Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name : rEFInd Version : 0.10.3 Upstream Author : Roderick W. Smith <rodsm...@rodsbooks.com> * URL : https://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/ * License : BSD-3-clause and GPL-3+ Programming Lang: C Description : boot manager for EFI-based computers
A graphical boot manager for EFI- and UEFI-based computers, such as all Intel-based Macs and recent (most 2011 and later) PCs. rEFInd presents a boot menu showing all the EFI boot loaders on the EFI-accessible partitions, and optionally BIOS-bootable partitions on Macs and BIOS boot entries on UEFI PCs with CSMs. EFI-compatbile OSes, including Linux, provide boot loaders that rEFInd can detect and launch. rEFInd can launch Linux EFI boot loaders such as ELILO, GRUB Legacy, GRUB 2, and 3.3.0 and later kernels with EFI stub support. EFI filesystem drivers for ext2/3/4fs, ReiserFS, Btrfs, NTFS, HFS+, and ISO-9660 enable rEFInd to read boot loaders from these filesystems, too. rEFInd's ability to detect boot loaders at runtime makes it very easy to use, particularly when paired with Linux kernels that provide EFI stub support. Ubuntu needs-packaging: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1136112 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. Ubuntu PPA package offered by the upstream https://launchpad.net/~rodsmith/+archive/ubuntu/refind Last updated: 2016-04-24 Very nice work :-) compat=9 and DEP-5 copyright Really, it seems we only need to rebuild to upload. Upstream: Rod Smith is also the upstream of gdisk aleady packaged in Debian and has extensive knowledge on booting related topcs as documented in: http://www.rodsbooks.com/ http://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/ http://www.rodsbooks.com/gdisk/ == NOTE == Debian removed refit due to FTBFS: https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/refit This was a popular Mactel boot selector. The original refit web site recommens to use refined now: http://refit.sourceforge.net/ 2013-03-29: As you may have noticed, rEFIt is no longer actively maintained. Please check out rEFInd, a fork that is maintaned and under active development.