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We've compiled a list of 8 free and paid alternatives to rEFInd. The primary competitors include GRUB, EasyBCD. In addition to these, users also draw comparisons between rEFInd and rEFIt, Chameleon Bootloader, Clover EFI bootloader. Also you can look at other similar options here: OS and Utilities.
We've compiled a list of 8 free and paid alternatives to rEFInd. The primary competitors include GRUB, EasyBCD. In addition to these, users also draw comparisons between rEFInd and rEFIt, Chameleon Bootloader, Clover EFI bootloader. Also you can look at other similar options here: OS and Utilities.
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EasyBCD is NeoSmart Technologies multiple award-winning answer to tweaking Windows bootloader.
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rEFIt is a boot menu and maintenance toolkit for EFI-based machines like the Intel Macs.
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This is EFI-based bootloader for BIOS-based computers created as a replacement to EDK2/Duet...
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Burg is a brand-new boot loader based on https://alternativeto.net/software/grub/.
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gummiboot is a simple UEFI boot manager which executes configured EFI images
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VBoot allows you to boot a physical computer from a single virtual disk file in VHD/VMDK/VDI/Raw...
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rEFInd is a fork of the ...
rEFInd is a fork of the ...
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rEFInd is a fork of the 
rEFIt boot manager for computers based on the Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) and Unified EFI (UEFI). Like rEFIt, rEFInd is a boot manager, meaning that it presents a menu of options to the user when the computer first starts up, as shown below. rEFInd is not a boot loader, which is a program that loads an OS kernel and hands off control to it.
I decided to fork the earlier rEFIt project because, although rEFIt is a useful program, it's got several important limitations, such as poor control over the boot loader detection process and an ability to display at most a handful of boot loader entries on its main screen. rEFIt's author, Christoph Pfisterer, didn't respond to my e-mails, and the latest official version of rEFIt, 0.14, was released in March of 2010. Thus, it appears that rEFIt has been abandoned. Forking the project to give rEFIt new features seemed like the thing to do.
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