Open Source ChromeOS Boot Software

Ventoy is an open source tool to create bootable USB drive for ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI files. With Ventoy, you don't need to format the disk over and over, you just need to copy the ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI files to the USB drive and boot them directly. You can copy many files at a time and Ventoy will give you a boot menu to select them. You can also browse ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI files in local disks and boot them. x86 Legacy BIOS, IA32 UEFI, x86_64 UEFI, ARM64 UEFI and MIPS64EL UEFI are supported in the same way. Most types of OS supported (Windows/WinPE/Linux/ChromeOS/Unix/VMware/Xen...) 1100+ ISO files are tested, 90%+ distros in distrowatch.com supported.

rEFIt is a boot menu and maintenance toolkit for EFI-based machines like the Intel Macs.

GAG is a graphical boot manager, designed to be easy-to-use and intuitive, but without loosing advanced features, like passwords or swapping drives.

Dibbler is a portable DHCPv6 implementation. Is supports stateful (i.e. IPv6 address granting) as well as stateless (i.e. option granting) autoconfiguration for IPv6. Linux 2.4/2.6/3.0, Windows XP/2003/Vista/7/8 (experimental for NT4/2000), Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD.

TeutonPE is inspired by PortableApps.com combined with a PeBuilder compiled Boot USB / CD. Programs can be used, even when there is no OS installed. BB4win is used for Live Menu and as the default Shell.All Plugins are also BartPE & XPE compatible

Ranish Boot and Partitioning Tools

Committed to the development of fundamental ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface) components for Linux. This includes a generic ACPI table parser, AML interpreter, bus and device drivers, policy, user interface, and support tools.

Multi Boot Manager allow chang the boot, this version need be insert into MASTER BOOT RECORD (MBR, track 0, side 0, sector 0), and the original content need be insert into last sector (Sector B3F or Physical address Track 4f, Side 1, Sector 12h). Made in

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)

EfiPy is a Python Module on UEFI shell which can access UEFI BIOS kernel interface - System Table - Runtime Services - Boot Services pAnalyzer package - Tracing UEFI protocol calling flow Output protocol flow to screen or file with XML format CorePy (assembly package) - Simple Assembly code in Python environment. EfiPy Shell package- Simple uefi shell program coded with EfiPy library to prove EfiPy workable EfiPy leverage these open source packages - ctypes, CorePy. Samples https://sourceforge.net/u/efipy/svn/HEAD/tree/Trunk/ EfiPy Author: https://www.linkedin.com/in/max-wu-a9068b90/

A web based GUI for managing PXE boot and optionally managing DHCP service. Also supports creating and serving Kickstart and preseed scripts. This provides a client install in one click. This is a generic framework created to work with anything that's PXE bootable. Adding new hosts can be done via "PXE enrollment" where the client PXE boots to enroll into OneClickKick. Easily integrated with existing naming sources such as NIS and LDAP for central lookup of host and mac address information. OneClickKIck can also be integrated with FreeIPA (www.freeipa.org) to allow adding and modifying hosts directly in IPA.

ARMboot is an Open-Source firmware suite for ARM based platforms. ARMboot is heavily based on the sister-project PPCboot, which provides similar functionality on PowerPC based systems. ARMboot shall be a common, easy-to-use and easy-to-port boot platform

fat_imgen is a utility you can use to create and modify FAT12 floppy images with.

grub2rand is a perl script designed to change the grub2 picture randomly. Choose a folder with your pictures in it and every time you log into your computer, grub2rand will choose a new picture for the next startup.

Several small projects; A simple UDP chat program in visual basic, a full screen movie player, a tv guide program for Canberra, Australia

CIniFile is a C++ class to read and write inifiles in microsoft ini format. There is also a plain C version available. IniFiles.

The FDOS Operaing System is 100% written in Assembler (NASM). It supports FAT 12, TSR and a small Multi Kernel System. The source is very good documentated (only in English). A German, russian and English Documentation (about 40 pages) are included.

Multicast BOOTP Java server and C client

Sets out to be an innovative new operating system while retaining compatibility with POSIX and Win32

Boot loader and FLASH burner for the Motorola 68360 processor (aka Power QUICC). Based on CoLILO linux loader for Motorola Coldfire processors, however this boot loader is OS independent. Supports systems with multiple FLASH devices, runs from RAM for f

Amacdys is a single floppy operating system for playing mp3 CDs. Or Amacdys is bootable mp3 player, that fits into single floppy.

BIOS for Samsung S3C4510B based boards. You can use it to setup CPU/ROM/SDRAM/EXTIO, manage and burn flash, load OS kernel and pass arguments to OS kernel (now only uClinux).

Platform - independent implementation of Bart's Cdrpack (http://www.nu2.nu) to simplify building of MultibootCD using Boot Scriptor and others. BuildMultiboot is entirely written in Java using Swing and only needs cdrecord/mkisofs and a bourne shell to r

Covert Linux is technology of instalation for Linux without repartition the disk and running from native system, e.g. you can install Linux from ,say, Windows by grabbing some SETUP.EXE, launching it and then clicking on desktop icon.

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