efibootmgr
- Ebuilds: 2, Stable: 18-r2, Testing: 18-r2, 17-r1 Description:
This is efibootmgr, a Linux user-space application to modify the Intel
Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) Boot Manager. This application
can create and destroy boot entries, change the boot order, change
the next running boot option, and more.
Homepage:https://github.com/rhinstaller/efibootmgr License: GPL-2
lilo
- Ebuilds: 2, Stable: 24.2-r3 Description: LInux LOader, the original Linux bootloader
Homepage:https://www.joonet.de/lilo/ License: BSD GPL-2
limine (ambiguous, available in 3 overlays)
- Ebuilds: 3, Testing: 10.8.4 Description: Limine is a modern, advanced, and portable BIOS/UEFI multiprotocol bootloader
Homepage:https://limine-bootloader.org/ License: BSD-2
m1n1
- Ebuilds: 1, Stable: 1.5.2 Description: Apple Silicon bootloader and experimentation playground
Homepage:https://asahilinux.org/ License: MIT
milo
- Ebuilds: 1, Testing: 2.4.18 Description:
On Intel based PC systems, the BIOS firmware sets up the system and
then loads the image to be run from the boot block of a DOS file
system. This is more or less what MILO does on an Alpha based system,
however there are several interesting differences between BIOS firmware
and MILO, not least of which is that MILO includes and uses standard
Linux device drivers unmodified. MILO is firmware, unlike LILO, which
relies on the BIOS firmware to get itself loaded.
Homepage:http://milo.core-systems.de/ License: MILO
plymouth (ambiguous, available in 2 overlays)
- Ebuilds: 4, Stable: 22.02.122-r4, Testing: 9999 Description:
Plymouth is an application that runs very early in the boot process
(even before the root filesystem is mounted!) that provides a graphical
boot animation while the boot process happens in the background.
It is designed to work on systems with DRM modesetting drivers. Ideally,
the goal is to get rid of all flicker during startup. For systems that
don't have DRM mode settings drivers, plymouth falls back to text mode.
Homepage:https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/plymouth/plymouth License: GPL-2
refind
- Ebuilds: 1, Stable: 0.14.2-r4 Description:
A graphical boot manager for EFI- and UEFI-based computers, such as all
Intel-based Macs and recent (most 2011 and later) PCs. rEFInd presents a
boot menu showing all the EFI boot loaders on the EFI-accessible
partitions, and optionally BIOS-bootable partitions on Macs and BIOS boot
entries on UEFI PCs with CSMs. EFI-compatbile OSes, including Linux,
provide boot loaders that rEFInd can detect and launch. rEFInd can launch
Linux EFI boot loaders such as ELILO, GRUB Legacy, GRUB 2, and 3.3.0 and
later kernels with EFI stub support. EFI filesystem drivers for ext2/3/4fs,
ReiserFS, Btrfs, NTFS, HFS+, and ISO-9660 enable rEFInd to read boot
loaders from these filesystems, too. rEFInd's ability to detect boot
loaders at runtime makes it very easy to use, particularly when paired with
Linux kernels that provide EFI stub support.
Homepage:https://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/ License: BSD CC-BY-SA-3.0 CC-BY-SA-4.0 FDL-1.3 GPL-2+ GPL-3+ LGPL-3+
sgibootcd
- Ebuilds: 1, Testing: 0.13 Description:
sgibootcd is a small utility used to create the burnable,
non-ISO9660 image format for bootable CDs for SGI systems.
Homepage:ftp://ftp.linux-mips.org/pub/linux/mips/people/skylark/ License: all-rights-reserved
tboot
- Ebuilds: 1, Testing: 1.11.3 Description:
A pre-kernel/VMM module that uses Intel(R) Trusted Execution Technology to perform a measured and verified launch of an OS kernel/VMM.
Homepage:https://sourceforge.net/projects/tboot/ License: BSD
u-boot (ambiguous, available in 2 overlays)
- Ebuilds: 3, Stable: 2025.07_p1, Testing: 2025.10_p1-r1 Description: Asahi Linux fork of Das U-Boot
Homepage:https://asahilinux.org/ License: GPL-2
uefitool (ambiguous, available in 2 overlays)
- Ebuilds: 3, Testing: 73_alpha Description: C++/Qt program for parsing, extracting and modifying UEFI firmware images
Homepage:https://github.com/LongSoft/UEFITool/ License: BSD-2
usbimager
- Ebuilds: 1, Testing: 1.0.10 Description: Minimal GUI for writing compressed disk images to USB drives
Homepage:https://gitlab.com/bztsrc/usbimager License: public-domain BSD BZIP2 MIT ZLIB
ventoy-bin (ambiguous, available in 2 overlays)
- Ebuilds: 9, Testing: 1.1.10 Description: A new multiboot USB solution
Homepage:http://www.ventoy.net License: GPL-3
woeusb-ng
- Ebuilds: 1, Testing: 0.2.12-r1 Description: Create a Windows USB stick installer from an iso image (rewrite of WoeUSB)
Homepage:https://github.com/WoeUSB/WoeUSB-ng License: GPL-3+