126 Like GRUB Good alternative? YES NO 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. ... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD Solaris OpenSolaris No features added Add a feature
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
6 Like coreboot Good alternative? YES NO coreboot is an extended firmware platform that delivers a lightning fast and secure boot experience on modern computers and embedded systems. Free Open Source Linux No features added Add a feature
1 Like gummiboot Good alternative? YES NO 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. ... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Chrome OS BSD No features added Add a feature 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)
1 Like SeaBios Good alternative? YES NO 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. Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD Haiku Booting from USB 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
0 Like U-Boot Good alternative? YES NO The "Universal Bootloader" ("Das U-Boot") is a monitor program. Free Software: full source code under GPL hosted on SourceForge:... Free Linux No features added Add a feature
0 Like XTIDE Universal BIOS Alternative? YES NO 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... Free Open Source Windows Linux No features added Add a feature Discontinued No recent development, the project site is archived.
