bootix ::: Boot Image
 

Boot Image

A boot image is a file that can be downloaded from a network boot server in order to boot a computer. For this, the booting computer needs to be equipped with a network boot code, such as the TCP/IP BOOT-PROM or PXE PROM code.

Boot images can provide multiple different tasks: turn a diskless machine into a terminal client, implement a "helper OS" platform for the unattended installation of an operating systeme, or provide maintenance and emergency services (BIOS update, offline virus scan, system backup and recovery, etc.).

A boot image can also contain executable code that acts as a boot loader, i.e. an intermediary program (a so-called "boot loader") that augments the network boot code in order to download the "real" boot image. This is what a PXE network boot code needs to do.

There are multiple types of boot images: DOS, Windows 98, Linux, Windows PE, etc. Some types are monolithic, i.e. consist of a single file. Other images consist of multiple files, and must rely on a boot loader that is capable of loading all required files into the computer's memory before passing execution control to the OS loader in the image.

The bootix BootManage Administrator is the bootix boot management solution that supports boot images of various different types.

 


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