boot-loader on SWiK

LILO

Mon, 08 Aug 2005 17:11:12 -0700

LILO is a Boot loader for Linux/x86 and other PC operating systems.

Gujin

Wed, 25 Jan 2006 02:03:53 -0800

Gujin is a PC boot loader which can analyze your filesystems.

Gujin finds the Linux kernel images available, as well as other bootable partitions (for *BSD, MS-DOS, Windows, etc.), and displays a graphical menu for selecting which system to boot.

Because it understands the structure of Linux kernel images, Gujin does not need LILO and can even load very big kernels. There is no need to execute anything after making a new kernel: just copy the kernel image file into the ”/boot” directory. Gujin is written almost entirely in C with GCC, and it fully executes in real mode to be as compatible as possible.

GNU Grub

Wed, 06 Jul 2005 16:48:26 -0700

GNU GRUB is a Multiboot boot loader. It was derived from GRUB, GRand Unified Bootloader, which was originally designed and implemented by Erich Stefan Boleyn.

GRUB 0.9.x is now referred to as GRUB Legacy and is no longer developed or supported. All active development is now being done in the GRUB 2 fork.