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'''Limine''' is an advanced multiprotocol x86/x86_64 [[BIOS]] and [[UEFI]] bootloader, with support for the Linux, The [[Limine Bare Bones|Limine boot protocol]], [[Multiboot|multiboot1 and 2]], and [[Stivale|stivale1 and 2]] boot protocols (and serving as the reference implementation for these last two).

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 3.0, a new boot protocol, simply called the [[Limine Bare Bones|Limine boot protocol]] was introduced to supersede stivale 1 and 2.

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

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

The [[stivaleLimine Bare Bones]] article contains a basic tutorial on how to use Limine and the stivale2its protocol. Furthermore, a GitHub repository containing a simple example template for a 64-bit kernel loaded using Limine can be found in the external links section.

*[https://github.com/stivalelimine-bootloader/stivale2limine-barebones Barebones stivale2kernel template using Limine.]