kexecboot
Kexecboot is a nice Linux-As-a-Bootloader implementation based on kexec (by kexecboot)
limine
Modern, advanced, portable, multiprotocol bootloader and boot manager. (by limine-bootloader)
kexecboot | limine | |
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2 | 20 | |
105 | 1,595 | |
1.0% | 3.6% | |
3.4 | 9.5 | |
about 1 year ago | 8 days ago | |
C | C | |
GNU General Public License v3.0 only | BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License |
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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.
kexecboot
Posts with mentions or reviews of kexecboot.
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Perfectly Good MacBooks From 2020 Are Being Sold for Scrap Because of Activation Lock - It's almost impossible to resell a perfectly functional M1 MacBook because of Apple's security features.
You're literally just making stuff up now. Once a hypervisor is loaded you're booted. You can then spin up VMs that go through the boot process excluding hardware initialization. Or you can do something like kexec on Linux. You can also use a Linux based bootloader like kexecboot (https://github.com/kexecboot/kexecboot). This isn't a "stage three" bootlaoder. That literally doesn't exist and doesn't make sense.
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Linux kernel Panic
And there are also projects trying to reuse Linux kernel code for bootloading itself to reduce this reimplementation madness e.g. https://github.com/kexecboot/kexecboot and https://archive.fosdem.org/2020/schedule/event/ema_boot_linux_only/
limine
Posts with mentions or reviews of limine.
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and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-25.
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It's far from clear how grub package updates work on Ubuntu
I assume this person meant to say `Limine'.
It's what I use for dualbooting Windows and Linux. It's really easy to Install, Use & Understand.
https://limine-bootloader.org/
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Limine a dog with fleas just died
They also publish a PHILOSOPHY.md page in their MS-source-git (github) that is, which is clearly offensive to us and many linux users:
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Problem loading GDT in a x86-64 kernel
I'm using Limine for bootloader, and in its documentation, in the Protocol page, we have:
- Limine is an advanced, portable, multiprotocol bootloader
- Looking for boot manager recommendations
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Getting the memory size with Limine
Hello! While reading the Limine protocol specification i noticed that it says that "all non-usable entries (including kernel/modules) are not guaranteed any alignment, nor is it guaranteed that they do not overlap other entries". How am I supposed to get the memory size then? If the memory map entries can overlap, then summing their lengths won't work. Any help is appreciated, thanks in advance.
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The *nix Compass
That's the Limine bootloader
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How do I make a bootloader that boots into a c kernel
It's way easier to use a pre-existing bootloader. I recommend Limine. It has it's own boot protocol that's designed for x86_64. You don't need any additional setup as it's already booted to long mode unlike Multiboot which needs you to switch to long mode since it's booted in protected mode. You can find an example kernel here.
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MaslOS
It uses Limine as the Bootloader but I used Ponchos OS Dev Playlist as a base.
- Is grub grub-efi lilo syslinux TOO MUCH - try Limine