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zfsbootmenu
ZFS Bootloader for root-on-ZFS systems with support for snapshots and native full disk encryption
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The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives.
Hence, a higher number means a better phbl alternative or higher similarity.
phbl discussion
phbl reviews and mentions
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We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-07-08.
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No more boot loader: Please use the kernel instead
One can trade run-time flexibility for size, speed, and small attack surface.
Taken to the limit, Oxide Computer boots using the [Pico Host Boot Loader](https://github.com/oxidecomputer/phbl) which is probably not suitable for your personal system where you would want to boot many OS images from many devices on many different mainboards using very similar or modular boot flash images.
Phbl transfers control to a partial Unix image, also in the boot flash, which brings in the rest of the OS from a well-known boot device. There is no UEFI, CoreBoot, PXE boot etc. The AMD PSP code does run, but that's the only early external blob in the boot path. This does mean that the OS has to understand its hardware, there is minimal "free" initialization.
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PixieFail: Nine Vulnerabilities UEFI Implementations
Oxide managed to do something similar as well: https://github.com/oxidecomputer/phbl
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AMD Details OpenSIL for Advancing Open-Source System Firmware
Oxide phbl https://github.com/oxidecomputer/phbl doesn't use OpenSIL. I assume it's written from scratch based on documentation and maybe looking at AGESA. Why can't other server/firmware vendors do the same? Because they're just not willing to.
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Basic phbl repo stats
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oxidecomputer/phbl is an open source project licensed under Mozilla Public License 2.0 which is an OSI approved license.
The primary programming language of phbl is Rust.
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