Difference between revisions of "Bootloader"
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! [[RedBoot]] | ! [[RedBoot]] | ||
| − | | yes || yes || yes || yes || yes || | + | | yes || yes || yes || yes || yes || allows networked setup |
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! [[Lilo]] | ! [[Lilo]] | ||
| − | | yes || - || - || - || - || | + | | yes || - || - || - || - || x86 only, requires nasm to build |
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! [[Grub]] | ! [[Grub]] | ||
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! [[Syslinux]] | ! [[Syslinux]] | ||
| − | | yes || - || - || - || - || | + | | yes || - || - || - || - || variants (including) isolinux are very flexible for booting x86 |
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! [http://www.coreboot.org/Welcome_to_coreboot coreboot], formerly known as LinuxBIOS | ! [http://www.coreboot.org/Welcome_to_coreboot coreboot], formerly known as LinuxBIOS | ||
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| − | ! [Yaboot] | + | ! [http://yaboot.ozlabs.org/ Yaboot] |
| − | | - || - || - || | + | | - || - || - || yes || - || |
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Revision as of 17:23, 13 April 2009
Briefly, a bootloader is the first software program that runs when a computer starts. It is responsible for loading and transferring control to the operating system kernel software (such as the Hurd or the Linux). The kernel, in turn, initializes the rest of the operating system (e.g. GNU).
List of bootloaders
| Bootloaders | x86 (IA32) | ARM / XScale | MIPS | PowerPC | SuperH | remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| U-Boot | no | yes | yes | yes | yes | allows networked setup |
| RedBoot | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | allows networked setup |
| Lilo | yes | - | - | - | - | x86 only, requires nasm to build |
| Grub | yes | - | - | yes | - | |
| Syslinux | yes | - | - | - | - | variants (including) isolinux are very flexible for booting x86 |
| coreboot, formerly known as LinuxBIOS | yes | - | - | - | - | Conference talk by Peter Stuge at Embedded Linux Conference Europe 2008, video |
| APEX | - | yes | - | - | - | |
| Blob | - | yes | - | - | - | |
| YAMON | - | - | yes | - | - | |
| Yaboot | - | - | - | yes | - |
A dash '-' means: not researched...
A lot more exhaustive list is available at Wikipedia
