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...Introduction (from http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/)
GRANDPA: GRUB is a Multiboot boot loader. It was derived from GRUB, the GRand Unified Bootloader, originally by Erich Stefan Boleyn.
DAD: GRUB4DOS made it easier for Windows/DOS users, but was still unreliable; the boot record was difficult to install for average users.
GRUB4USB was developed to automate the installation of the correct 446 bytes to the boot sector, providing Windows Users with a bootable USB Flash Drive which could contain any flavor of Linux (or other OS).
IDIOT PROOF:
GRUB4USB is "AUTOMATIC AND HANDS FREE". ...
This software boots your PC and analyse your filesystems. It displays a graphical menu for you to select which system to boot. Intended to replace LILO and Loadlin, written in C with GCC, fully real mode.
Perix is a MS-DOS compatible program, capable of running without an underlining OS. It is written in Turbo Pascal and Assembly. All parts of system are distributed under terms of the GNU General Public License v2.
AiR-Boot is a x86 boot-loader that resides completely in track 0 of the harddrive. It‘s also independent of any OS, features a BIOS-like built-in setup, is localized to German, Dutch, French, Italian, Russian (including Cyrillic) and Swedish.
GRUB for DOS is the dos extension of GRUB. It enables dos users to run the configuration console directly in real mode. The project also contains an utility called WINGRUB, an GUI intends to help configuring and installing GRUB in the WINDOWS environment
mbldr is a boot loader which fits into first sector of an HDD (MBR). It allows to choose which partition to boot and is intended to replace an MBR coming with DOS/Windows (fdisk /mbr). It may boot OSes above 1024cyl, Linux/BSD are also supported.
The netboot project allows booting a diskless PC over a TCP/IP based
network using standard protocols like BOOTP, DHCP and TFTP. It is
able to boot Linux, FreeBSD, multiple DOS variants (including MS-DOS, PC-DOS,
PTS-DOS, OpenDOS, NovellDOS, FreeDOS)
gives remote control of a PC running MS-DOS (which e.g. does not have a monitor display attached to it). The screen image (currently text mode only) is taken from the graphics card and transferred to other computer via serial link and displayed there