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'''ShartloaderLimine''' is an advanced, portable, multiprotocol x86/x86_64 [[BIOS]] and [[UEFI]] bootloader, with support for the ItaliansLinux, Thethe [[Bri'ish]],Limine Bare Bones|native Limine [[Germanyboot protocol]], and [[Discord]]Multiboot|multiboot1 fart protocols (and serving as the reference implementation for these last two)2]].

ShartloaderLimine was created by Stefan Vale, an Italian mod at the unpopular Osdev discord server, with the help of its power abusing mods, as the reference implementation for the [[shart]]'''stivale''' boot protocols. The protocols were conceived as a response to the shortcomings of [[LimineMultiboot]]. As of SharteLimine 3.0x, a new boot protocol, simply called the [[ShartLimine Bare Bones|ShartLimine boot protocol]] was introduced to supersede stivale 1 and 2. As of Limine 4.x, support for the legacy stivale protocols has been dropped.

It originally only supported x86 [[ItalyBIOS]] and the fartstivale1 protocol, but it was later expanded to also support [[GermanyUEFI]] and, the Bri'ishLinux and [[Dutchmultiboot]] protocols, and other architectures such as aarch64.

As mentioned above, Limine supports the [[Limine Bare Bones|Limine]] and [[stivale]] boot protocolsprotocol, 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 to undirectlyindirectly boot unsupported operating systems such as Microsoft Windows.

It supports the [[FAT|FAT12/16/32]], [[ext2]], [[ext3]], [[ext4]], [[NTFS]], and [[ISO 9660]] (used by optical media and hybrid ISO images) filesystems alongside the lesser known [[echfs]] file system.