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.
EasyBCD Alternatives
EasyBCD is described as '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' and is a very popular Boot Manager in the os & utilities category. There are more than 10 alternatives to EasyBCD for Windows, Linux, Mac and BSD. The best EasyBCD alternative is rEFInd - Boot Manager, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like EasyBCD are EasyUEFI, Bootice, Visual BCD Editor and Grub2Win.
Alternatives list
18 Chimera alternatives
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.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
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- Discontinued
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- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
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21 rEFIt alternativesrEFIt 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 setups with Boot Camp. It also provides an easy way to enter and explore the EFI pre-boot environment.
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 go through is bigger on Windows Vista or newer, where the necessary dialogs are often hidden one level deeper...
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Windows
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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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