The SYSLINUX Project covers a suite of lightweight [:BootLoader:BootLoaders], for starting up computers operating system.
Overview
- the original SYSLINUX, used for booting from File Allocation Table -FAT - filesystems (usually floppy discs);
- ISOLINUX, used for booting from ["CD-ROM"] ISO 9660 filesystems;
- PXELINUX, used for booting from a network server using the Pre-eXecution Environment (PXE) system;
- EXTLINUX, used to boot from Linux ext2/ext3 filesystems;
- MEMDISK, used to boot older operating systems like MS-DOS from these media;
See also :
["BootLoader"]
Wikipedia's syslinux page.