rEFIt

rEFIt is an open source, freely distributed and cross-platform boot maintenance toolkit and bootloader (boot menu) that supports UEFI- and EFI-based machines, including Intel Macs and Linux laptops.

Helps you to boot multiple operating systems

The software has been successfully used to easily and quickly boot multiple operating systems from a single machine, including triple-boot setups that used the Boot Camp software from Apple.

Handles UEFI pre-boot environments

With this small system utility, anyone will be able to enter, view and browser an (U)EFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) pre-boot environment. It has been designed from the offset to act as a drop-in replacement for your computer’s boot manager.

Supported operating systems and architectures

rEFIt is a cross-platform software project that supports all GNU/Linux distributions, as well as the Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X operating systems. Both 32-bit and 64-bit hardware platforms are supported at this time.

Under the hood and availability

Being an open-source project, rEFIt is distributed as an universal sources archive, which allows you to install it on any operating system (see the above section for supported OSes), as well as pre-built binary package that requires no installation and can be used on many GNU/Linux systems. In addition, it is distributed as ISO and Mac disk images.

It is no longer under active development

Since end of March 2013, the rEFIt project is no longer under active development. It has been archived for historical references purposes only, in case some what to fork it and create a brand-new UEFI bootloader. We strongly recommend you to try the rEFInd software instead, which can be downloaded for free on Softoware.

What is new in this release:

• This release adds a configuration option for the default boot choice, fixes the Linux/GRUB detection issue, and fixes Snow Leopard 64-bit issues.