• Network booting, shortened netboot, is the process of booting a computer from a network rather than a local drive. This method of booting can be used...
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    Multi-booting Boot disk Bootkit Comparison of boot loaders Linux startup process Macintosh startup Microreboot Multi boot Network booting RedBoot Self-booting...
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    Bootloader (redirect from Boot loader)
    the booting process. As with the second-stage boot loader, network booting begins by using generic network access methods provided by the network interface's...
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    UEFI (redirect from Windows 8 secure boot)
    GRUB for booting (e.g. SUSE Linux), the same holds true for OpenBSD. For booting from iSCSI iPXE can be used as a UEFI application loaded by U-Boot. Intel's...
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    system booting, installation and deployment. Since the beginning of computer networks, there has been a persistent need for client systems which can boot appropriate...
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  • Network File System (NFS) is a distributed file system protocol originally developed by Sun Microsystems (Sun) in 1984, allowing a user on a client computer...
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  • option ROMs completely determine the boot priority between adapter cards that are enabled for booting, and the boot devices supported by the motherboard...
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  • Trivial File Transfer Protocol (category Network booting)
    One of its primary uses is in the early stages of nodes booting from a local area network. TFTP has been used for this application because it is very...
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  • IPXE (category Network booting)
    (re-flashing) the existing standard PXE ROM on a supported network interface card (NIC), or by booting the NIC's standard PXE ROM and then chainloading into...
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    Diskless node (redirect from Network PC)
    workstation or personal computer without disk drives, which employs network booting to load its operating system from a server. (A computer may also be...
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  • ISCSI (category Network booting)
    off the iSCSI remote boot process, using the booting network interface's MAC address to direct the computer to the correct iSCSI boot target[citation needed]...
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  • Bootstrap Protocol (redirect from BootP)
    interface cards as well as system boards with on-board network interfaces, thus allowing direct network booting. The BOOTP was first defined in September 1985...
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  • Network Bootable Image (NBI) is a legacy format that wraps operating system images to makes it possible for Etherboot to load the images directly. NBI...
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  • The booting process of Microsoft Windows varies between different releases. In Windows versions 1.01 to Windows 2.11, the system was loaded when WIN.COM...
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    bootloaders.[dead link] It supports network booting using TFTP/DHCP. Free and open-source software portal /boot/ Comparison of boot loaders "LILO vs. GRUB [LWN...
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  • to run IBM's AIX operating system and their ROM specifically prevented booting the classic Mac OS. This makes them the last non-Macintosh desktop computers...
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    anything on any of the machines, by simply booting one machine (the server) from the CD, and PXE booting the rest of the machines. Diskless node A diskless...
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    Dnsmasq (category Free network-related software)
    dnsmasq supports modern Internet standards such as IPv6 and DNSSEC, network booting with support for BOOTP, PXE and TFTP and also Lua scripting. Some Internet...
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    storage, and are used to control U-Boot behavior such as the default boot command and timeout before auto-booting, as well as hardware data such as the...
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  • GPXE (category Network booting)
    gPXE and Etherboot network booting image Introduction to Network Booting and Etherboot PXE dust: scalable day-to-day diskless booting (via Archive.org last...
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    BIOS (redirect from BIOS Boot Sequence)
    in the boot sector itself or by other programs loaded through the boot process. A non-disk device such as a network adapter attempts booting by a procedure...
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  • systems over a network. NIM is analogous to Kickstart in the Linux world. NIM is a client-server system in which a NIM server provides a boot image to client...
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  • NetBoot was a technology from Apple which enabled Macs with capable firmware (i.e. New World ROM) to boot from a network, rather than a local hard disk...
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  • JumpStart (software) (category Network booting)
    main parts: network booting of a system, and then network installation. Network booting proceeds similarly to Solaris' standard network booting capabilities...
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  • controller drivers as with the Windows PE Capture boot image. The system is booted using PXE network booting and the Windows PE Apply image is loaded. The...
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  • storage area networks (SANs) use Fibre Channel Protocol (FCP) over Fibre Channel connections. Also, for embedded systems, network booting, and servers...
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  • depend on UEFI firmware. coreboot Booting process of Windows These modes tend to support a feature to resume regular booting Garri, Khireddine; Kenaza, Tayeb;...
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  • The Linux booting process involves multiple stages and is in many ways similar to the BSD and other Unix-style boot processes, from which it derives....
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  • Cobbler (software) (category Network booting)
    Cobbler is a Linux provisioning server that facilitates and automates the network-based system installation of multiple computer operating systems from a...
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    SystemRescue (category Operating system distributions bootable from read-only media)
    4 May 2024. "SystemRescue - PXE network booting". www.system-rescue.org. Retrieved 4 May 2024. "SystemRescue - Booting SystemRescue". www.system-rescue...
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