GRUB

GNU GRUB is a multiboot boot loader. It was derived from GRUB, the GRand Unified Bootloader, which was originally designed and implemented by Erich Stefan Boleyn.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD OpenSolaris Solaris

EasyBCD

EasyBCD is NeoSmart Technologies multiple award-winning answer to tweaking Windows bootloader. With EasyBCD, almost anything is possible, e.g. to boot a Win7-VHD-image.

Free Personal Windows

GRUB for DOS

GRUB for DOS is an universal boot loader based on GNU GRUB. It can boot various OSes (some directly, some using their standard boot managers) on different media (HDD, CD/DVD, external USB devices, etc).

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

rEFInd

refind is a fork of the refit boot manager for computers based on the extensible firmware interface (efi) and unified efi (uefi).

Free Mac OS X Windows Linux

VMLite VBoot

VBoot allows you to boot a physical computer from a single virtual disk file in VHD/VMDK/VDI/Raw format. Each file contains a single operating system.

Commercial Windows Linux

Grub2Win

Safely dual boot Windows and Linux without touching the Windows MBR. Grub2Win installs to Windows 8, Windows 7, XP, 2000 or Vista. It boots native, open source GNU...

Free Open Source Windows Linux

Visual BCD Editor

Visual BCD Editor - advanced GUI version of bcdedit utility. Automatic boot loader creation - Windows 7|Vista|XP|VHD. Fix boot manager and dual boot problems.

Free Windows

Libreboot

libreboot is a distribution of coreboot with proprietary blobs removed.

Free Open Source Linux

coreboot

coreboot is an extended firmware platform that delivers a lightning fast and secure boot experience on modern computers and embedded systems.

Free Open Source Linux

Chameleon Bootloader

Chameleon is a boot loader for Mac OS X. It seems that standard boot loaders for Mac OS X either lack many cool features, or have many cool features, but are...

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

BootIt Bare Metal

BootIt Bare Metal is a boot manager and partition manager software utility. Whither you want to do non-destructive repartitioning or boot multiple operating systems...

Commercial Windows

rEFIt

rEFIt is a boot menu and maintenance toolkit for EFI-based machines like the Intel Macs. You can use it to boot multiple operating systems easily, including triple-boot...

Free Open Source Mac OS X

burg

burg is a brand-new boot loader based on grub. it uses a new object format which allows it to be built in a wider range of os...

Free Open Source Windows Linux BSD Mac

OSL2000 Boot Manager

OSL2000 is an advanced multi boot manager. Using OSL2000 boot manager, you can directly install, boot and manage upto 100 independent OSs in your computer.

Commercial Windows

DualBootPRO

A boot editor for the Windows 7/Vista bootloader. Takes the pain out of BCDEDIT. The logical and easy to use DualBootPRO interface makes it easy for both the novice...

Commercial Windows

bootcfg

Used to edit boot configuration data on Windows systems. Predecessor of bcdedit. Found on Windows XP and prior versions.

Commercial Windows

Extended Operating System Loader

Written in C++ and licensed under GNU GPL, XOSL (eXtended Operating System Loader) is a user-friendly, window-based graphical boot manager handling large disks and over...

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

Chimera

Chimera is a Hackintosh bootloader that merges the best features from various branches of Chameleon bootloader, into a new branch based on the latest Chameleon 2.0 RC5...

Free Open Source Mac OS X

Linux Loader

The development of LILO as classic bootloader for GNU/Linux systems was restarted in June 2010. Because of the simpleness LILO has some advantages comparing with Grub...

Free Open Source Linux