Project Summary
Petitboot is a platform independent bootloader based on the Linux kexec warm reboot mechanism. Petitboot supports loading kernel and initrd image files from any mountable Linux device, plus can load image files from the network using TFTP, NFS, HTTP, HTTPS, and SCP. Petitboot can boot any operating system supported by kexec.
Petitboot includes graphical and command line user interface programs. The command line programs can be used to boot remotely via telnet or ssh sessions. Multiple user interface programs can run simultaneously.
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took an estimated 9 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in April, 2007
ending with its most recent commit 5 months ago
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