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OS Boot Select (OS-BS) - Boot Manager - OS Boot Select (os-bs) is a replacement of the ordinary master boot program for "PC"-compatible computers. It provides a customizable boot menu with a timeout and the abiltity to automatically set the active partition before booting. This avoids boot problems with some UNIX systems. Unlike the OS/2 boot manager's it only requires the 512 byte of the master boot sector (sector 0) and some additional sectors which can be anywhere on the disk but no separate 1MB partition.

OSL2000 R3 - An advanced boot manager - If your system has multiple OSs, you can use OSL2000 to easily boot and maintain them. Lets you maintain multiple copies of Windows. Can be installe in a second

Operating Systems: My Experiences with the Boot Sector - Here is some code from a real OS that I was working on. This includes utilities to write a boot sector to a floppy, and more!

Poof, a boot loader for Linux on iMacs - A boot loader for Linux on iMacs

ShagWare Online Software - Free online software including Solo, the command or menu driven (through shell scripts) boot loader for Shag/OS, Linux, and other PC OS's.

Single-User Booting Under Linux - Linux Gazette article about Single User booting under Linux.

Syslinux Boot Loader - SYSLINUX is a boot loader for the Linux operating system which operates off MS-DOS floppies. It is intended to simplify first-time installation of Linux. SYSLINUX could in conjunction with the UMSDOS filesystem, completely eliminate the need for distribution of raw diskette images for boot floppies.

TIARA (utcboot) - Talkware TIARA, an Openbios/GRUB/PFORTH composite, BIOS replacement. Boots an unmodifed linux kernel from an IDE drive or ethernet, using only 128kb of flash. Works with INTEL/AMD K6/2-450, SiS 530/5595 and 8139 enet. VGA & Serial console supported.

The LinuxBIOS Home Page - The Linux BIOS project is working on making Linux our BIOS.

Two Kernel Monte (Linux loading Linux on x86) - Load a second kernel from Linux on x86 and reboot into it.

alios - Linux boot loader - The alios boot loader for Linux is a small assembler loader code designed to load a Linux kernel and RAM disk image from ROM after initialising the most basic hardware features. The current version is configured to initialise the registers of an AMD Elan SC400 microcontroller and start Linux on it%

gag boot manager - GAG (initials, in spanish, of Graphical Boot Manager) is a Boot Manager program. It's loaded when the computer is turned on and allows you to choose the operating system you want to use.

gujin boot/system loader - Floppy boot loader - will automatically detect boot kernel.

initrd.txt - Information on using the initrd tool when booting Linux.

kBootManager - Prohect home for the kBootManager.

learning@TasLUG: From Power Up To Bash Prompt. - A HOWTO for Building a Minimal Linux System from Source Code

ux for Linux - ux is a 32-bit windows program that is able to load Linux from within windows. It depends on the LOADLIN package from Hans Lermen.

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