Here’s 8 useful boot utility tools. They are all free and open source software.
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Tag: boot
rEFInd – EFI boot manager
rEFInd is a boot manager, meaning that it presents a menu of options to the user when the computer first starts up.
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Plymouth – boot splash and boot logger
Plymouth provides a splash screen and progress updates during early boot.
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bootchart2 – merge of bootchart-collector and pybootchartgui
bootchart2 is a merge of bootchart-collector and pybootchartgui.
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OProfile – statistical profiler
OProfile is a low-overhead, transparent system-wide profiler for Linux, capable of instruction-grain profiling of all processes.
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Grub Customizer – configure the GRUB2/BURG settings and menu entries
Grub Customizer is a graphical interface to alter the Grub 2 settings. It focuses on the individual list order without losing grub’s dynamical behavior.
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e4rat – Ext4 – Reducing Access Times
e4rat (“Ext4 – Reducing Access Times”) is a toolset to accelerate the boot process as well as application startups.
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UNetbootin – create bootable Live USB drives
UNetbootin (Universal Netbook Installer) creates live USB drives that can install Linux or BSD distributions to a partition or USB drive without a CD.
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Excellent System Utilities: Ventoy – create bootable USB drive for ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI files
Ventoy is an open source tool to create bootable USB drive for ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI files.
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