KBoot project is a proof-of-concept implementation of a Linux boot loader based on kexec. KBoot uses a boot loader like LILO or GRUB to load a regular Linux kernel as its first stage. Then, the full capabilities of the kernel can be used to locate and to access the kernel to be booted. KBoot...

boottool and Linux::Bootloader provide a generic interface for detecting the installed bootloader, updating bootloader configuration files, and performing boot-once to a given kernel. Supported bootloaders include grub, yaboot, lilo and elilo. There are essentially four major pieces in this...

runit is a cross-platform Unix init scheme with service supervision; a replacement for sysvinit and other init schemes. runit project runs on GNU/Linux, *BSD, Mac OS X, snf Solaris, and can easily be adapted to other Unix operating systems. runit implements a simple three-stage concept. Stage 1...


Platforms: Linux

Keyword: Boot, Init, Runit, Service, Supervision, System, Sysvinit, Unix

U-Boot is a Universal Bootloader project that provides firmware with full source code under GPL. Many CPU architectures are supported: PowerPC(MPC5xx, MPC8xx, MPC82xx, MPC7xx, MPC74xx, 4xx), ARM(ARM7, ARM9, StrongARM, Xscale), MIPS(4Kc,5Kc), x86. Whats New in This Release: Support for new...


Platforms: Linux

Keyword: Amcc, Arm, Boot, Esd, Support, System, Tq, U-boot, Uboot, Universal

Ext2 Filesystem Utilities project (e2fsprogs) contain all of the standard utilities for creating, fixing, configuring , and debugging ext2 filesystems..


Platforms: Linux

Keyword: Add Support, Addresses, Addresses Debian Bug, Addresses Debian Bugs, Boot, Filesystem, Filesystems, Fix, So That, Utilities

The Xbox Linux Project aims to privide a version of GNU/Linux for the Xbox, so that it can be used as an ordinary computer. Linux should make use of all Xbox hardware and allow to install and run software from standard i386 Linux distributions. An Xbox with Linux can be a full desktop...


Platforms: Linux

Keyword: Boot, Gnu Linux, Linux, Linux On The Microsoft Xbox, Microsoft, Microsoft Xbox, Project, So That, System, Used, Xbox, Xbox Linux, Xbox Linux Project

BUM - Boot-Up Manager is a Perl-Gtk2 application to handle runlevels configuration of any debian derivative system. With this program the user will easily start and stop boot-up scripts, without the necessity to handle thru complex links and permissions. Boot-Up Manager has been tested on an...


Platforms: Linux

Keyword: Boot, Boot-up, Bootup, Bum, Configuration, Manager, System

Make-Debian-X11 is an add-on which makes a template with the necessary replacement files for gBootRoots Yard Method. The root filesystem created from the template is user-mode-linux ready and includes X11, making it possible to run gBootRoot from within its own creation..


Platforms: Linux

Keyword: Boot, System

flashboot for OpenBSD is a set of makefiles, scripts, and support tools to build an OpenBSD image suitable for booting from read-only media, such as flash memory. The default image (smaller than 5Mb) is an image for a router/firewall with support for IPsec, SSH, IPv6 and IPv4 packet filtering,...


Platforms: Linux

Keyword: Boot, Flash, Flashboot, Image, Openbsd, System

kexec-chooser is a small utility that makes warm rebooting into new kernels under Debian a bit easier. Recent Linux kernels support a new feature called kexec. Basically it allows you to load a new kernel image into memory, and then boot into that kernel directory without having to do a full...


Platforms: Linux

Keyword: Boot, Kernels, Kexecchooser, New, Rebooting, Small, System, Utility, Warm

makebootfat is a command line utility able to create bootable USB disks for Linux and Windows using the FAT filesystem and syslinux. makebootfat is the most advanced tool available able to make bootable USB disks. Its able to autodetect/partition/format/populate the USB disk in a single step...


Platforms: Linux

Keyword: Boot, Bootable, Bootable Usb, Create, Create Bootable, Create Bootable Usb, Makebootfat, System, To Create, Tool

Upstart project is an event-based replacement for the /sbin/init daemon which handles starting of tasks and services during boot, stopping them during shutdown and supervising them while the system is running. It is being developed for the Ubuntu distribution, but is intended to be suitable for...


Platforms: Linux

Keyword: Boot, Daemon, Events, Replacement, Services, System, Tasks, Upstart

GRUB Splash Images package contains a collection of splashimages which can be used for GRUB. If youd like your splashimage in this package send them to mcgrof@ruslug.rutgers.edu. Quick tips for the impatient: convert -resize 640x480 -colors 14 image.png image.xpm && gzip image.xpm Quick...


Platforms: Linux

Keyword: Boot, Collection, Contains, Grub, Grub Splash, Grub Splash Images, Images, Package, Splash, Splash Images, System, Used

PXE Knife is a tool for booting various floppy based utilities via syslinux, allowing them to be booted off a CD, a hard drive, or over the network via PXE. PXE Knife can be used with a number of commonly used tools such as hard drive manufacturers utilities, memory testers, Linux recovery...


Platforms: Linux

Keyword: Boot, Booted Off, Booting, Cd, Knife, Pxe, Syslinux, System, Tool, Utilities, Via

LinuxBIOS project is aimed at replacing the normal BIOS with a little bit of hardware initialization and a compressed Linux kernel that can be booted from a cold start. The project was started as part of clustering research work in the Cluster Reseach Lab at the Advanced Computing Laboratory at...


Platforms: Linux

Keyword: Bit, Boot, Cluster, Hardware, Linuxbios, Little, Little Bit, Normal, Project, System

BootUtils project is a collection of utilities to facilitate booting of modern Kernel 2.6 based systems. BootUtils is designed for initramfs, although volunteers to add support for initrd are welcome. The process of finding the root volume either by label or explicit label= on the kernel...


Platforms: Linux

Keyword: Boot, Booting, Bootutils, Collection, Facilitate, Root, System, Utilities, Volume

openflash is an open source utility to (re)program flash BIOS chips. Initial support will be for the i-opener network appliance under Qnx since there is an immediate need. Usage: qnxflash [-r < file >] [-w < file >] [-v < file >] [-iadlcV] -r Read bios image from chip. -w Write bios image to...


Platforms: Linux

Keyword: Boot, Device, Device Id, Flash Bios, Open, Open Source, Openflash, Program, Program Flash, Source, System, Utility

sysinit is a system initialization and daemon management scheme for Linux (and possibly other Unix-like operating systems). The system initialization portion has no external requirements except a working BASH shell. The daemon management portion requires a working BASH shell and either runit or...


Platforms: Linux

Keyword: Boot, Sysinit, System

Timos rescue CD set provides an easy way to generate bootable CDROMs with a ready-to-use rescue system on them. The system is designed to be fully customizable and easy to build. The rescue system includes reiserfs, parted, partimage, nmap, w3m, bash, sshd, telnetd, ftpd, and nfsd. It is based...


Platforms: Linux

Keyword: Boot, Bootable, Cds, Rescue, Rescue Cd, Set, System, Timos

GNU GRUB project, which is a rewrite of GRUB, is alive and under development. GRUB aims at merging sources from PUPA in order to create the next generation of GNU GRUB. A mailing list and a wiki have been setup for discussing the development of GRUB.. Failmalloc - force to fail in allocating...


Platforms: Linux

Keyword: Boot, Gnu, Gnu Grub, Grand Unified Bootloader, Grub, Os, Support, System