Chameleon Bootloader Alternatives for Windows

There are many alternatives to Chameleon Bootloader for Windows and since it's discontinued a lot of people are looking for a replacement. The best Windows alternative is GRUB, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 10 alternatives to Chameleon Bootloader and 14 are available for Windows so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Windows alternatives to Chameleon Bootloader are EasyBCD, rEFInd - Boot Manager, EasyUEFI and GRUB4DOS and WINGRUB.

Chameleon Bootloader

Free • Open Source
Boot Manager

Chameleon is a boot loader for Mac OS X.

It seems that standard boot loaders for Mac OS X either lack many cool features,...

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GRUB
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Free • Open Source
Boot Manager
Mac
Windows
Linux
BSD
Solaris
OpenSolaris
24 GRUB alternatives
GNU GRUB is a multiboot boot loader. It was derived from GRUB, the GRand Unified Bootloader, which was originally designed and implemented by Erich Stefan Boleyn.
- - GRUB is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to Chameleon Bootloader.
- - GRUB is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Chameleon Bootloader.
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GRUB Features
Customizable
Text-based
USB to NTFS
Zero configuration
EasyBCD
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Free Personal • Proprietary
Boot Manager
Windows
20 EasyBCD alternatives
EasyBCD is NeoSmart Technologies multiple award-winning answer to tweaking Windows bootloader. With EasyBCD, almost anything is possible, e.g. to boot a Win7-VHD-image. Setting up and configuring Windows boot entries is simple, and there is no easier way to quickly boot right...
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EasyBCD Features
3 way sync
MBR
Support for Android Things
rEFInd - Boot Manager
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Free • Open Source
Boot Manager
Mac
Windows
Linux
9 rEFInd - Boot Manager alternatives
rEFInd is a fork of the rEFIt boot manager for computers based on the Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) and Unified EFI (UEFI). Like rEFIt, rEFInd is a boot manager, meaning that it presents a menu of options to the user when the computer...
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EasyUEFI
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Freemium • Proprietary
Boot Manager
Windows
20 EasyUEFI alternatives
EasyUEFI owns comprehensive EFI/UEFI boot option management functions, such as create, delete, edit, clean up, backup and restore EFI/UEFI boot options, specifies an one-time boot entry for the next restart, or change EFI/UEFI boot order, all these operations done under Windows...
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EasyUEFI Features
Create bootable Image
Create UEFI bootable drive
GRUB4DOS and WINGRUB
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Free • Open Source
Boot Manager
Mac
Windows
Linux
17 GRUB4DOS and WINGRUB alternatives
GRUB for DOS is the dos extension of GRUB. It enables dos users to run the configuration console directly in real mode. The project also contains an utility called WINGRUB, an GUI intends to help configuring and installing GRUB in the WINDOWS environment.
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Discontinued
It was last updated in 2013.
Grub2Win
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Free • Open Source
Boot Manager
Windows
Linux
18 Grub2Win alternatives
Safely dual boot Windows and Linux without touching the Windows MBR.

Grub2Win installs to Windows 8, Windows 7, XP, 2000 or Vista. It boots native, open source GNU grub version 2.00 code. Everything is contained in one 7 MB directory on your Windows C: drive.

The simple Windows.
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Visual BCD Editor
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Free • Proprietary
Boot Manager
Windows
16 Visual BCD Editor alternatives
Visual BCD Editor - advanced GUI version of bcdedit utility. Automatic boot loader creation - Windows 7|Vista|XP|VHD. Fix boot manager and dual boot problems.
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Visual BCD Editor Features
1. No TrackingVisual BCD Editor will not track you or use your personal data.
2. Ad-freeVisual BCD Editor doesn't contain any form of external advertising.
3. PortableVisual BCD Editor can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
Boot from USB without BIOS
BootIt Bare Metal
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Paid • Proprietary
Boot Manager
Windows
18 BootIt Bare Metal alternatives
BootIt Bare Metal is a boot manager and partition manager software utility. Whither you want to do non-destructive repartitioning or boot multiple operating systems, this is the product for you.
- - BootIt Bare Metal is the most popular commercial alternative to Chameleon Bootloader.
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BootIt Bare Metal Features
1. PortableBootIt Bare Metal can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
Multi boot
burg
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Free • Open Source
Boot Manager
Mac
Windows
Linux
BSD
20 burg alternatives
Burg is a brand-new boot loader based on GRUB. It uses a new object format which allows it to be built in a wider range of OS, including Linux/Windows/OSX/FreeBSD, etc.
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Discontinued
The project is no longer maintained. Last version, released on 18 October 2010, can be still downloaded from Google Code.
bootcfg
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Paid • Proprietary
Boot Manager
Windows
17 bootcfg alternatives
Used to edit boot configuration data on Windows systems. Predecessor of bcdedit. Found on Windows XP and prior versions.
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OSL2000 Boot Manager
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Paid • Proprietary
Boot Manager
Windows
18 OSL2000 Boot Manager alternatives
OSL2000 is an advanced multi boot manager. Using OSL2000 boot manager, you can directly install, boot and manage upto 100 independent OSs in your computer.
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DualBootPRO
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Paid • Proprietary
Boot Manager
Windows
18 DualBootPRO alternatives
A boot editor for the Windows 7/Vista bootloader. Takes the pain out of BCDEDIT.
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Chameleon Bootloader Alternatives for Windows

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EasyUEFI Features

Visual BCD Editor Features

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