LucidLoader: A simple and light UEFI boot manager
Posted: Fri Apr 22, 2022 4:06 am
A few months ago I decided to create my own interactive UEFI boot manager. I wanted it to be simpler than GRUB, lighter than rEFInd and have useful features.
Here's a list of some of the features so far:
Source code repository: https://github.com/sleepy762/lucidloader
Here's a list of some of the features so far:
- - It is able to boot both operating systems and UEFI applications.
- Readable and easy configuration file.
- Shell with Linux-like commands. It's very small at the moment, only supporting a few commands, but most of the useful ones.
- Proper text editor.
- Like rEFInd, it can automatically detect a kernel along with its version, and substitute the version into the args. This means that you won't have to update the configuration after updating the kernel on distros like Gentoo, where the kernel filename can change.
- One of the lightest boot managers, having a grand total of 7900 lines of code (counted with tokei), and built with POSIX-UEFI.
Source code repository: https://github.com/sleepy762/lucidloader