Syslinux
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The Syslinux Project is a discontinued suite of five different bootloaders for starting up Linux distributions on computers. It was primarily developed by H. Peter Anvin.
Key facts
- Software.screenshot
- SysLinux.png
- Software.caption
- Screenshot of SYSLINUX
- Software.developer
- H. Peter Anvin
- Software.latest release version
- 6.03
- Software.latest preview version
- 6.04-pre3
- Software.operating system
- Linux
- Software.genre
- Boot loader
- Software.license
- GPL-2.0-or-later
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
Syslinux Wiki
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Wikidata facts
- Official website
- wiki.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Syslinux_Project
- Image
- SysLinux.png
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- source code repository URL
- repo.or.cz/syslinux.git
- software version identifier
- 6.0.0
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Article
11 sectionsContents
- Components
- {{Anchor|ISOLINUX}}SYSLINUX and ISOLINUX
- PXELINUX
- EXTLINUX
- EFILINUX
- COMBOOT
- {{Anchor|HDT}}Hardware Detection Tool (HDT)
- See also
- References
- Sources
- External links
The Syslinux Project is a discontinued suite of five different bootloaders for starting up Linux distributions on computers. It was primarily developed by H. Peter Anvin.
==Components== The Syslinux Project consists of six different bootloaders: The eponymous SYSLINUX, used for booting from the FAT filesystem ISOLINUX, used for booting from the ISO 9660 file system PXELINUX, used for booting from a network server using the Preboot Execution Environment (PXE) system EXTLINUX, used for booting from Btrfs, ext2, ext3, ext4, FAT, NTFS, UFS/UFS2, and XFS filesystems MEMDISK, emulates a RAM disk for older operating systems like MS-DOS EFILINUX, used for booting from UEFI systems