Limine AlternativesBoot Managers and other similar apps like Limine

Apps similar to Limine include GNU GRUB, which is free and open source. Other options are rEFInd - Boot Manager, Syslinux, Quibble and GRUB4DOS and WINGRUB. In total there are six Boot Managers like Limine for Windows, Linux and Mac.

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  1. GNU GRUB icon
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    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.

    20 GNU GRUB alternatives

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    • BSD
    • Oracle Solaris
    • OpenSolaris
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  2. 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...

    11 rEFInd - Boot Manager alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  3. Syslinux icon
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    The Syslinux Project covers lightweight bootloaders for the MS-DOS FAT filesystem (SYSLINUX), network booting (PXELINUX), booting from the ISO 9660 filesystem (ISOLINUX), and Linux ext2/ext3/ext4 or Btrfs filesystems (EXTLINUX).

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    • Linux
    • Windows
    • MS-DOS
    • FreeDOS
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    Quibble is the custom Windows bootloader - an open-source reimplementation of the files bootmgfw.efi and winload.efi, able to boot versions of Windows from XP to Windows 10 22H2. Unlike the official bootloader, it is extensible, allowing you to boot from other filesystems than...

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    • Windows
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  5. GRUB for DOS is the dos extension of GRUB. It enables dos users to run the configuration console directly in real mode. The project also contains an utility called WINGRUB, an GUI intends to help configuring and installing GRUB in the WINDOWS environment.

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  6. The Plop Boot Manager is a small program to boot different operating systems.

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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