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We've compiled a list of 19 free and paid alternatives to Extended Operating System Loader. The primary competitors include GRUB, EasyBCD. In addition to these, users also draw comparisons between Extended Operating System Loader and Grub2Win, GRUB4DOS and WINGRUB, PLoP Boot Manager. Also you can look at other similar options here: OS and Utilities.


GRUB
Free Open Source

Multiboot boot loader

EasyBCD is NeoSmart Technologies multiple award-winning answer to tweaking Windows bootloader.

Safely dual boot Windows and Linux without touching the Windows MBR.

PLoP Boot Manager
Free Open Source

The PLoP Boot Manager is a small program to boot different operating systems.

Yaboot
Free Open Source

Yaboot is a PowerPC bootloader for Open Firmware based machines including New World Apple...

Grub Customizer
Free Open Source

Grub Customizer is a graphical interface to configure the GRUB2/BURG settings and menuentries.

Chimera
Free Open Source

Chimera is a Hackintosh bootloader that merges the best features from various branches of...

Partita 2000 is a tiny boot manager with a Y2K patch for old BIOSes.

Written in C++ and licensed under GNU GPL, XOSL (eXtended Operating System Loader) is a...

Extended Operating System Loader Platforms

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Extended Operating System Loader Overview

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 30 different operating systems.

Some features...
- customizable GUI with a resolution of up to 1600x1200 (includes a font converter)
- mouse and keyboard support; hotkeys
- password protected boot and settings
- restart/reboot/shutdown
- partition hiding for MS file systems
- auto boot with timeout & last booted OS option
- boots MBR on any drive
- runs Ranish Partition Manager 2.38 beta 1.91 (no need of OS)
- IDE CD-ROM boot (with Smart Boot Manager only)
- MBR overwrite protection

SourceForge repository at: https://sourceforge.net/projects/xosl/

Since XOSL is no longer maintained, a modified version has stemmed form the original one (see https://sourceforge.net/projects/xosl2/).

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