Free nocona boots software for linux

TCCBOOT project is a boot loader able to compile and boot a Linux kernel directly from its source code.

TCCBOOT is only 138 KB big (uncompressed code) and it can compile and run a typical Linux kernel in less than 15 seconds on a 2.4 GHz Pentium 4.

TCCBOOT is based on the TinyCC compiler, assembler and linker. TinyCC is an experiment to produce a very small and simple C compiler compatible with the GNU C compiler and binary utilities.

TCCBOOT boots the same way as a Linux kernel, so any boot loader which can run a bzImage Linux kernel image can run TCCBOOT. I only tested it with ISOLINUX, but LILO or GRUB should work too.

TCCBOOT reads C or assembly sources from a gzipped ROMFS filesystem stored in an Initial Ram Disk (initrd). It first reads the file boot/tccargs which contains the TinyCC command line (same syntax as the tcc executable). The TinyCC invocation should output one binary image kernel. This image is loaded at address 0x00100000. TCCBOOT then does a jump to the address 0x00100000 in 32 bit flat mode. This is compatible with the ABI of the vmlinux kernel image.

Compilation:

TCCBOOT was only tested with Linux 2.4.26. In order to build TCCBOOT, you must first compile a 2.4.26 kernel because for simplicity TCCBOOT uses some binary files and headers from the Linux kernel. TCCBOOT also needs the source code of TinyCC (tested with TinyCC version 0.9.21). You can modify the Makefile to give the needed paths.

Example:

An "Hello World" ROMFS partition is included (initrd.img). You can rebuild it from the example/ directory. You can test it with the QEMU PC emulator with the qemu-tccboot script.

Kernel compilation:

For your information, the patch linux-2.4.26-tcc.patch gives the necessary modifications to build a Linux kernel with TCCBOOT (NOTE: it is not suffisant to build the kernel with its own Makefiles - I never tried). The corresponding kernel configuration is in file linux-2.4.26-config. Patches are necessary for the following reasons:

- unsupported assembly directives: .rept, .endr, .subsection
- #define __ASSEMBLY__ needed in assembly sources
- static variables cannot be seen from the inline assembly code
- typing/lvalue problems with ? :
- no long long bit fields
- aligned attribute not supported for whole structs, only for fields
- obscur preprocessor bug

Some of these problems could easily be fixed, but I am too lazy now. It is sure that there are still many bugs in the kernel generated by TinyCC/TCCBOOT, but at least it can boot and launch a shell.

Linux on a Stick is an attempt to make a Live-CD/USB-Flash server Linux distro. At its heart is a very small and simple Linux distro that boots off CD/Flash and runs from RAM (Ie no spinning hard drives of death).
This approach allows us to strip the OS to its very basic components, which minimizes the amount of resources required. This distro is targeted towards Server administrator who are familiar with Linux, its only configuration method is the command line.
Enhancements:
- Linux kernel 2.4.33 was replaced with 2.6.18.8.
- A USB booting problem that would prevent it from booting on some BIOSs (Namely AMI) was resolved.
- The ARDIS iSCSI target was replaced with the Enterprise iSCSI target (v0.4.14).
- The Open iSCSI initiator (v2.0.754) package with kernel modules is included.
- The distribution now boots on more than just Intel CPUs.
- Userland tools (v3.6.19) and kernel FS support were included for ReiserFS and XFS.
- The PHP CLI is included in php-5.2.0 in root.gz initrd.

IOSN Live CD is an bootable CD that boots into a usable and fully featured Linux Desktop. In addition to standard FOSS productivity and multimedia applications, it is bundled with a User Guide to Using the Linux Desktop in print and multimedia formats as well as several IOSN Free/Open Source Software Primers.

Note: This is a beta release.

U-Boot is a Universal Bootloader project that provides firmware with full source code under GPL.
Many CPU architectures are supported: PowerPC(MPC5xx, MPC8xx, MPC82xx, MPC7xx, MPC74xx, 4xx), ARM(ARM7, ARM9, StrongARM, Xscale), MIPS(4Kc,5Kc), x86.
Enhancements:
Support for new CPUs:
- AMCC 440SP
- ARM 946E
- NetSilicon NS7520
Support for new boards:
- AMCC Luan 440SP
- AMD Pb1x00
- AP1000
- Armadillo HT1070
- Barco SCN
- Barco SVC
- Cogent csb637
- esd CMS700
- esd CPCI2DP
- esd cpci5200
- esd pf5200
- IFM o2dnt
- KwikByte KB920x
- MP2USB
- Sandburst Karef
- Sandburst Metrobox
- Silicon Turnkey eXpress XTc
- TQ Components TQM834x
- TQ Components TQM8541
- TQ Components TQM8555
- Vibren PXA255 IDP
- Support for GCC-4.x
- Support for multiple PHYs
- Support for passing Open Firmware flat trees to the Linux kernel
- Generic 4xx_enet.c driver for all 4xx CPUs
- Uniform support for all AMCC eval boards
- Xilinx Spartan3 family FPGA support
- Major cleanup ARM Integrator boards
- Changed all $(...) variable references into ${...}

SLAX Popcorn Edition is a pocket operating system which fits even 128MB USB Flash Drives! SLAX Popcorn Edition contains XFce desktop, Mozilla Firefox, Thunderbird, XMMS, AbiWord & Gaim.
This special modification of the SLAX live CD, Popcorn Edition, has been released after a week of beta testing.
Main features:
- XFce desktop
- Mozilla Firefox browser
- Mozilla Thunderbird mail client
- XMMS (in fact, its beep-media-player)
- Gaim (ICQ/AIM/etc client)
- MPlayer to play videos and to listen internet radio
- AbiWord text editor
SLAX is a small bootable CD containing the Linux operating system. It runs Linux directly from the CD (or USB) without installing.
The Live CD described here is based on the Slackware Linux distribution and is downloadable from this website as an ISO image.
The primary goal of SLAX is to provide a wide collection of useful software while keeping the cds image small enough to be written to a 185 MB CD-R(W) medium (small 8 cm CD). SLAX boots directly from the CD or USB devices and it provides a full featured Linux operating system.
All your available partitions and data storage devices (CD-ROM, USB storage devices, etc.) should be recognized at boot and should be mounted to /mnt/xx. As an example, "disc0part1" may be assigned to the first partition on your primary hard drive, "disc1part1" for your USB storage device, or "cdrom0" for your CD-ROM drive. SLAX will never write anything to the mounted devices. Mounting is safe and does not change the data.
After booting, you should be able to login as a "root", with the password "toor"; both without quotes, of course :)
When logged in, you have many options. At the shell prompt, you may start Midnight Commander (type "mc" to the console), play some music from your hard drive (type "play /mnt/path/file.mp3"), adjust your audio volume (type "alsamixer"), configure IP address (type "netconfig") or browse web pages with the text-based browser (type "lynx http://url").
To start the graphical environment included with SLAX, type "gui" (for graphical user interface). It will attempt to autoconfigure your graphics card, monitor, keyboard and mice, and if successful it will run an X session with KDE. Im pretty sure that you will know how to get around at this point. :-) Use "guisafe" instead of "gui" for safe-mode (VESA framebuffer) without autodetection.
In the unfortunate case your mouse doesnt work, try to move it for a few seconds to see if it will be autodetected. If it isnt, shut down Xwindow (press Ctrl+Alt+Backspace) and start it again. If this wont help then you are using something I have not included in the autoconfiguration process (COM2 mouse?). If you are comfortable with bash, or you atleast understand how to make your favorite mouse function under Linux, try to modify the symbolic link /dev/mouse manually.
If you dont like the autoconfigured screen resolution, refresh rate, or the K Desktop Environment, start "gui" with some additional options. Try for example "gui 800x600 60", where 800x600 is the desired screen resolution and 60 is the desired refresh rate. Fluxbox is one of the other window managers included and may be called with "guifast" or "gui fluxbox". In any event, type "gui --help" for more information.
All scripts and source code are available and can be used to build your own Live CD.
SLAX is available as an ISO image of the CD. It fits on small 8cm CD-R(W). Burn it with your favorite cd-writing software and then boot from the CD.
You might want to check your BIOS to assure its set to boot the CD prior the disc.
Enhancements:
- added KDE 3.5.4 with Slackware 11 fixes for media:/ URL in konqueror
- probeusb parameter now sleeps delay_use+1 seconds to wait for USB devices
- (this usually defaults to 6 seconds)
- fixed fuse libraries, which were missing in rc1 version
- added newest NTFS-3g beta version, NTFS writing now works, I hope

The CryptoBox is a Debian/Linux based live-cd. CryptoBox CD boots up, starting a secure fileserver.
Even non-technical users are able to store their data on its encrypted harddisk. There is no special knowledge about cryptography or servers required at all.
The CryptoBox is fully controllable via your web browser.
Version 0.2 is fully usable and runs stable. From now on were just adding features and translations (atm english, german, slovenian).
Enhancements:
- Support for more than one hard disk was added.
- Manual partitioning is allowed.
- LUKS is used for hard disk encryption.
- Plaintext partitions are supported.
- The time and date can be changed.
- Flexible feature management was implemented to enable and disable specific plugins.
- Prepared RAID partitions are used.

Ubuntu Bootloader Manager is a graphical user interface (GUI) for configuring GRUBs menu.lst.

This app is still very alpha, use at your own risk and make sure to make a backup of our grub config file (/boot/grub/menu.lst).

slakbootIBS (Slackware Interactive Boot Scripts) is an enhanced set of replacement boot scripts for the Slackware Linux distribution.

Slackware Interactive Boot Scripts includes a set of control and dispatch tools for configuring and booting with colorized interactive scripts. The new boot process allows the operator to select or skip start-up components in realtime.

It facilitates debugging of startup problems and allows operators to maintain a common baseline to support several local configurations or multiple servers with a single set of scripts.