Chimera is described as 'Hackintosh bootloader that merges the best features from various branches of Chameleon bootloader, into a new branch based on the latest Chameleon 2.0 RC5 trunk version. It is designed for maximum compatibility across platforms' and is a Boot Manager in the os & utilities category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Chimera for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD and Oracle Solaris apps. The best Chimera alternative is GNU GRUB, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Chimera are EasyBCD, Libreboot, EasyUEFI and coreboot.
The development of LILO as classic bootloader for GNU/Linux systems was restarted in June 2010. Because of the simpleness LILO has some advantages comparing with Grub and Grub2. But nowadays LILO is not the bootloader for all situations. But LILO is longtime proved and stable.
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 Chimera.
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.
A boot editor for the Windows 7/Vista bootloader. Takes the pain out of BCDEDIT.
Written in C++ and licensed under GNU GPL, XOSL (eXtended Operating System Loader) is a user-friendly, window-based graphical boot manager handling large disks and over 30 different operating systems.
Yaboot is a PowerPC bootloader for Open Firmware based machines including New World Apple Macintosh, IBM RS/6000, IBM pSeries and IBM OpenPower machines.
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