Diskless Iscsi Boot

Sick of the stupid blue-sky, everything's perfect in Microsoftland Windows 95/98/ME boot screen yet? Well, we were, and we decided that we weren't going to take it anymore! This is a collection of replacement logos for the Windows 95/98/ME boot screens. The Changer will automatically change your... Platforms: Windows

Safely and easily change your Windows boot screen with BootSkin. It allows you to replace your Windows boot up screen with ones you can download from websites such as WinCustomize or create yourself. It works on Windows 2K & XP and replaces no system files. Platforms: Windows

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

This is a Linux program for writing Microsoft compatible boot records. The program does the same as Microsoft "fdisk /mbr" to a hard disk or "sys d:" to a floppy or FAT partition except that it does not copy any system files, only the boot record is written. Platforms: *nix

Boot-US consists of an universal boot manager. It allows you to easily make use of all your existing operating systems. The boot manager can be comfortably installed directly under Windows. Download contains both the Windows GUI and DOS command line versions. Platforms: Windows

SLAMPP is a generic linux distribution which can boot and run directly off CD-ROM and has possibility to be installed onto harddisk. SLAMPP Live CD is designed to be used as an instant home server. Just like another linux live CD available at this moment, SLAMPP gives a linux newbie a chance to... Platforms: *nix

SFS-KNOPPIX is a kind of KNOPPIX which boots form Internet with a cloop on SFS (Self-certifying File System). SFS-KNOPPIX requires small boot loader (20MB image) and offers full KNOPPIX functions, Autoconfig, etc. SFS-KNOPPIX makes possible to change a cloop file (root file system of KNOPPIX)... Platforms: *nix

UNH-iSCSI provides a Linux-loadable initiator and target modules for the new IETF iSCSI protocol. The UNH-iSCSI project consists of vendor-independent reference implementations of both a software initiator and a software target emulator for the latest draft (20) of the new IETF protocol for... 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

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: *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

Diskless Remote Boot in Linux in short DRBL is an open source environment to to manage GNU/Linux operating system deployment. Imagine the time required to install GNU/Linux on 40, 30, or even 10 client machines individually. DRBL will allow you to configure all of your client computers by... Platforms: *nix

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: *nix

NimbleX distrbution is a small but versatile operating system which is able to boot mainly from a small 8 cm CD but also from flash memory like Mp3 players and USB pens. Because it runs entirely from a CD or USB it doesnt require installation or even a hard drive. NimbleX is based on Slackware... 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

Netstation is a Linux distribution that enables you to convert standard PCs into full-featured diskless thin clients supporting all major connectivity protocols. The project can be booted from the network using Etherboot/PXE or from standard media like floppy/CD/hd/flash-disk etc. The... Platforms: *nix

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

Etherboot is Open Source code for creating boot ROMs for network booting x86, AMD64, Itanium, Hammer, Hyperstone and ARM (noMMU) platforms. Platforms: *nix

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... Platforms: *nix

kiscsiadm is an intuitive user-interface for ISCSI fitting into the KDE-Desktop environment. kiscsiadmin project allows target-discovery, login/logout and gives quick access to the connected ISCSI-disks. The profile-based configuration management makes it comfortable to access several... Platforms: *nix