A fully Go userland with Linux bootloaders! u-root can create a one-binary root file system (initramfs) containing a busybox-like set of tools written in Go.

💽 Build Bespoke OS Images

ZFS Bootloader for root-on-ZFS systems with support for snapshots and native full disk encryption

Use YubiKey to unlock a LUKS partition

dracut the event driven initramfs infrastructure

Fast and secure initramfs generator

Use dropbear over wireguard.

dracut initramfs module to start dropbear sshd during boot to unlock the root filesystem with the (cryptsetup) LUKS passphrase remotely

Load root file system to ram during boot.

effortlessly boot, configure, update and monitor your raspberry pi ☁️

Provide SSH access to initramfs early user space on Fedora and other systems that use Dracut

mounts an overlay file system over root

Provisioning tool for systemd in initramfs (systemd-tool)

Tools to let a u-root instance boot signed live distro images over the web

Tiny initramfs written in POSIX shell

GaryOS is an entire GNU/Linux system in a single bootable file

dracut - the event driven initramfs infrastructure

📝 Kernel module that can be used as a replacement for syslog, logger or logwrapper

Archboot is a most advanced, modular Arch Linux boot/install image creation utility to generate bootable media for CD/USB/PXE, designed for installation or rescue operation.

A minimalistic initramfs generator, designed for FDE