Boot 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: *nix

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: *nix

DietLinux is a distribution based on dietlibc. It contains a 2.6.x linux kernel, and will never support older kernels that do not support for devfs and tmpfs. The boot process is optimized for small size, the upcoming 0.2-release should be able to boot from cdrom, floppy or usb-stick on all... Platforms: *nix

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: *nix

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: *nix

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: *nix

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: *nix

grub-choose-default is a simple but handy GUI to set the grub default for the next boot. Control Grub Default through a GUI Do you have a dual boot system? Isn't it annoying when you want to reboot from Linux into Windows or vice-versa, and you have to wait for the machine to shut down, BIOS to... Platforms: *nix

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: *nix

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: *nix

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: *nix

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: *nix

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: *nix

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: *nix

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: *nix

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: *nix

Professional Windows XP partition recovery software is a program that recovers Windows XP data from formatted, deleted, damaged, corrupted, resized, recreated, split or missing partitions of Windows XP. Windows XP partition data recovery software extends the abilities of the users to recover... Platforms: Windows

Boot-up system is freeware program which enable auto run of application on CD/DVD/Blu-Ray/HD-DVD media. Program works on all Windows environment. Platforms: Windows

MiniTool Power Data Recovery Boot Disk helps user to recover data when operating system is damaged. You can start computer as well as run Power Data Recovery via boot disk. Our data recovery boot disk can start through not only CD/DVD but also USB flash drive. Thus, you can recover data with USB... Platforms: Windows

PC Win Boot is used to create custom Windows PE boot disks. The target media could be a CD, DVD or USB stick/Drive. You can include any programs into your own boot disk and be a computer expert. Boot disk can be used as System recovery tools or mini and portable Windows system. Platforms: Windows