Lilo

LILO is a Boot loader for Linux/x86 and other PC operating systems. It is responsible for loading your Linux kernel from either a floppy or a hard drive and passing control to it. It is capable of booting beyond cylinder 1024 of a hard disk if the BIOS supports EDD packet call extensions to the...

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...

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: *nix

Install Kernel interfaces with the Linux operating system by running a series of functions or groups of commands that automate the compiling or recompiling and installation process. Install Kernel project consists of three groups of functions: building the kernel and moving files, checking...


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GRUB4DOS can boot off DOS / LINUX, or via Windows boot manager / syslinux / lilo, or from MBR / CD. It also has builtin BIOS disk emulation, ATAPI CDROM driver, etc. GRUB4DOS can be easily run via command-line so you can take it for a test drive to see what it's all about!


Platforms: Windows

Zhcon is a fast double-byte virtual console (terminal) for Chinese/Japanese/Korean (CJK) running under GNU/Linux and FreeBSD. It adds the ability of displaying and inputing CJK double-byte characters on console device. Here are some key features of "Zhcon": A*A* Video card support Support a...


Platforms: *nix

KLILO is a utility to configure LILO and is written by Andreas Heck. The newest version is 0.2.3 and it is published under the terms of the GNU General Public License. It covers the most common options of LILO and is quite stable since version 0.2.2.


Platforms: *nix

Castle is a server distribution from the ALT Linux Team in Russia. Installation instructions and some other documentation is available in English. Brief RSBAC instructions: 1. During installation process you will have to create security officer account. This is a user that can setup RSBAC...


Platforms: *nix

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: *nix

cxmon is an interactive command-driven file manipulation tool that is inspired by the "Amiga Monitor" by Timo Rossi.The project has commands and features similar to a machine code monitor/debugger, but it lacks any functions for running/tracing code. There are, however, built-in PowerPC, 680x0,...


Platforms: *nix

disktypes purpose of disktype is to detect the content format of a disk or disk image. It knows about common file systems, partition tables, and boot codes. The program is written in C and is designed to compile on any modern Unix flavour1. It is self-contained and in general works without...


Platforms: *nix

Core is a minimal distribution of the GNU/Linux operating system designed to be the basis for a complete system constructed by the end user. A fresh installation of Core will boot into a console and provide the user with the tools needed to download, compile and install other applications. Core...


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Crash Recovery for Linux sounds a bit superfluous. Linux is regarded as one of todays most stable Operating Systems. In the case of some hardware failure like a broken disk it can however be handy. Of course your machine doesnt have to have linux installed to make use of the CRK kit. There are...


Platforms: *nix

Here is the description you can find at Freshmeat: Gujin is a PC boot loader which can analyze your partitions and filesystems. It finds the Linux kernel images available, as well as other bootable partitions (for *BSD, MS-DOS, Windows, etc.), files (*.kgz) and bootable disk images (*.bdi), and...


Platforms: *nix

Independence is not just one of these commercial distributions who have been appearing daily for the last months. It aims at being a distribution allowing the users to make hear their voice in distribution design. It is built by volunteers who no longer accept having an aristocracy of...


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Splashy for Edgy project paints graphic images directly to framebuffers using libdirectfb. Splashy is a boot splash program that doesnt require patching the Linux kernel. Splashy project paints graphic images directly to framebuffers using libdirectfb....


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Splashy is a boot splash program that doesnt require patching the Linux kernel. Splashy project paints graphic images directly to framebuffers using libdirectfb. ----------------------------------------------------------------- VGA settings...


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The cryptoswap package supports building an encrypted swap partition when a system boots. This must be necessary on systems that use encrypted filesystems because plaintext secrets may be written to disk when memory is swapped to disk. Cryptoswap.sh should be installed in /etc/init.d. During...


Platforms: *nix

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: *nix

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: *nix