[needs-packaging] rEFInd

[shawn]

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.

URL: http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/
License: BSD License, GNU General Public License version 3.0 (GPLv3)

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

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This bug is tagged needs-packaging which identifies it as a request for a new package in Ubuntu. As a part of the managing needs-packaging bug reports specification, https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/Specs/NeedsPackagingBugs, all needs-packaging bug reports have Wishlist importance. Subsequently, I'm setting this bug's status to Wishlist.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Bob Ziuchkovski (bob-ziuchkovski)]

I'd love to see this pulled into the Ubuntu repos as well. The rEFInd author already packages a deb that works with Ubuntu: see the downloads at http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.6.8 . I use this package on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS without problem. IMHO, it is a lot simpler to use than GRUB2 on UEFI systems.

[Rod Smith (rodsmith)]

I'm rEFInd's maintainer, and I've just prepared a rEFInd PPA:

https://launchpad.net/~rodsmith/+archive/refind

It's still a little rough around the edges, but it gets the job done, and it should improve in the future.

[dino99 (9d9)]

Landed into archive a while back
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/refind