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efibootmgr logo efibootmgr

A Linux user-space application to modify the Intel Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) Boot Manager. This application can create and destroy boot entries, change the boot order, change the next running boot option, and more.

Visual BCD Editor logo Visual BCD Editor

Visual BCD Editor - advanced GUI version of bcdedit utility. for Windows 7/8/10 and Vista
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    2023-07-25
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    2023-09-18

Easy BCD edits of boot manager, boot loaders and boot menu settings on Windows 10, 8.1, 7 and Vista. Full structured view of BCD (Boot Configuration Data), easy selection and modification of boot options for UEFI and BIOS firmware boot.

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Category Popularity

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Developer Tools
13 13%
Developer Tools
87% 87
IT Automation
12 12%
IT Automation
88% 88
Cloud Computing
100 100%
Cloud Computing
0% 0
Windows System Tools
10 10%
Windows System Tools
90% 90

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, efibootmgr seems to be more popular. It has been mentiond 5 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

efibootmgr mentions (5)

  • BIOS does not detect any EFI boot loader, have to boot manually via UEFI shell. What can be wrong/ missing? [Details given.]
    When I use the command line tool efibootmgr to modify the UEFI's boot entries, it fails with Could not prepare Boot variable: No space left on device. But I am not sure which device efibootmgr thinks is full; sda1 has plenty of space and is mounted writeable; it seems to be something directly by the BIOS? -- The same message appears when I want to reorder Bootnums, but the reordering still is carried out. Source: 11 months ago
  • Issue Installing Windows 11 (Reboots into Steam OS During Install)
    Efibootmgr wiki Use this reference to change boot order if you so choose. Reboot into bios and you should see your windows install as an option to boot. Source: over 1 year ago
  • Installing Arch Linux on VMware vSphere 7.0 using Packer
    So I updated the install script to use efibootmgr to change the boot order. It's updated from the looks of things, but the CDROM still boots. Even when I use it to delete boot entries, it continues to kick the Live CD. When I change the EFI boot order manually in the vSphere client or disable entries, it will boot the installed Arch Linux. Source: almost 2 years ago
  • Command to reboot into alternate OS?
    Assuming you are using EFI you can use https://github.com/rhboot/efibootmgr to change your boot order. This will bypass GRUB. I would create a bash alias to change the next boot device and then restart the computer so you can have everything happen with one command. Source: over 2 years ago
  • How to restart and boot into windows from the command line?
    Check if this is in the repo. Https://github.com/rhboot/efibootmgr. Source: about 3 years ago

Visual BCD Editor mentions (0)

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What are some alternatives?

When comparing efibootmgr and Visual BCD Editor, you can also consider the following products

GRUB - Multiboot boot loader

EasyBCD - EasyBCD is NeoSmart Technologies multiple award-winning answer to tweaking Windows bootloader.

Grub2Win - Safely dual boot Windows and Linux without touching the Windows MBR.

Clover EFI bootloader - This is EFI-based bootloader for BIOS-based computers created as a replacement to EDK2/Duet...

OpenCore - OpenCore is a modern open-source macOS boot loader

EasyUEFI - Manage EFI/UEFI Boot Options & Manage EFI System Partitions & Fix EFI/UEFI Boot Issues

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