Comparison of bootloaders

Different bootloaders

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The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of available bootloaders.

General information

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Name	Developer / Publisher	Current version	Initial release date	Latest release date	License	Cost	Website / documentation
Acronis OS Selector	Acronis International GmbH	?	?	?	Proprietary	49ドル.95 (personal use) 79ドル.99 (commercial, per seat) 299ドル.99 (server)	Official website
Barebox	Sascha Hauer the barebox community	?	?	?	GPL-2.0-only	No cost	Official website
BootManager	?	?	?	?	MIT	No cost	?
BootX (Apple)	Apple Inc.	?	?	?	Proprietary	bundled with macOS	?
BootX (Linux)	Benjamin Herrenschmidt	?	?	?	Proprietary	No cost	?
Clover (fork of rEFIt)	https://github.com/CloverHackyColor/CloverBootloader/graphs/contributors Multi Contributors]	5157	October 3, 2013	29 June 2024	GPLv2/BSD-2-Clause	No cost	Official website Source repository
Das U-Boot	DENX Software Engineering	2025.10 Edit this on Wikidata	6 October 2025 Edit this on Wikidata	GPL-2.0-or-later	No cost	Official website
GRUB Legacy	GNU Project	8 May 2005	GPL-2.0-or-later	No cost
GNU GRUB	GNU Project	2.12^[1] Edit this on Wikidata	1995	20 December 2023	GPL-3.0-or-later	No cost	Official website
Grub2Win	Drummerdp	2.4.2.4	2010	April 2, 2025	GPLv3	No cost	Official website
GRUB4DOS	31 March 2009	GPL-2.0-only ^[a]	Official website
iBoot	Apple Inc.	iBoot-11881.62.2~1	June 29, 2007	December 9, 2024	Proprietary
LILO	BSD-3-Clause
Limine	mintsuki	10.1.1^[3] Edit this on Wikidata	April 6, 2020	13 October 2025	BSD-2-Clause	No cost	Official website
loadlin	GPL-2.0-or-later
NTLDR	Microsoft	July 27, 1993 (Windows NT 3.1)	Proprietary	bundled with Windows
RedBoot	GPL-2.0-or-later (eCos license)
rEFInd (fork of rEFIt)	Roderick W. Smith	0.14.4.2	March 14, 2012	6 April 2024	GPL-3.0-or-later/BSD-3-Clause	No cost	Official website
rEFIt	Christoph Pfisterer	0.14	March 2, 2006	7 March 2010	GPL-2.0-or-later/BSD-3-Clause	No cost	Official website
SYSLINUX	6 October 2014	GPL-2.0-or-later
systemd-boot / Gummiboot	LGPL-2.1-or-later
TianoCore EDK II	BSD-2-Clause
Windows Boot Manager	Microsoft	January 30, 2007 (Windows Vista)	Proprietary	bundled with Windows
XOSL	20 August 2002	GPL-2.0-only

^ While most parts of GRUB4DOS are under GPL-2.0-or-later, the whole software is limited to GPL-2.0-only due to incorporating some code from Linux.^[2]

Technical information

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Note: The column MBR (Master Boot Record) refers to whether or not the boot loader can be stored in the first sector of a mass storage device. The column VBR (Volume Boot Record) refers to the ability of the boot loader to be stored in the first sector of any partition on a mass storage device.

Storage medium support

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Name	Can reside in				Can boot from
Name	ESP (UEFI)	MBR	VBR	Floppy	Hard disk	Second hard disk	Logical partitions	CD-ROM	Floppy	USB	Zip	LAN
Acronis OS Selector	?	?	?	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	?
Barebox	Yes	Yes	No	?	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
BootKey	?	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
BootManager	?	Yes	No	No	Yes	?	?	?	?	?	?	No
BootX (Apple)	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
BootX (Linux)	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Das U-Boot	Yes	Yes	?	?	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
GRUB Legacy	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
GNU GRUB	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
GRUB4DOS	?	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
iBoot	Yes	?	?	?	Yes	?	?	No	?	?	?	?
LILO	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	?
Limine	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
loadlin	?	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
NTLDR	?	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	?	No	No	Yes	Yes	?	?
RedBoot	?	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
rEFInd	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	?	Yes	?	Yes	?	Yes
rEFIt (not maintained)	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	?	No	?	Yes	?	No
SPFdisk	?	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	?	?	Yes	?	?	?
SYSLINUX	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
systemd-boot / Gummiboot	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	?	?	Yes	?	?
Windows Boot Manager	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	?	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	?
XOSL	?	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	?	No	?	No
Name	Can reside in				Can boot from
Name	ESP (UEFI)	MBR	VBR	Floppy	Hard disk	Second Hard disk	Logical partitions	CD-ROM	Floppy	USB	Zip	LAN

Operating system support

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Name	Can boot
Name	MS-DOS	Windows 9x/Me	Windows NT series before Vista	Windows Vista/7/8/10	Linux	ReactOS	MenuetOS	*BSD	macOS
Acronis OS Selector	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	?	?	Yes	Yes
Barebox	?	?	?	?	Yes	?	?	?	?
BootKey	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	?	?	?	?
BootManager	Yes	Yes	Calls NTLDR	Calls Windows Boot Manager	Calls GRUB or LILO	?	?	?	?
BootX (Apple)	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	Yes
BootX (Linux)	?	?	?	?	Yes	?	?	?	?
Das U-Boot	?	?	?	?	Yes	?	?	Yes (FreeBSD)	?
GRUB Legacy and GRUB4DOS	Yes	Yes	Calls NTLDR	Calls Windows Boot Manager	Yes	Calls FreeLoader	Yes	Calls bootloader for some kernels	Yes
GNU GRUB	Yes	Yes	Calls NTLDR	Calls Windows Boot Manager	Yes	Calls FreeLoader	Yes	Yes	Yes
iBoot	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	Yes
LILO	?	Yes	Calls NTLDR	Yes	Yes	?	?	Calls biosboot (FreeBSD, PC-BSD, ...)	?
loadlin	with MEMDISK	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	?	?
Limine	Calls bootloader	Calls bootloader	Calls bootloader	Calls bootloader	Yes	Calls bootloader	Calls bootloader	Calls bootloader	Calls bootloader
NTLDR	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Calls GRUB4DOS	?	?	?	Calls Darwin bootloader^[4]
RedBoot	Yes	Yes	Calls NTLDR	Calls Windows Boot Manager	Yes	Calls FreeLoader	Yes	Yes	Yes
rEFInd (fork of rEFIt)	?	?	Yes	Yes	Yes	?	?	Yes	Yes
rEFIt (not maintained)	?	?	Yes	Yes	Yes	?	?	Yes	Yes
SPFdisk	Yes	Yes	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
SYSLINUX	Yes	Yes	Calls NTLDR	Calls Windows Boot Manager	Yes	?	Yes	via mboot.c32 module [1]	?
systemd-boot / Gummiboot	No	No	Windows Server 2013 64bits with UEFI only	Calls Windows Boot Manager^[5]	Yes	?	?	UEFI only	Yes^[5]
Windows Boot Manager	?	Yes	Calls NTLDR	Yes	Calls GRUB or LILO	?	?	?	?
XOSL	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	?	?	?	?
Name	Can boot
Name	MS-DOS	Windows 9x/Me	Windows NT series before Vista	Windows Vista/7/8/10	Linux	ReactOS	MenuetOS	*BSD	macOS

File-system support

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Non-journaled

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Name	FAT				Minix	ext2	HFS	AFFS	F2FS	YAFFS
Name	FAT12	FAT16	FAT32	exFAT	Minix	ext2	HFS	AFFS	F2FS	YAFFS1	YAFFS2
Acronis OS Selector	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Barebox	Yes	Yes	Yes	?	No	Yes	No	No	No	?	?
BootX (Apple)	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
BootX (Linux)	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Das U-Boot	Yes	Yes	Yes	?	?	Yes	?	?	?	?	?
FreeLoader (ReactOS)	Yes	Yes	Yes	?	?	Yes	?	?	?	?	?
GNU GRUB 2	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	?	?
GRUB Legacy	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	?	?
Grub2Win	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
GRUB4DOS	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	?	?
iBoot	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
LILO	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Limine ^[6]^[7]	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
loader (FreeBSD)	Yes	Yes	Yes	?	?	Yes	?	?	?	?	?
loadlin	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
NTLDR	?	Yes	Yes	?	?	No	No	No	No	?	?
RedBoot	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
rEFInd	Yes^[a]			?	?	Yes^[b]	?	?	?	?	?
rEFIt	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Syslinux	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	?	?
systemd-boot / Gummiboot	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Windows Boot Manager	?	?	Yes	Yes	?	?	No	?	?	?	?
XOSL	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
yaboot	?	?	?	?	?	Yes	Yes	?	?	?	?

Journaled

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Name	NTFS	ext3	ext4	ReiserFS	Reiser4	JFS	XFS	UFS	UDF	HFS+	BeFS	AFS	SFS	UBIFS	JFFS2
Acronis OS Selector	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Barebox	?	Yes	Yes	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	Yes	Yes
BootManager	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
BootX (Apple)	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
BootX (Linux)	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Das U-Boot	?	Yes	Yes	Yes	?	?	?	Yes	?	?	?	?	?	Yes	Yes
FreeLoader (ReactOS)	Yes	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
GNU GRUB 2	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	?	?
GRUB Legacy	No	Yes	patch^[a]	Yes^[b]	No	Yes^[b]	Yes^[b]	Yes^[b]	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Grub2Win	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
GRUB4DOS	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes^[b]	No	Yes^[b]	Yes^[b]	Yes^[b]	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
iBoot	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
LILO	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Limine	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
loader (FreeBSD)	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
loadlin	Yes^[c]	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
NTLDR	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
RedBoot	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	Yes
rEFInd	Partial^[d]	Yes^[d]	Yes^[d]	?	?	?	?	?	?	Yes^[d]	?	?	?	?	?
rEFIt	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Syslinux	Yes	Yes	Partial^[e]	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No
systemd-boot / Gummiboot	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Windows Boot Manager	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	?	No	No	No	No	No	No
XOSL	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
yaboot	?	Yes	Yes	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?

^ Debian patch
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h GNU GRUB 0.97 manual
^ Requires a TSR, such as NTFSDOS
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d rEFInd Features
^ https://wiki.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php?title=Filesystem#ext

Copy-on-write

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Name	btrfs	APFS	ZFS	NILFS	ReFS
Acronis OS Selector	?	?	?	?	No^[8]
Barebox	No	No	No	No	No^[8]
BootManager	?	?	?	?	No^[8]
BootX (Apple)	?	?	?	?	No^[8]
BootX (Linux)	?	?	?	?	No^[8]
Das U-Boot	?	?	Yes	?	No^[8]
FreeLoader (ReactOS)	Yes	?	?	?	No^[8]
GNU GRUB 2	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No^[8]
GRUB Legacy	No	No	No	No	No^[8]
Grub2Win	?	?	?	?	No^[8]
GRUB4DOS	No	No	No	No	No^[8]
iBoot	?	?	?	?	No^[8]
LILO	?	?	?	?	No^[8]
Limine ^[9]^[10]	No	No	No	No	No^[8]
loader (FreeBSD)	?	?	Yes	?	No^[8]
loadlin	No	No	No	No	No^[8]
NTLDR	No	No	No	No	No^[8]
RedBoot	?	?	?	?	No^[8]
rEFInd	Yes^[a]	?	?	?	No^[8]
rEFIt	?	?	?	?	No^[8]
Syslinux	Yes	No	No	No	No^[8]
systemd-boot / Gummiboot	?	?	?	?	No^[8]
Windows Boot Manager	?	No	?	?	No^[8]
XOSL	?	?	?	?	No^[8]
yaboot	?	?	?	?	No^[8]

^ rEFInd Features

Read-only

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Name	cpio	tar	ISO 9660	romfs	SquashFS	cramfs
Acronis OS Selector	?	?	?	?	?	?
Barebox	?	?	?	?	Yes^[a]	Yes
BootManager	?	?	?	?	?	?
BootX (Apple)	?	?	?	?	?	?
BootX (Linux)	?	?	?	?	?	?
Das U-Boot	?	?	?	?	Yes^[b]	Yes
FreeLoader (ReactOS)	?	?	?	?	?	?
GNU GRUB 2	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	?
GRUB Legacy	?	?	Yes^[c]	?	?	?
Grub2Win	?	?	?	?	?	?
GRUB4DOS	?	?	Yes^[c]	?	?	?
iBoot	?	?	?	?	?	?
LILO	?	?	?	?	?	?
Limine	No	No	Yes	No	No	No
loader (FreeBSD)	?	?	?	?	?	?
loadlin	No	No	Yes^[d]	?	?	?
NTLDR	?	?	?	?	?	?
RedBoot	?	?	?	?	?	?
rEFInd	?	?	Yes^[e]	?	?	?
rEFIt	?	?	?	?	?	?
Syslinux	?	?	Yes	?	?	?
systemd-boot / Gummiboot	?	?	?	?	?	?
Windows Boot Manager	No	No	Yes	No	No	No
XOSL	?	?	?	?	?	?
yaboot	?	?	?	?	?	?

^ https://git.lumina-sensum.com/LuminaSensum/barebox/blob/master/Documentation/filesystems/squashfs.rst
^ https://github.com/u-boot/u-boot/commit/c51006130370b48b7eb5a93ada745385aa27f6bf
^ ^a ^b http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/grub.git/tree/stage2/fsys_iso9660.c?h=grub-legacy
^ Requires DOS support / TSR, such as MSCDEX
^ rEFInd Features

Other features

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Name	Advanced command	Scriptable	Supported architecture	Supported executable	Supported protocol	Supported decompression	Others
GRUB Legacy	Yes	No	x86 (PC)	Multiboot 1, Linux zImage, Linux bzImage and others	TFTP	gzip
GRUB 2	Yes	Yes	x86 (PC, EFI, UEFI, coreboot, OLPC), IA-64, ARM (U-Boot, UEFI), PowerPC (OpenFirmware), MIPS, SPARC (OpenFirmware)	Multiboot and others^[11]	TFTP, HTTP^[12]	gzip, xz^[13]
LILO	No	No	x86 (PC)	Linux zImage, Linux bzImage	?	bzip2, gzip
loader (FreeBSD)	Yes	Yes	x86 (PC, EFI, UEFI, coreboot, OLPC), ARM (U-Boot, UEFI), MIPS, PowerPC (OpenFirmware), SPARC v9 (OpenFirmware)	FreeBSD ELF kernel image, Multiboot (incomplete, for Xen image only)^[14]	TFTP, NFS	gzip, bzip2
kexec (Linux)	Depending on user space	Depending on user space	x86, ARM, ARM64, PowerPC, PowerPC 64, IA-64, IBM Z, RISC-V^[15]	Linux bzImage, Multiboot, other ELF image	Depending on configuration and user space	—	The kexec system call can start another kernel, replacing the current running Linux, thus turning a Linux-based operating system into a fancy bootloader.
loadlin	No	No	x86 (PC)	Linux zImage, Linux bzImage	?	gzip
SYSLINUX	via cmd.c32 module	via lua.c32 module	x86 (PC)	Linux zImage, Linux bzImage,^[16] Multiboot,^[17] MBR image^[18]	TFTP	gzip, bzip2, lzo, zip, lzma, ?
Yaboot	No	No	PowerPC (Open Firmware)	Linux ELF image	TFTP	No
RedBoot	Yes	yes (boot only)	ARM, ColdFire, H8300, x86, Freescale/Motorola 68000, MIPS, PowerPC, SH, SPARC, SPARCLite	ELF	TFTP, serial (X-modem)	gzip
Das U-Boot	Yes	Yes	PowerPC, ARM, AVR32, Blackfin, ColdFire, IXP, Leon2, m68k, MicroBlaze, MIPS, NIOS, NIOS2, PXA, x86, RISC-V, StrongARM, SH2, SH3, SH4, ...	EFI, ELF, U-Boot image format, Linux zImage, raw	TFTP, NFS, serial (S-Record, Y-Modem, Kermit binary protocol)	bzip2, gzip, lzma
Barebox	Yes	Yes	ARM, Blackfin, NIOS2, MIPS, x86, PowerPC	ELF, U-Boot image format	TFTP, NFS, serial (S-Record, Y-Modem, Kermit binary protocol)	bzip2, gzip, lz4, xz, lzo
NTLDR	No	No	x86 (PC)	Windows NT kernel image (PE), MBR image	?	?	default bootloader on Windows NT
Windows Boot Manager	No	No	x86 (PC), ARM (only on Windows Mobile remake)	Portable Executable	?	?	Successor of NTLDR; used on Vista and up.
FreeLoader (ReactOS)	No	No	x86 (PC), ARM, PowerPC	?	?	?	clone of NTLDR
Limine	Yes	No	x86 (PC, UEFI), ARM, RISC-V, LoongArch^[19]^[20]	Multiboot 1 and 2, Limine boot protocol, Linux zImage and bzImage^[21]	TFTP	gzip

Notes

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^ Daniel Kiper (20 December 2023). "GRUB 2.12 released" . Retrieved 20 December 2023.
^ "stage2/dosstart.S". GitHub. 2014年10月12日. Retrieved 2021年06月24日. Since we have copied the Linux kernel code and the Linux kernel follows GPL2, so only GPL2 is adoptable and it rules here.
^ "Release 10.1.1". 13 October 2025. Retrieved 21 October 2025.
^ "Chain0 - OSx86".
^ ^a ^b Rod Smith, "Managing EFI Boot Loaders for Linux: Using gummiboot", 5 November 2012.
^ Larabel, Michael (2025年02月17日). "Limine 9.0 Bootloader Drops EXT4 File-System Support". Phoronix . Retrieved 2025年02月17日.
^ Schürrmann, Tim (2025年02月17日). "Bootloader Limine 9.0.0 entfernt Unterstützung für Ext-Dateisysteme". Linux-Magazin . Retrieved 2025年03月07日.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r ^s ^t ^u ^v ^w ^x ^y "Resilient File System (ReFS) overview". learn.microsoft.com.
^ Larabel, Michael (2025年02月17日). "Limine 9.0 Bootloader Drops EXT4 File-System Support". Phoronix . Retrieved 2025年02月17日.
^ Schürrmann, Tim (2025年02月17日). "Bootloader Limine 9.0.0 entfernt Unterstützung für Ext-Dateisysteme". Linux-Magazin . Retrieved 2025年03月07日.
^ "GNU GRUB Manual 2.06: Supported kernels". GNU. Free Software Foundation, Inc. Retrieved 2021年06月24日.
^ "GNU GRUB Manual 2.06: Device syntax". GNU. Free Software Foundation, Inc. Retrieved 2021年06月24日. If you enabled the network support, the special drives (protocol[,server]) are also available. Supported protocols are 'http' and 'tftp'.
^ "GNU GRUB Manual 2.02: Features".
^ WHR. "An experiment to make a Multiboot-compliant kFreeBSD i386 image". SourceForge. Rivoreo. Retrieved 2021年06月24日. Since 10.3-RELEASE, the BTX loader included in distribution supports Multiboot, but only for Xen (the Xen image is a Multiboot-compliant kernel). ... Because this multiboot support in BTX loader is designed for Xen only, it requires the first Multiboot module be original kFreeBSD image. Trying to load a Multiboot kernel without loading any Multiboot modules would resulted in BTX loader complaining 'No FreeBSD kernel provided, aborting'.
^ "Documentation for Kdump - The kexec-based Crash Dumping Solution" (text/plain). The Linux Kernel Archives. Retrieved 2021年06月24日.
^ "Can SYSLINUX Handle Large Kernels?". Syslinux Wiki. Retrieved 2021年06月24日.
^ "Mboot.c32 - Syslinux Wiki". www.syslinux.org. Retrieved 2018年10月12日.
^ "Comboot/chain.c32". Syslinux Wiki. Retrieved 2021年06月24日.
^ Larabel, Michael (2024年08月03日). "Limine 8.0 Bootloader Released With LoongArch Support". Phoronix . Retrieved 2025年02月09日.
^ Schürrmann, Tim (2024年08月06日). "Alternativer Bootloader Limine 8.0.1 unterstützt LoongArch64-Systeme". Linux-Magazin . Retrieved 2025年03月07日.
^ Holwerda, Thom (2024年08月04日). "Limine: a modern, advanced, portable, multiprotocol bootloader and boot manager". OSNews . Retrieved 2025年03月07日.

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Booting firmware

Types	Proprietary firmware Open-source firmware Custom firmware
Interfaces	UEFI BIOS Video BIOS Open Firmware ACPI MultiProcessor Specification APM Legacy Plug and Play AlphaBIOS SRM SFI
Implementations	SeaBIOS Award BIOS American Megatrends AMIBIOS AMI Aptio InsydeH2O Phoenix SecureCore UEFI TianoCore EDK II OpenBIOS Coreboot Libreboot LinuxBoot Kickstart Run-Time Abstraction Services

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Bootloaders

Implementations	Acronis OS Selector Barebox BootManager BootX (Apple) BootX (Linux) GNU GRUB iBoot systemd-boot Limine loadlin MILO NTLDR OpeniBoot Plop Boot Manager RedBoot rEFInd rEFIt SYSLINUX Windows Boot Manager xOSL Yaboot

Partition layouts

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Utilities

Software	flashrom fwupd UEFITool Odin Heimdall
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Network boot

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