26 Like PLoP Boot Manager Good alternative? YES NO The PLoP Boot Manager is a small program to boot different operating systems. You can boot the operating systems from harddisk, floppy, CD/DVD or from USB. You can start... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux No features added Add a feature It can even help to boot from USB device on old pcs that do not boot from usb. Guest • Jul 2016 Disagree Agree
10 Like Grub Customizer Good alternative? YES NO Grub Customizer is a graphical interface to configure the GRUB2/BURG settings and menuentries. Free Open Source Linux No features added Add a feature
5 Like Visual BCD Editor Good alternative? YES NO 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. Free Windows Boot from USB without BIOS Add a feature
13 Like Bootice Good alternative? YES NO Bootice - utility to modify or backup/restore your MBR (Master Boot Record) or PBR (Partition Boot Record). With Bootice, you can easily change your MBR/PBR to... Free Windows No features added Add a feature
3 Like BURG Good alternative? YES NO 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... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD No features added Add a feature Discontinued The project is no longer maintained. Last version, released on 18 October 2010, can be still downloaded from Google Code.
2 Like Extended Operating System Loader YES NO 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... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux No features added Add a feature Discontinued Since XOSL is no longer maintained, but still usable, a modified version has stemmed form the original one: see https://sourceforge.net/projects/xosl2/
5 Like Chameleon Bootloader Good alternative? YES NO Chameleon is a boot loader for Mac OS X. It seems that standard boot loaders for Mac OS X either lack many cool features, or have many cool features, but are... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux No features added Add a feature
6 Like Grub2Win Good alternative? YES NO 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... Free Open Source Windows Linux No features added Add a feature
1 Like Chimera Good alternative? YES NO 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... Free Open Source Mac No features added Add a feature
4 Like rEFIt Good alternative? YES NO rEFIt is a boot menu and maintenance toolkit for EFI-based machines like the Intel Macs. You can use it to boot multiple operating systems easily, including triple-boot... Free Open Source Mac No features added Add a feature Discontinued rEFIt is no longer maintained since 2013. The author suggested to check out http://alternativeto.net/software/refind/ , a fork of the original program.
1 Like BellaVista Good alternative? YES NO Many system developers complain about repetitive settings of their testing Windows workstations to make them usable for testing software. Number of dialogs you need to... Free Windows No features added Add a feature
1 Like Linux Loader Good alternative? YES NO 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... Free Open Source Linux No features added Add a feature
0 Like Dabid's Multiboot Alternative? YES NO Dabid's Multiboot is a GUI substitute for bootcfg, popular in France. This tool works as a simplified editor for the boot.ini file (where settings for WinNT... Free Windows No features added Add a feature Discontinued
0 Like Partita 2000 Alternative? YES NO Partita 2000 is a tiny boot manager with a Y2K patch for old BIOSes. It features a timed autoboot and can automatically change partition type to hidden for selected... Free Mac Windows Linux No features added Add a feature Discontinued The project seems to be no longer updated. Last version can be still downloaded from the official website, in the Early Work section.
0 Like Yaboot Good alternative? YES NO Yaboot is a PowerPC bootloader for Open Firmware based machines including New World Apple Macintosh, IBM RS/6000, IBM pSeries and IBM OpenPower machines. Free Open Source Linux No features added Add a feature
