From Fedora Project Wiki
If you want to install rEFInd on your laptop or PC you must have, UEFI on your motherboard. I tested on my laptop, where I use Fedora 18.
Firs check that if you have UEFI by typing on your teminal
ls -l /sys/firmware/efi/efivars/
If output will be something like that:
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 12 06-02 20:35 AcpiGlobalVariable-af9ffd67-ec10-488a-9dfc-6cbf5ee22c2e -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 64 06-02 20:35 AdvancedPage-397faf4e-893e-468f-992d-9acf30c52142 -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 64 06-02 20:35 AdvancedPage-3b3c2158-22b2-4cef-98f4-c79f8d7b266e -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 64 06-02 20:35 AdvancedPage-5bb720c3-e550-42c2-9662-f440345a309e -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 64 06-02 20:35 AdvancedPage-5ed3915b-5575-4efd-ab8d-c455dd439a2e -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 64 06-02 20:35 AdvancedPage-7c2f01c2-1486-4347-bbc2-a8a8d7b1fcb8 ....
you have UEFI. Now we need to obtain an rEFInd