It is navigable with the keyboard and supports custom background images.

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