BTAG
The Better Than Awful GRUB bootloader (by google0101-ryan)
grub2
Ongoing downstream work on grub2, including Fedora and RHEL. ***This is not upstream; please send code upstream first*** (by rhboot)
| BTAG | grub2 | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 6 | |
| 1 | 192 | |
| - | 0.0% | |
| 0.0 | 4.6 | |
| over 2 years ago | 4 days ago | |
| Assembly | C | |
| Apache License 2.0 | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
BTAG
Posts with mentions or reviews of BTAG.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-08-09.
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Help on bootloader
BTAG on GitHub
grub2
Posts with mentions or reviews of grub2.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-02.
- Why does my laptop with Windows not like Debian, but have not problem with Ubuntu?
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Is it me or is Grub2 outputting "GRUB" on error the worst thing in software design ever?
You can go through the code if you like to investigate.
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Help on bootloader
grub-core/disk/i386/pc/biosdisk.c
- Grub 2.06 Update changes
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Why do many tutorials use "update-grub"?
grub-mkconfig was renamed from update-grub in a [2008 commit(https://github.com/rhboot/grub2/commit/18ade780eda51968722fe9face6bda3de58aa24a#diff-6dd48728a15c58e0ea5fc52fa7e81f0824e07843b701e4759b06a149286fe87e)
- Bootloader menus could have more options / settings, like ram-disk and choice of graphics driver
What are some alternatives?
When comparing BTAG and grub2 you can also consider the following projects:
x86-bootloader - A BIOS bootloader for bare-metal x86 programs, written in 8086 assembly
efibootmgr - efibootmgr development tree
BootProg - FAT12/16/32 Bootsector for .COMs/.EXEs
SegelBoot - :sailboat: x86 32-bit bootloader for my final presentation exam
svntogit-packages - Automatic import of svn 'packages' repo (read-only mirror)
Cyjon - A simple, clean code, multi-tasking kernel written in pure Assembly language for 64-bit processors from the AMD64 family.
8bc - B compiler for the PDP-8
Invaders - Invaders game in 512 bytes (boot sector)