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 and a Discord server if you need support, info, or you just want to hang out with us.

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• IA-32 (32-bit x86)
• x86-64
• aarch64 (arm64)
• riscv64
• loongarch64 (experimental support!)

• Linux
• Limine
• Multiboot 1
• Multiboot 2
• Chainloading

• MBR
• GPT
• Unpartitioned media

• FAT12/16/32
• ISO9660 (CDs/DVDs)

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 10.x branch, one can do:

git clone https://codeberg.org/Limine/Limine.git --branch=v10.x-binary --depth=1

or, to clone a specific binary point release (for example 10.6.0):

git clone https://codeberg.org/Limine/Limine.git --branch=v10.6.0-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.