x86/x86_64 BIOS/UEFI Bootloader
Limine (pronounced as demonstrated here)
is a modern, advanced, portable, multiprotocol bootloader and boot manager, also used
as the reference implementation for the Limine boot protocol.
If you want to support the work I (@mintsuki) do on Limine, feel free to donate to me on Liberapay:
Donations welcome, but absolutely not mandatory!
We have a Matrix room at #limine:matrix.org
if you need support, info, or you just want to hang out with us.
If your filesystem isn’t listed here, please read the FAQ first, especially before
opening issues or pull requests related to this.
For 32-bit x86 systems, support is only ensured starting with those with
Pentium Pro (i686) class CPUs.
All x86-64, aarch64, riscv64 and loongarch64 (UEFI) systems are supported.
All Limine releases since 7.x use Semantic Versioning for their naming.
For convenience, for point releases, binaries are distributed. These binaries
are shipped in the -binary branches and tags of this repository
(see branches and
tags).
For example, to clone the latest binary release of the 9.x branch, one can do:
git clone https://github.com/limine-bootloader/limine.git --branch=v9.x-binary --depth=1
or, to clone a specific binary point release (for example 9.3.3):
git clone https://github.com/limine-bootloader/limine.git --branch=v9.3.3-binary --depth=1
In order to rebuild host utilities like limine, simply run make in the binary
release directory.
Host utility binaries are provided for Windows.
The following steps are not necessary if cloning a binary release.
See INSTALL.md.
See USAGE.md.
See 3RDPARTY.md.