systemd-boot is a free and open-source boot manager, previously known as gummiboot. gummiboot was developed by the Red Hat employees Kay Sievers and Harald...
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time of adoption of systemd on most Linux distributions, it was the only software suite that offered reliable parallelism during boot as well as centralized...
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directly by UEFI firmware via the EFI boot stub, but usually uses GRUB 2 or systemd-boot as a bootloader. If UEFI Secure Boot is supported, a "shim" or "Preloader"...
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Comparison of bootloaders (redirect from AiR-Boot)
(Master Boot Record) refers to whether or not the boot loader can be stored in the first sector of a mass storage device. The column VBR (Volume Boot Record)...
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EFI system partition (category Booting)
as GRUB 2 and lilo/elilo default to /boot/efi. Alternatively, systemd-boot prefers either /efi or /boot over /boot/efi due to potential complications with...
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Bootloader (redirect from Boot loader)
Software Foundation (FSF)". www.gnu.org. Retrieved 27 September 2021. "systemd-boot". www.freedesktop.org. Retrieved 27 September 2021. "Tint". coreboot...
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Readahead (redirect from Systemd-readahead)
systemd, readahead binary (as part of the boot sequence) was replaced by systemd-readahead. However, support for readahead was removed from systemd in...
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the following: A bootloader, for example GNU GRUB, LILO, SYSLINUX or systemd-boot. This is a program that loads the Linux kernel into the computer's main...
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GNU GRUB (redirect from Grand Unified Boot Loader)
both inherit from the abandoned boot manager rEFIt. Non-graphical alternatives: systemd-boot – Light, UEFI-only boot manager with text-based OS selector...
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"Release systemd v255 · systemd/systemd". GitHub. Retrieved December 11, 2023. "Add tool to display emergency log message full-sceen on boot failure....
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E3800 processors. An installed system is booted via the EFI boot loader or via systemd-boot. Minimum system requirements are SSE4 and CLMUL (carry-less...
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Devuan (category Linux distributions without systemd)
other init systems and avoid lock-in by systemd. Devuan offers sysvinit, runit or OpenRC as alternatives to systemd. With the release of Debian 8, some developers...
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Artix Linux (category Linux distributions without systemd)
not use systemd, instead opting to provide init and service management freedom. Artix offers OpenRC, runit, s6, and dinit in place of systemd. Artix Linux...
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Udev (redirect from Systemd-udevd)
that allows access to device information; it was incorporated into the systemd 183 software bundle. User space daemon udevd that manages the virtual /dev...
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GUID Partition Table (redirect from Extended Master Boot Record)
Discoverable Partitions Specification (DPS)". ["systemd-gpt-auto-generator(8)". "Home Directories". "The Boot Loader Specification". "[dm-crypt] LUKS GPT...
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traditional versions. These include launchd, the Service Management Facility, systemd, Runit and OpenRC. Research Unix init runs the initialization shell script...
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the Linux kernel. Amazon Linux 2 changed from System V init system to systemd boot. It was announced in June 2018, and is updated on a regular basis. Amazon...
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Alpine Linux (category Linux distributions without systemd)
OpenRC instead of the more commonly used glibc, GNU Core Utilities, and systemd. This makes Alpine one of few Linux distributions not to be based on the...
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Upstart was placed in maintenance mode, and other init daemons, such as systemd, were recommended in place of Upstart. Ubuntu moved away from Upstart with...
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limited to them — it is also processed by systemd via systemd-fstab-generator for automatic mounting during boot. The fstab file typically lists all available...
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Knoppix (category Linux distributions without systemd)
edition of Linux-Magazin or LinuxUser. Version 8.5 no longer includes Systemd, which was replaced by elogind. Spectre and Meltdown kernel vulnerabilities...
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feature-complete Linux init Monit runit Supervisor: A Python implementation s6: Low-level process and service supervision Systemd "Runit - benefits"....
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or systemd, the super-server daemon will perform those functions for the process, except for old-style daemons not converted to run under systemd and...
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Gentoo following the decision by some Linux distributions not to adopt systemd. OpenRC is the default init system or process supervisor for: Alpine Linux...
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SliTaz (category Linux distributions without systemd)
themselves. For SliTaz 5, some major changes seem to be the swapping of systemd by BusyBox's init and udev, hence avoiding safety risks, and more implementation...
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race conditions, and allowing D-Bus to be used during boot and shutdown (as needed by systemd). kdbus inclusion in the Linux kernel proved controversial...
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system to be unlocked using a touch screen. For systems running systemd, the systemd-homed component can be used to encrypt individual home directories...
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was first replaced by runlevels and then by systemd states on most major distributions. Although systemd is, as of 2016[update], used by default in most...
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MX Linux (category Linux distributions without systemd)
obscure. MX-15 moved to the new Debian Stable "Jessie" using systemd-shim, meaning that systemd is installed but the default init is SysVinit. The size limitation...
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SystemRescue (category Operating system distributions bootable from read-only media)
based on Arch Linux since version 6.0. Starting with version 6.0, it has systemd as its init system. For more recent versions, a 64-bit processor is required...
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