gummiboot Alternatives

gummiboot is described as 'simple UEFI boot manager which executes configured EFI images. The default entry is selected by a configured pattern (glob) or an on-screen menu' and is a Boot Manager in the os & utilities category. There are seven alternatives to gummiboot for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Windows, BSD and Solaris. The best alternative is GRUB, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like gummiboot are rEFInd - Boot Manager, coreboot, Libreboot and Clover EFI bootloader.

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gummiboot is a simple UEFI boot manager which executes configured EFI images. The default entry is selected by a configured...

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GRUB
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23 alternatives to GRUB
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.
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Customizable
Text-based
USB to NTFS
Zero configuration
rEFInd - Boot Manager
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Free • Open Source
Boot Manager
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9 alternatives to rEFInd - Boot Manager
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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coreboot
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Free • Open Source
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8 alternatives to coreboot
coreboot (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.

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Libreboot
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8 alternatives to Libreboot
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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Clover EFI bootloader
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4 alternatives to Clover EFI bootloader
This is EFI-based bootloader for BIOS-based computers created as a replacement to EDK2/Duet bootloader http://www.tianocore.org . To compile it needs to place Clover sources into edk2/ folder.
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Clover EFI bootloader Features
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rEFIt
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Free • Open Source
Boot Manager
Mac
22 alternatives to rEFIt
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 setups with Boot Camp. It also provides an easy way to enter and explore the EFI pre-boot environment.

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Discontinued
rEFIt is no longer maintained since 2013. The author suggested to check out rEFInd - Boot Manager , a fork of the original program.
petitboot
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Free • Open Source
Boot Manager
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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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Libreboot

Clover EFI bootloader

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