kexecboot
Kexecboot is a nice Linux-As-a-Bootloader implementation based on kexec (by kexecboot)
u-boot_mod
U-Boot 1.1.4 modification for routers (by pepe2k)
| kexecboot | u-boot_mod | |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | 1 | |
| 105 | 990 | |
| 1.0% | - | |
| 3.4 | 0.0 | |
| about 1 year ago | over 1 year ago | |
| C | C | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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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.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects.
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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/
u-boot_mod
Posts with mentions or reviews of u-boot_mod.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-12-27.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing kexecboot and u-boot_mod you can also consider the following projects:
PongoOS - pongoOS
hekate - hekate - A GUI based Nintendo Switch Bootloader
tilck - A Tiny Linux-Compatible Kernel
lk2nd - Custom bootloader for Qualcomm MSM8916/MSM8226/MSM8974/... devices
limine - Modern, advanced, portable, multiprotocol bootloader and boot manager.
asuswrt-merlin.ng - Third party firmware for Asus routers (newer codebase)
micronucleus - ATTiny usb bootloader with a strong emphasis on bootloader compactness.
Android_boot_image_editor - Parsing and re-packing Android boot.img/vbmeta.img/payload.bin, supporting Android 14