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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...

TCCBOOT project is a boot loader able to compile and boot a Linux kernel directly from its source code.TCCBOOT is only 138 KB big (uncompressed code) and it can compile and run a typical Linux kernel in less than 15 seconds on a 2.4 GHz Pentium 4.TCCBOOT...

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...

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...

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.What is...

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...

Covert Linux is a technology of installation for Linux without repartition the disk and running from native system, e.g. you can install Linux from ,say, Windows by grabbing some SETUP.EXE, launching it and then clicking on desktop icon.Brief, but...

WrapLinux is a utility to wrap a Linux kernel, together with a kernel command line and one or more initrd/initramfs files into a single file in ELF or NBI format.This is required by certain boot protocols, such as Etherboot/Netboot, and may otherwise be...

Etherboot project is a software package for creating ROM images that can download code over an Ethernet network to be executed on an x86 computer.Many network adapters have a socket where a ROM chip can be installed. Etherboot is code that can be put in...

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,...