Top Automation Software for Linux

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 isn't made by this program, but there lots of compressed filesytems out there...

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. It's able to...

Timo's 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,...

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...

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...