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This application can create and destroy boot entries, change the boot order, change the next running boot option, and more."},{"categoryid":446,"description":"Linux boot loader for EFI-based systems such as IA-64","firstseen":"2010-05-04T00:54:45.661860","maintainer":"ia64@gentoo.org","maintainername":"Gentoo Linux IA-64 Development","name":"elilo","packageid":52535},{"categoryid":446,"description":"Library for build EFI Applications","firstseen":"2010-05-04T00:54:45.661860","maintainer":"ia64@gentoo.org","maintainername":"Gentoo Linux IA-64 Development","name":"gnu-efi","packageid":48998},{"categoryid":446,"description":"GNU GRUB boot loader","firstseen":"2010-05-04T00:54:45.661860","maintainer":"floppym@gentoo.org","maintainername":"Gentoo Base System","name":"grub","packageid":45541},{"categoryid":446,"description":"Grub2 Themes for Gentoo","firstseen":"2025-12-13T19:06:35.428698","name":"grub-themes-gentoo","packageid":78658},{"categoryid":446,"description":"LInux LOader, the original Linux bootloader","firstseen":"2010-05-04T00:54:45.661860","maintainer":"chainsaw@gentoo.org","maintainername":"Gentoo Base System","name":"lilo","packageid":48801},{"categoryid":446,"description":"Limine is a modern, advanced, and portable BIOS\/UEFI multiprotocol bootloader","firstseen":"2025-10-03T03:01:42.871339","name":"limine","packageid":78544},{"categoryid":446,"description":"Command line utility able to create bootable USB disks","firstseen":"2010-05-04T00:54:45.661860","maintainer":"jlec@gentoo.org","name":"makebootfat","packageid":43209},{"categoryid":446,"description":"A replacement master boot record for IBM-PC compatible computers","firstseen":"2010-05-13T14:51:00.339246","name":"mbr","packageid":55762},{"categoryid":446,"description":"The Alpha MIniLOader, for Alpha Machines without SRM","firstseen":"2010-05-04T00:54:45.661860","maintainer":"alpha@gentoo.org","maintainername":"Gentoo Linux Alpha Development","name":"milo","packageid":45494,"summary":"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."},{"categoryid":446,"description":"The utility to manipulate machines owner keys which managed in shim","firstseen":"2018-07-04T16:09:46.886521","name":"mokutil","packageid":69250},{"categoryid":446,"description":"NetWinder ARM bootloader and utilities","firstseen":"2010-05-04T00:54:45.661860","maintainer":"embedded@gentoo.org","maintainername":"Embedded Gentoo","name":"nettrom","packageid":46698},{"categoryid":446,"description":"Utility to detect other OSs on a set of drives","firstseen":"2010-05-04T00:54:45.661860","maintainer":"wizzleby@gmail.com","maintainername":"Locke Shinseiko","name":"os-prober","packageid":45123},{"categoryid":446,"description":"PALO: PArisc Linux Loader","firstseen":"2010-05-04T00:54:45.661860","maintainer":"hppa@gentoo.org","maintainername":"Gentoo Linux HPPA Development","name":"palo","packageid":42194},{"categoryid":446,"description":"Graphical boot animation (splash) and logger","firstseen":"2011-02-22T14:56:29.018702","name":"plymouth","packageid":56987,"summary":"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."},{"categoryid":446,"description":"Plymouth plugin for OpenRC","firstseen":"2011-07-03T14:38:01.718419","name":"plymouth-openrc-plugin","packageid":57592},{"categoryid":446,"description":"Raspberry Pi (all versions) bootloader and GPU firmware","firstseen":"2013-07-15T13:36:42.670773","maintainer":"xmw@gentoo.org","maintainername":"Michael Weber","name":"raspberrypi-firmware","packageid":61015},{"categoryid":446,"description":"The UEFI Boot Manager by Rod Smith","firstseen":"2015-08-26T13:38:56.669871","maintainer":"wraeth@gentoo.org","maintainername":"Sam Jorna","name":"refind","packageid":64011,"summary":"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."},{"categoryid":446,"description":"Creates burnable CD images for SGI LiveCDs","firstseen":"2010-05-04T00:54:45.661860","maintainer":"mips@gentoo.org","maintainername":"Mips Team","name":"sgibootcd","packageid":51938,"summary":"sgibootcd is a small utility used to create the burnable, non-ISO9660 image format for bootable CDs for SGI systems."},{"categoryid":446,"description":"Fedora's signed UEFI shim","firstseen":"2018-06-19T03:19:54.850982","name":"shim","packageid":69191},{"categoryid":446,"description":"SPARC\/UltraSPARC Improved Loader, a boot loader for sparc","firstseen":"2010-05-04T00:54:45.661860","maintainer":"sparc@gentoo.org","maintainername":"Gentoo Linux SPARC Development","name":"silo","packageid":45244},{"categoryid":446,"description":"SYSLINUX, PXELINUX, ISOLINUX, EXTLINUX and MEMDISK bootloaders","firstseen":"2010-05-04T00:54:45.661860","maintainer":"chithanh@gentoo.org","maintainername":"Gentoo Base System","name":"syslinux","packageid":42607},{"categoryid":446,"description":"Performs a measured and verified boot using Intel Trusted Execution Technology","firstseen":"2015-05-08T13:37:38.839297","maintainer":"perfinion@gentoo.org","maintainername":"Jason Zaman","name":"tboot","packageid":63439,"summary":"A pre-kernel\/VMM module that uses Intel(R) Trusted Execution Technology to perform a measured and verified launch of an OS kernel\/VMM."},{"categoryid":446,"description":"Automatic management of UEFI entries","firstseen":"2024-04-09T11:05:42.748302","name":"uefi-mkconfig","packageid":77405},{"categoryid":446,"description":"Chrome OS verified boot tools","firstseen":"2013-07-04T13:36:39.939486","maintainer":"zmedico@gentoo.org","name":"vboot-utils","packageid":60969},{"categoryid":446,"description":"Create a Windows USB stick installer from an iso image (rewrite of WoeUSB)","firstseen":"2024-11-27T23:59:18.633684","name":"woeusb-ng","packageid":77919},{"categoryid":446,"description":"PPC Bootloader","firstseen":"2010-05-04T00:54:45.661860","maintainer":"ppc@gentoo.org","maintainername":"Gentoo Linux PowerPC Development","name":"yaboot","packageid":46168},{"categoryid":446,"description":"Static yaboot ppc boot loader for machines with open firmware","firstseen":"2010-05-04T00:54:45.661860","maintainer":"ppc@gentoo.org","maintainername":"Gentoo Linux PowerPC Development","name":"yaboot-static","packageid":46152}]}