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.
The "Universal Bootloader" ("Das U-Boot") is a monitor program. Free Software: full source code under GPL hosted on SourceForg ...
Chimera is a Hackintosh bootloader that merges the best features from various branches of Chameleon bootloader, into a new bra ...
XTIDE Universal BIOS makes it possible to use modern large ATA hard disks or Compact Flash cards on old PC's. You can then enj ...
The PLoP Boot Manager is a small program to boot different operating systems. You can boot the operating systems from harddisk ...
Like coreboot, libreboot is boot firmware intended as a free 'BIOS' replacement for your computer. 'Libre' means 'liberty'. Li ...
SeaBIOS is an open source implementation of a 16bit X86 BIOS. SeaBIOS can run in an emulator or it can run natively on X86 har ...
gummiboot is a simple UEFI boot manager which executes configured EFI images. The default entry is selected by a configured pa ...
GNU GRUB is a multiboot boot loader. It was derived from GRUB, the GRand Unified Bootloader, which was originally designed and ...
Chameleon is a boot loader for Mac OS X. It seems that standard boot loaders for Mac OS X either lack many cool features, or h ...