Alternatives to Libreboot for all platforms with any license

  • 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. ...

    • GRUB is a boot loader while Libreboot is a BIOS replacement (which starts before the bootloader) Guest • May 2020 Disagree   Agree

    Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD Solaris ... OpenSolaris

    Customizable Text-based USB to NTFS Zero configuration Add a feature

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  • coreboot

    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

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  • gummiboot

    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. ...

    • 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)

    Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Chrome OS BSD

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  • SeaBios

    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

  • Chimera

    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

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  • U-Boot

    The "Universal Bootloader" ("Das U-Boot") is a monitor program. Free Software: full source code under GPL hosted on SourceForge:...

    Free Linux

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  • petitboot

    Petitboot is a platform independent bootloader based on the Linux kexec warm reboot mechanism.

    Free Open Source Linux

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  • XTIDE Universal BIOS

    XTIDE Universal BIOS makes it possible to use modern large ATA hard disks or Compact Flash cards on old PC's.

    • Discontinued
      No recent development, the project site is archived.

    Free Open Source Windows Linux

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