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GNU GRUB (short for GNU GRand Unified Bootloader, commonly referred to as GRUB) is a boot loader package from the GNU Project.GRUB is the reference implementation of the Free Software Foundation's Multiboot Specification, which provides a user the choice to boot one of multiple operating systems installed on a computer or select a specific kernel configuration available on a particular ...
TrueOS (formerly PC-BSD or PCBSD) is a discontinued [3] Unix-like, server-oriented operating system built upon the most recent releases of FreeBSD-CURRENT. [4]Up to 2018 it aimed to be easy to install by using a graphical installation program, and easy and ready-to-use immediately by providing KDE SC, Lumina, LXDE, MATE, or Xfce [5] as the desktop environment.
EasyBCD has a number of bootloader-related features that can be used to repair and configure the bootloader. From the "Manage Bootloader" section of EasyBCD, it is possible to switch between the BOOTMGR bootloader (used since Windows Vista) and the NTLDR bootloader (used by legacy versions of Windows, from Windows NT to Windows XP) in the MBR from within Windows by simply clicking a button.
Squashfs is a compressed read-only file system for Linux.Squashfs compresses files, inodes and directories, and supports block sizes from 4 KiB up to 1 MiB for greater compression.
It may also refer to versions of Seattle Computer Product's 86-DOS (the predecessor to MS-DOS and PC DOS): 86-DOS 1.00, SCP OEM released version on 28 April 1981, licensed to OEMs including Microsoft; 86-DOS 1.01, SCP internal version in May 1981; 86-DOS 1.10, SCP OEM released version in July 1981, sold to Microsoft and renamed to MS-DOS
IBM introduced the first version of fdisk (officially dubbed "Fixed Disk Setup Program") in March 1983, with the release of the IBM PC/XT computer (the first PC to store data on a hard disk) and the IBM PC DOS 2.0 operating system. fdisk version 1.0 can create one FAT12 partition, delete it, change the active partition, or display partition data. fdisk writes the master boot record, which ...
Windows Installer (msiexec.exe, previously known as Microsoft Installer, [3] codename Darwin) [4] [5] is a software component and application programming interface (API) of Microsoft Windows used for the installation, maintenance, and removal of software.