Limine: Difference between revisions

'''Limine''' is aan modernadvanced, advancedportable, multiprotocol bootloader, with support for cuttingLinux, edgethe features[[Limine suchBare asBones|native 5-levelLimine paging,boot 64-bit [[Long Modeprotocol]], and direct[[Multiboot|multiboot1 higherand half loading thanks to the [[stivale2]] boot protocol.

Limine was created as the reference implementation for the [['''stivale]]''' boot protocols. The protocols were conceived as a response to the shortcomings of [[Multiboot]]. As of Limine 3.x, a new boot protocol, simply called the [[Limine Bare Bones|Limine boot protocol]] was introduced to supersede stivale 1 and 2. As of Limine 4.x, support for the legacy stivale protocols has been dropped.

As mentioned above, Limine supports the [[stivaleLimine Bare Bones|Limine]] boot protocol, alongside Linux's own boot protocol (which means one can boot Linux fully using Limine), multiboot 1 and 2 (allowing it to boot a vast catalogue of hobby OSes and more), and chainloading to allow bootingto unsupportedindirectly thirdboot partyunsupported operating systems such as Microsoft Windows.

It supports the [[FAT|FAT32FAT12/16/32]], and [[ext2]],ISO [[ext39660]], and(used [[ext4]]by filesystemsoptical alongsidemedia theand lesserhybrid knownISO [[echfs]]images) file systemfilesystems.

The [[stivaleLimine Bare Bones]] article contains a basic tutorial on how to use Limine and the stivaleits protocol. Furthermore, a GitHub repository containing a simple example oftemplate for a 64-bit kernel loaded withusing Limine can be found in the external links section.

* [[stivaleLimine Bare Bones]]