Comments on: Customizing rEFIt (an EFI Bootloader – Intel Macs) Slick!

By: sasas

sasas — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 10:07:30 +0000

good

By: new soft

new soft — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 17:22:47 +0000

new soft…

[...]Customizing rEFIt (an EFI Bootloader – Intel Macs) Slick! – Colin Harrington[...]…

By: mesut

mesut — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 11:36:12 +0000

hi
how can I change “refit” image ? actually I want to make this;
black back screen
change or delete refit image
and showing only OS icons
no timeout

how can I do this ?

thanks

By: camelorange

camelorange — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 13:16:48 +0000

Looks nice, thanks.

By: Rick

Rick — Fri, 20 May 2011 12:00:21 +0000

Sorry if this has been covered but what location are you giving the “banner hostname.bmp”? I cannot find the original file…

By: Colin

Colin — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 01:37:43 +0000

I think I had something like this happen to me once, I ended up booting into Linux using the option key (before refit). I had to mount my OSX drive with HFS+ (forced…) and edited a few contents in the refit directory.

I seem to remember that my hostname.bmp was just too big, and once I made that much smaller that it ended up working fine.

Hope you find your way! (as always, use at your own risk…)

By: Stuck

Stuck — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 21:43:59 +0000

Just tried this customization on a macbook pro running Win7 and OSX and ran into a big problem:

After modifying the refit.conf file and adding your ring.bmp and my own hostname.bmp I restarted and rEFIt loads just my hostname.bmp but nothing else, not the OS options to boot to!

If i hold option at startup I can still use BootCamp to choose between my windows partition and the partition now called rEFIt to boot into windows (if I choose rEFIt i get to the same blank screen). Problem is I cannot modify any files on my OSX partition from windows so I can not just get rid of rEFIt so I can boot to OSX without getting through it.

I modified the .const file to:

timeout 20
banner hostname.bmp
selection_big selection-big-ring.bmp
hideui tools shell funcs hdbadges label
legacyfirst

so it’s not like i hid badges under the hideui option. Also I was hoping that the timeout 20 would kick in but i’ve let it sit for 5+ min and no response.

Any ideas what I can do to force a startup into OSX so I can re-tweak rEFIt to try and avoid this problem?

Thanks!!

By: Locksmith

Locksmith — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 13:29:52 +0000

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Good job!
-Locksmith

By: cga

cga — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 09:38:49 +0000

Hi Colin,

I see, thanks.

I’ll try one last time with those proportions.

–
cga

By: Colin

Colin — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 14:49:57 +0000

@cga I had to make my banner 1920×449 instead of 1920×1200. You might try to make yours something like 1280×150 or similar dimensions. I don’t think that the banner is supposed to be a full-size background image, but just the banner image on the top portion of the screen.