Boot Loaders
- General boot loaders
- GNU GRUB
(Portable and advanced boot loader)
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- Lilo
("Linux Loader". Boot loader for x86 compatible systems.)
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- Silo ("Sparc Improved boot LOader".
Linux boot loader for the Sun Sparc and UltraSparc systems.)
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- elilo
(EFI
compatible boot loader for Int*l IA-64 and x86 compatible systems)
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- TCCBOOT
(x86 compatible boot loader which uses
TinyCC to compile
C and assembly sources and boot the resulting executable)
- XOSL
(Graphical boot loader for x86 compatible systems supporting
several operating systems)
- EMILE
("Early Macintosh Image LoadEr". Boot loader for m68k based Linux systems,
such as MacII and the Quadra 610)
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- Boot loaders for embedded systems
- U-Boot
("Universal Boot loader".
Boot loader for PowerPC or ARM based embedded Linux systems.)
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- rrload
(Boot loader for ARM based embedded Linux systems)
- CRL/OHH
(Flash boot loader for ARM based embedded Linux systems)
- RedBoot
(Red Hat eCos derived,
portable, embedded system boot loader)
- PPCBOOT
(Boot loader for PowerPC based embedded Linux systems)
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- Alios
(Assembler based Linux loader which can do basic hardware initialization
from ROM or RAM. The goal is to eliminate the need for a firmware BIOS
on embedded systems.)
- FILO
(x86 compatible boot loader which loads boot images from the
local filesystem, without help from legacy BIOS services.
Expected usage is to flash it into the BIOS ROM together
with LinuxBIOS.)
- Network boot loaders
- PXE Linux (Network
based bootstrapping using TFTP)
- Etherboot
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- LTSP ("Linux Terminal Server Project".
Collection of server software to setup a console or X based thin-client
environment.)
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- Boot loader related programs
