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...

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...

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

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...


Platforms: Linux

Keyword: Based, Based On, Boot, Boot Loader, Kboot, Kernel, Linux, Linux Boot, Linux Boot Loader, Loader, Proof-of-concept, System

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

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

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

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

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

mkinitramfs is intended to create the ultimate initramfs image. mkinitramfs is designed to boot from any media (SATA, PATA, SCSI, USB, CD-ROM, etc.) without any changes being made to your disk. However, it is very simple (about 400 lines of code)..


Platforms: Linux

Keyword: Boot, Create, Initramfs, Intended, Mkinitramfs, System, To Create, Ultimate

Yaboot project is a bootloader (like lilo or grub) for PPC machines. It is a PowerPC bootloader for Open Firmware based machines including New World Apple Macintosh, IBM RS/6000, IBM pSeries and IBM OpenPower machines. Whats New in This Release: - Netbooting on pSeries, pxelinux-style...


Platforms: Linux

Keyword: Boot, Bootloader, Grub, Ibm, Lilo, Ppc, Project, System, Yaboot

Linux graphical bootsplash allows you to use custom graphics during early system startup. It makes it possible to place a nice graphic behind or above the kernel boot messages. Linux graphical bootsplash hooks into the fbcon layer and, if activated, searches the initial ramdisk for a JPEG...


Platforms: Linux

Keyword: Boot, Bootsplash, Graphical, Jpeg, Linux, System

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

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...


Platforms: Linux

Keyword: Boot, Bootloader, Boottool, Detecting, Installed, Interface, Provide, 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

BootRoot creates a boot disk with lilo, a kernel and an initrd image. The initrd script mounts another root disk with a compressed (gzip or bzip2) filesystem. The root filesystem isnt made by this program, but there lots of compressed filesytems out there to use. You can use a bzip2...


Platforms: Linux

Keyword: Boot, Bootroot, Creates, Root, System

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

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

Yard is a suite of Perl scripts for creating rescue disks (also called bootdisks) for Linux. A rescue disk is a self-contained Linux kernel and filesystem on a floppy diskette, usually used when you cant (or dont want to) boot off your hard disk. A rescue disk usually contains utilities for...


Platforms: Linux

Keyword: Boot, Checks, Disk, Disks, Perl Scripts, Rescue, Rescue Disks, Suite, System, Yard

PAUD (Parted And Utilities Disk) is a Linux utility boot disk distribution. It fits on a single 1.44 floppy disk. It contains mc, parted, and other utilities such as filesystem utilities for ext2, ext3, and Reiserfs. It is great for partition maintenance and for rescue purposes. The latest...


Platforms: Linux

Keyword: Boot, Disk, Dma, Filesystem, Kernel, Linux Utility, Parted, Paud, Reiserfs, Scsi, Support, System