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...

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...

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

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

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

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

slakbootIBS (Slackware Interactive Boot Scripts) is an enhanced set of replacement boot scripts for the Slackware Linux distribution. Slackware Interactive Boot Scripts includes a set of control and dispatch tools for configuring and booting with colorized interactive scripts. The new boot...


Platforms: Linux

Keyword: Boot, Enhanced, Interactive, Linux, Scripts, Slackware, Slackware Linux, System

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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