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What is Limine?

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.

Community, Support, and Donations

Donate

If you want to support the work I (@mintsuki) do on Limine, feel free to donate to me on Liberapay:

Donate using Liberapay

Donations welcome, but absolutely not mandatory!

Community

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.

Limine's boot menu

Reference screenshot

Photo by Pixabay

Supported architectures

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

Supported boot protocols

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

Supported partitioning schemes

  • MBR
  • GPT
  • Unpartitioned media

Supported filesystems

  • 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.

Minimum system requirements

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.

Packaging status

All Limine releases since 7.x use Semantic Versioning for their naming.

Packaging status

Binary releases

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 10.5.0):

git clone https://codeberg.org/Limine/Limine.git --branch=v10.5.0-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.

Build and Install Instructions

The following steps are not necessary if cloning a binary release.

See INSTALL.md.

Usage

See USAGE.md.

3rd Party Software Acknowledgments

See 3RDPARTY.md.