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rEFInd
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Automatic kernel discovery
REFInd is really good with automatically with finding your operating systems, leaving all that manual configuration as totally optional.
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EFI only
REFInd supports only EFI or UEFI systems which, while common on the latest systems, is a relatively new technology. BIOS-based systems are not supported.
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Beautiful theme support
REFInd allows easy theming with fonts, icons and backgrounds to give you a customized and beautiful graphical bootloader.
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Buggy mouse support
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EFI only
Focuses on one type of system.
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Text based configs
It can be configured with text files.
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Easy to install, easy command
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Grub2
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Easy to install and setup
Only requires 2 commands most of the time (i.e. grub-install ... and grub-mkconfig ...).
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Slower boot times
Grub has slower boot times than most other bootloaders.
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Support for a large number of Operating Systems
Grub can load a large number of operating systems, not just Linux.
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Fully-featured also means harder to wrap your head around
Grub has a lot of features that other boot loaders may not have. But this also means more time spent on the documentation if you want to know the ins and outs of it.
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Easily locates a kernel file
Grub is very file-system aware. This way, it can easily locate a kernel file which is residing in the file system without having to specify a logical-sector.
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Has an interactive CLI
Grub has an interactive command line interface which can be very helpful at times if anything goes wrong during the boot process, especially after a fresh install or after a kernel update.
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Supports BIOS
Has BIOS support unlike other bootloaders which only support efi or uefi.
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systemd-boot (Gummiboot)
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Simple to install and maintain
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Part of systemd
Just another pointless feature for an init system.
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Very fast
Loads instantly
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Only works on UEFI
systemd-boot can only boot EFISTUB kernels
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Terrible to debug
Like everything else on systemd, the problem starts if something goes wrong.
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LILO
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Supports any filesystem
LILO does not rely on the file system to locate the kernel, instead it points to the first logical sector of the kernel file. Because it practically works around the file system, it supports any file system available.
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Support will be dropped on December 2015
The maintainer has announced that support for LILO will be dropped on December 2015 because of several limitations of LILO itself. Though development may again restart in the future and the maintainer is looking for people to continue the project.
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Compact and fast
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Can only load Linux
LILO (Linux Loader) can only be used to load Linux.
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