EMILE is the Early Mac Image Loader, a bootloader for loading Linux on Macintosh computers that have m68k processors. It was written by Laurent Vivier, and is meant to eventually replace the Penguin booter that is more usually in use.

EMILE
Developer(s)Laurent Vivier
Stable release
0.14 / September 5, 2013
TypeBootloader
LicenseGPLv2
Websitehttps://gitorious.org/emile/mainline

In contrast to the Penguin booter, which requires a working classic Mac OS installation, EMILE modifies the boot block on a hard disk to boot Linux directly.

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