Boot Software for MS-DOS

Browse free open source Boot software and projects for MS-DOS below. Use the toggles on the left to filter open source Boot software by OS, license, language, programming language, and project status.

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    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
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    Downloads: 387 This Week
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    Downloads: 93 This Week
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    Smart BootManager is an os independent BootManager which has easy to use interface and many other features. The main goals of SBM are to be absolutely OS independent, flexible and full-featured. It has all of the features needed to boot a variety of OS.
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    Downloads: 22 This Week
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    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.
    Downloads: 11 This Week
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    XOSL is a graphical boot manager that supports multi-booting of various operating systems. Development is currently done under the XOSL2 title. Historical version download below:
    Downloads: 6 This Week
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    Etherboot is Open Source code for creating boot ROMs for network booting x86, AMD64, Itanium, Hammer, Hyperstone and ARM (noMMU) platforms.
    Downloads: 10 This Week
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    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)
    Downloads: 5 This Week
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    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
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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    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.
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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  • 10
    Several small projects; A simple UDP chat program in visual basic, a full screen movie player, a tv guide program for Canberra, Australia
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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    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.
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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    This project is based off of Sam Rape. The final product is a bootable floppy which copies the sam file, compresses it and puts it on a disk. A detailed description can be found at datastronghold.com/archive/t10429.html
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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    Merge the Solaris downstream version of GRUB legacy GPL source code into GRUB4DOS
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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  • 14
    Backups specified files (e.g. system/ini files); Newer versions optimized for windows compatibility (backups regestry & some system files) Written in QuickBasic 4.5
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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