Comparison of boot loaders

Comparison of boot loaders

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

Features

Name License It can reside in Boot from Can boot
MBR only MBR / VBR Floppy Hard disk Second Hard disk Logical partitions CD-ROM Floppy USB Zip LAN MS-DOS Windows 9x/Me Windows NT series Windows Vista/7 Linux ReactOS MenuetOS *BSD Mac OS X
Acronis OS Selector Proprietary ? ? Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes ? Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes ? ? ? Yes
AiR-Boot GPL Yes No ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Yes Yes Yes ? ? ? ?
Barebox GPL v2 Yes No ? Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes ? ? ? ? Yes ? ? ? ?
Boot Camp Proprietary ? ? ? ? ? Yes ? Yes ? ? ? ? ? Yes Yes Yes ? ? ? Yes
BootIt Next Generation Proprietary ? ? Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes ? Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes ? ? ? ?
BootKey Proprietary No No Yes No No No Yes Yes Yes No No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes ? ? ? ?
bootman MIT Yes No No Yes ? ? ? ? ? ? No Yes Yes Boots NTLDR Boots Windows Boot Manager Boots GRUB or LILO ? ? ? ?
BootX (Apple) Proprietary ? ? ? Yes ? ? ? ? ? ? Yes ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Yes
BootX (Linux) ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Yes ? ? ? ?
Darwin Boot Loader ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Yes Yes
Das U-Boot GPL ? ? ? Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes ? ? ? ? Yes ? ? Yes (FreeBSD) ?
GAG GPL Yes (SafeBoot) No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No Yes Yes Calls NTLDR Calls Windows Boot Manager Calls GRUB or LILO Calls bootloader Calls bootloader Calls bootloader No
GRUB GPL No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes NTLDR Chain-loading supported Calls Windows Boot Manager Yes Calls FreeLoader Yes Yes Yes
GRUB2 GPL No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes NTLDR Chain-loading supported Calls Windows Boot Manager Yes Calls FreeLoader Yes Yes Yes
GRUB4DOS GPL No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Calls NTLDR Calls Windows Boot Manager Yes ? ? ? ?
Gujin [1] GPL No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes ? ? ? ?
LILO BSD license Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes ? ? Yes Calls NTLDR ? Yes ? ? Calls biosboot (FreeBSD, PC-BSD, ...) ?
loadlin GPL No No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No No No Yes No No ? ?
Madboot Proprietary ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
MasterBooter Proprietary ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
NTLDR Proprietary No Yes Yes Yes ? No No Yes Yes ? ? Yes Yes Yes No Calls GRUB4DOS ? ? ? Calls Darwin bootloader[1]
OSL2000 Boot Manager Proprietary Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes Calls GRUB or LILO ? ? ? ?
PLoP Bootmanager Freeware Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Calls GRUB or LILO ? ? ? ?
RedBoot mod GPL No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes NTLDR Chain-loading supported Calls Windows Boot Manager Yes Calls FreeLoader Yes Yes Yes
Smart Boot Manager GPL Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes ? ? ? Yes Yes Yes ? Yes ? ? Yes ?
SPFdisk Open source Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes ? ? Yes ? ? ? Yes Yes ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
SYSLINUX GPL ? Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Calls NTLDR Calls Windows Boot Manager Yes ? Yes ? ?
XOSL GPL No No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes ? No ? No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes ? ? ? ?
zBoot Manager Proprietary ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Windows Boot Manager Proprietary ? Yes ? Yes Yes ? Yes Yes ? Yes ? ? Yes Calls NTLDR Yes Calls GRUB or LILO ? ? ? ?
FreeLoader (ReactOS Boot Loader) GPL No Yes Yes Yes Yes ? Yes Yes Yes Yes ? Yes Yes Partial[2] Calls Windows Boot Manager Yes Yes ? ? ?
Name Software license It can reside in Boot from Can boot
MBR only MBR / VBR Floppy Hard disk Second hard disk Logical partitions CD-ROM Floppy USB Zip LAN MS-DOS Windows 9x/Me Windows NT series Windows Vista Linux ReactOS MenuetOS *BSD Mac OS X
Name Advanced command Scriptable Supported device Supported architecture Supported filesystem Supported OS Supported executable Supported protocol Supported decompression Others Size
GRUB Legacy Yes No  ? i386(pc) FAT16, FAT32, MINIX fs, Linux ext2fs, ReiserFS, JFS, XFS, VSTa fs FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, GNU/Linux ELF TFTP gzip
GRUB 2 Yes Yes  ? i386(PC, coreboot, OLPC, Mac), PowerPC(Mac, Pegasos II), Sun UltraSPARC(SPARC v9) ext2, ext3, ext4, btrfs, zfs, ufs, minix, iso9660, udf, jfs, hfs, hfs+, afs, affs, sfs, xfs, reiserfs, tar, cpio, ntfs, FAT16, FAT32 Linux(PC, mac), FreeBSD(pc), OpenBSD(pc), NetBSD(pc)  ?  ?  ?
LILO No No  ? i386(PC) agnostic  ?  ?  ? bzip2, gzip
LOLO (Logic PD) Yes Yes MCF54xx, MCF5329, MCF5373, LLH7A400, LLH7A404, LLH79520, LLH79524, LSH7727, LSH7750, LSH7760, PXA270, PXA320, IMX31, IMX27, OMAP35xx, OMAP37xx ARM7, ARM9, ARM11, Cortex-A8, StrongARM, SH, ColdFire FAT16, FAT32, YAFFS1, YAFFS2 Linux, WinCE ELF, binary, BIN (WinCE), SREC TFTP  ?
SYSLINUX  ?  ?  ?  ? ext2, ext3, FAT GNU/Linux, ?  ?  ?  ?
Yaboot No No  ? PowerPC(Open Firmware) ext2, ext3, ? GNU/Linux, ?  ?  ?  ?
RedBoot yes yes (boot only)  ? ARM, ColdFire, H8300, x86, Freescale/Motorola 68000, MIPS, PPC, SH, SPARC, SPARCLite JFFS2 Linux, eCos ELF TFTP, serial (X-modem) gzip
Das U-Boot Yes Yes  ? PPC, ARM, AVR32, Blackfin, ColdFire, IXP, Leon2, m68k, MicroBlaze, MIPS, NIOS, NIOS2, PXA, x86, StrongARM, SH2, SH3, SH4, ... FAT, VFAT, ext2, ext3, jffs2, cramfs, reiserfs, yaffs2, ubifs, nfs 4_4bsd, Artos, Dell, Esix, FreeBSD, Irix, Linux, LynxOS, NCR, NetBSD, OpenBSD, pSOS, QNX, RTEMS, SCO, Solaris, SVR4, U-Boot, VXworks ELF, U-Boot image format TFTP, NFS, serial (S-Record, Y-Modem, Kermit binary protocol) bzip2, gzip, lzma
Barebox Yes Yes  ? ARM, Blackfin, NIOS2, MIPS, x86, PPC FAT, VFAT, cramfs, nfs Linux  ? TFTP, NFS, serial (S-Record, Y-Modem) bzip2, gzip, lzma
kboot  ?  ?  ? i386 most supported by Linux Kernel (ext2, ext3, ext4, reiserfs, xfs, jfs, etc..) Linux  ? HTTP, FTP, TFTP  ? SSH, NFS support. kexec-based bootloader.
Runnix  ?  ?  ?  ?  ? Linux  ?  ?  ? kexec and SYSLINUX based bootloader.
kexec-loader No No  ? i386 most supported by Linux Kernel (ext2, ext3, ext4, reiserfs, xfs, jfs, etc..) Linux/multiboot  ? No networking gzip (for kernel modules) Kernel/multiboot module support
NTLDR No No  ? i386(PC)  ? Windows  ?  ?  ? default bootloader on Windows NT
FREELDR No No  ? i386(PC), ARM, PowerPC ext2, FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, ISO, NTFS ReactOS, Linux, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 2003  ?  ?  ? clone of NTLDR
boot0 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? FreeBSD's bootloader
extipl ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? IBM IPL upper compatible
Multiple Boot Manager ? ? ? ? ? PC DOS, MS-DOS, Windows, OS/2, Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, BeOS, B-right/V, Solaris, OpenStep, Plan 9, EOTA[3] ? ? ?
bootload (Technologic Systems) ? ? ? ARM ? Linux ? ? ? Proprietary
Name Advanced command Scriptable Supported device Supported architecture Supported filesystem Supported OS Supported executable Supported protocol Supported decompression Others

Notes

  1. ^ http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/Chain0
  2. ^ http://www.reactos.org/en/newsletter_37.html - Freeloader can load Windows Server 2003 directly, as long as it is on a FAT32 partition
  3. ^ ELM - Multiple Boot Manager

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