coreboot Alternatives

coreboot is described as '(formerly known as LinuxBIOS) is a free software project aimed at replacing the proprietary BIOS firmware found in most computers with a lightweight system designed to perform only the minimum of tasks necessary to load and run a modern 32-bit or 64-bit operating system' and is an app. There are eight alternatives to coreboot for a variety of platforms, including Linux, BSD, Mac, Windows and Chrome OS apps. The best coreboot alternative is GRUB, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like coreboot are Libreboot, Das U-Boot, gummiboot and SeaBios.

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coreboot (formerly known as LinuxBIOS) is a free software project aimed at replacing the proprietary BIOS firmware found in...

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GRUB
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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 coreboot.
- - GRUB is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to coreboot.
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GRUB Features
Customizable
Text-based
USB to NTFS
Zero configuration
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GRUB is a bootloader, not firmware.
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Not a BIOS/UEFI replacement
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Libreboot
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8 Libreboot alternatives
Libreboot is a free software project based on coreboot, aimed at replacing the proprietary BIOS firmware contained by most computers. Libreboot is a lightweight system designed to perform only the minimum number of tasks necessary to load and...
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Das U-Boot
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5 Das U-Boot alternatives
The "Universal Bootloader" ("Das U-Boot"), commonly shortened to U-Boot, is an open source primary bootloader for embedded systems.
- - Das U-Boot is the most popular Android alternative to coreboot.
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Das U-Boot Features
Embeddable
Text-based
Customizable
gummiboot
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7 gummiboot alternatives
gummiboot is a simple UEFI boot manager which executes configured EFI images. The default entry is selected by a configured pattern (glob) or an on-screen menu.
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Discontinued
In May 2015, gummiboot was fully integrated into systemd to form its systemd-boot component that serves as a UEFI boot manager. Following this action, the source code repository of gummiboot was emptied out in July 2015. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gummiboot_(software)
SeaBios
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5 SeaBios alternatives
SeaBIOS is an open source implementation of a 16bit X86 BIOS. SeaBIOS can run in an emulator or it can run natively on X86 hardware with the use of coreboot.
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SeaBios Features
Booting from USB
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SeaBios allows you to boot from other bootable devices, unlike Coreboot. I own a Chromebook, but I wasn't able to boot my USB's from it. So I put my Chromebook into developer mode and installed SeaBios! My USB's are working fine now!
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Chimera
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Free • Open Source
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Mac
20 Chimera alternatives
Chimera is a 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.
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petitboot
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8 petitboot alternatives
Petitboot is a platform independent bootloader based on the Linux kexec warm reboot mechanism. Petitboot supports loading kernel, initrd and device tree files from any Linux mountable filesystem, plus can load files from the network using the FTP, SFTP, TFTP, NFS, HTTP and HTTPS...
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XTIDE Universal BIOS
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Free • Open Source
Windows
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5 XTIDE Universal BIOS alternatives
XTIDE Universal BIOS makes it possible to use modern large ATA hard disks or Compact Flash cards on old PC's. You can then enjoy quiet or noiseless drives with more capacity than you'll ever need for old computers.
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Discontinued
No recent development, the project site is archived.