coreboot (formerly known as LinuxBIOS) is a Free Software project aimed at replacing the proprietary BIOS (firmware) you can find in most of today’s computers. It performs just a little bit of hardware initialization and then executes a so-called payload, for example a Linux kernel, FILO, GRUB2, OpenBIOS, Open Firmware, SmartFirmware, GNUFI (UEFI), Etherboot, ADLO (for booting Windows, FreeBSD, or OpenBSD), Plan 9, or memtest86. www.coreboot.org
Fully Automatic Installation – FAI
FAI it’s a scalable method for installing and updating all your computers unattended with little effort involved. It’s a centralized management system for your Linux deployment. www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/