A boot image is a type of disk image that when on a boot device allows the associated computer to boot. A boot image usually includes an operating system...

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...

simple gzip, because the SILO boot loader transparently decompresses gzipped images. The filename of the bootable image is not important, but many popular...

CD (also live DVD, live disc, or live operating system) is a complete bootable computer installation including operating system which runs directly from...

Das U-Boot (subtitled "the Universal Boot Loader" and often shortened to U-Boot; see History for more about the name) is an open-source boot loader used...

(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)...

systems which can boot appropriate software images, with appropriate configuration parameters, both retrieved at boot time from one or more network servers...

restoring an image). Image restoration can be done using network-based image deployment. This method uses a PXE server to boot an operating system over...

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 is derived...

network boot images as well as a repository for the actual operating system images to be installed on the target computer. When multiple boot images are available...

distributions ship a single, generic Linux kernel image –one which the distribution's developers create specifically to boot on a wide variety of hardware.[citation...

multicast Apple Software Restore (ASR). Server-side NetBoot image can boot entire machines, although NetBoot is more commonly used for operating system and software...

Firmware Interface (UEFI) standard. It has several advantages over master boot record (MBR) partition tables, such as support for more than four primary...

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...

original. Some of these cartridges can also store a 3DS boot image; a 3DS can in turn be made to boot from the cartridge by way of an undocumented button...

standards-conforming extension of DHCP. It allows Macintosh computers to boot from bootable images on a network instead of local storage media such as CD, DVD, or hard...

Unix-like diskless workstations to obtain the network location of their boot image, in addition to the IP address assignment. Enterprises used it to roll...

parts, which have the .swm extension. WIM images can be made bootable and Windows boot loader supports booting Windows from a WIM file. Windows Setup DVD...

In computing, booting is the process of starting a computer as initiated via hardware such as a physical button on the computer or by a software command...

shared user-space libraries loaded as part of the boot image. It is possible to put an entire boot image into ROM, which is used for diskless embedded systems...

existing CD/DVD-ROMs to disc images and create bootable image files (file extension .bif). MagicISO can mount disc images with the addition of MagicISO...

support for accessing boot images over HTTP. The UEFI specification defines a protocol known as Secure Boot, which can secure the boot process by preventing...

functionality for automating the Linux boot process. The tool named dracut is used to create a Linux boot image (initramfs) by copying tools and files...

second stage boot loader in x86 platforms; or uses EBOOT as its boot loader in ARM platforms. On the startup process, NK.BIN boot image or NK.EXE kernel...

systems and various utilities. An ESP contains the boot loaders, boot managers, or kernel images of installed operating systems (which are typically...

conversion. Software distributed on bootable discs is often available for download in ISO image format; like any other ISO image, it may be written to an optical...

for example, a boot image that the organization has approved and which uses software it has license to. Many instances of such a boot image create a virtual...

Firmware Interface (UEFI). The boot loader automatically detected bootable images (including operating systems and other boot loaders), did not require a...

create a bootable operating system image from Apple's released source code for Darwin. Since the halt of OpenDarwin and the release of bootable images since...

A master boot record (MBR) is a type of boot sector in the first block of partitioned computer mass storage devices like fixed disks or removable drives...