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petitboot vs SeaBios

A side-by-side look at petitboot and SeaBios. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

petitboot

petitboot

Os & Utilities

Petitboot is an open-source network bootloader and discovery tool for PowerPC systems. It supports netbooting over HTTP, FTP and TFTP and can chainload GRUB2, Das U-Boot and more. Useful for network booting PowerPC servers, embedded systems and appliances.

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SeaBios

SeaBios

System & Hardware

SeaBIOS is an open source implementation of a 16-bit x86 BIOS. It provides low-level firmware needed to boot operating systems like Linux, Windows, BSD and others on x86 systems. SeaBIOS is lightweight, compatible and easy to configure.

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