Knowledge: booting
See Also:
- computers → software → disk management → partition
- computers → software → operating systems → bios
- computers → software → operating systems → boot managers
- computers → software → operating systems → linux → kernel
Links
- Lilo
http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/workshops/linux_install/lilo.html - LILO - The Linux boot Loader.
- Das Boot
http://pclt.cis.yale.edu/pclt/BOOT/DEFAULT.HTM - Getting the Boot, information about booting x86 computer systems.
- LILO fails: Error messages and their interpretation
http://sdb.suse.de/sdb/en/html/kgw_lilo_errmsg.html - Lilo error messages from SuSE database.
- Linux above 1024 cylinders and LILO
http://sdb.suse.de/sdb/en/html/1024_Zylinder.html - Linux above 1024 cylinders errors with LILO from the SuSE Support Database.
- learning@TasLUG: From Power Up To Bash Prompt.
http://www.netspace.net.au/~gok/power2bash/ - A HOWTO for Building a Minimal Linux System from Source Code
- TIARA (utcboot)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/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.
- alios - Linux boot loader
http://www.telos.de/linux/alios/default_e.htm - 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.
- The Boot Process
http://www.nondot.org/~sabre/os/articles/TheBootProcess/ - Selection of articles about booting x86 processors.
- Zaitcev's Linux Page
http://people.redhat.com/zaitcev/linux/ - Proll open source firmware replacement for Sun JavaStations to boot Linux (source, binaries), issues, swap over network. Also, other notes, Infiniband, X11 code, other patches, Barbie Camera toy code and links.
- tcron : ATX power crond
http://tcron.sourceforge.net/ - Tcron integrates 'cron' with ATX power-up capability. It can invoke multiple cron jobs with power-up/shutdown a day.
- MILO: Alpha Miniloader
http://milo.core-systems.de/ - MILO is the bootloader for Linux on the Alpha. Sources for setting it up and using it.
- Lilo mini-Howto
http://en.tldp.org/HOWTO/LILO.html - Lilo mini-Howto for the boot loader software.
- Gujin boot/system loader
http://gujin.org/ - Starts a PC from hard disk, CD-ROM, USB key, or floppy, and automatically detects operating systems and Linux kernels.
- Single-User Booting Under Linux
http://linuxgazette.net/issue19/booting.html - Linux Gazette article about Single User booting under Linux.
- Master Boot Record Tut
http://www.nondot.org/sabre/os/files/Booting/mbr.txt - Part of the "How it works" series, which includes a disassembly of the MBR produced by the FDISK program.
- Daniel's NASM Bootstrap Tutorial
http://www.nondot.org/sabre/os/files/Booting/nasmBoot.txt - A guide for those who want to create their own bootstraps, by Daniel Marjamäki.
- Writting a Boot Sector
http://www.nondot.org/sabre/os/files/Booting/PolyOS.html - A brief explanation of the objective of a boot sector, followed by the source for an example sector.
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