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Petitboot

https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/geoff/petitboot/petitboot.html
ncurses version of petitboot, a kexec based bootloader

Petitboot is a platform independent bootloader based on the Linux kexec warm reboot mechanism. Petitboot supports loading kernel and initrd image files from any mountable Linux device, plus can load image files from the network using TFTP, NFS, HTTP, HTTPS, and SCP. Petitboot can boot any operating system supported by kexec.





Licensing

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License

GPLv2

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Debian: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org>

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29 May 2013

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License: gpl-2.0

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Debian: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org>

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29 May 2013

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License: lgpl-3.0

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Other

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Debian: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org>

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29 May 2013

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License: tux

tux The copyright holder of this file allows anyone to use it for any purpose, provided that you acknowledge lewing@isc.tamu.edu

and The GIMP if someone asks.




Leaders and contributors

Contact(s)Role
Geoff Levand contact


Resources and communication

AudienceResource typeURI
Debian (Ref)https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/petitboot
Downloadhttp://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/geoff/petitboot.git


Software prerequisites




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Date 2015-07-17
Source Debian
Source link http://packages.debian.org/sid/petitboot

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