rEFInd is a fork of the rEFIt boot manager. Like rEFIt, rEFInd can auto-detect your installed EFI boot loaders and it presents a pretty GUI menu of boot options. rEFInd goes beyond rEFIt in that rEFInd better handles systems with many boot loaders, gives better control over the boot loader search process, and provides the ability for users to define their own boot loader entries.
Features
- Support for EFI 1.x and UEFI 2.x computers
- Support for Mac and PC platforms
- Graphical and text-mode boot selector
- Auto-detection of available EFI boot loaders
- Directly launch Linux 3.3.0 and later kernels with EFI stub loader support
- Maintenance-free Linux kernel updates -- boot-time auto-detection means that no configuration file changes are needed after a kernel update
- Manually edit boot-time options
- Launch EFI programs such as an EFI shell (available from third parties)
- Launch OS X and Windows recovery tools
- Reboot into the firmware setup utility (on some UEFIs)
- Try before installation via a CD-R or USB flash drive image
- Secure Boot support (requires separate shim or PreLoader program)
- Includes EFI drivers for ext2/3fs, ext4fs, ReiserFS, Btrfs, HFS+, NTFS, and ISO-9660
- Download rEFInd as a zipper
- Unzip rEFInd to a USB flash drive.
- Reboot in Recovery Mode (while powering up, press Cmd(⌘)+R).
- Open the terminal
- Go to the rEFInd directory in the pendrive
- Run
./refind-install - Follow the instructions
- Reboot
- Open the terminal
- Create a directory using
mkdir mnt. - Mount the EFI partition in that directory using the command
sudo mount -t msdos /dev/disk0s1 mnt. - Go to the
~/mnt/EFI/refinddirectory. - Edit the
refind.confconfiguration file and save it - reboot