petitboot software package provides ncurses version of petitboot, a kexec based bootloader, you can install in your Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) by running the commands given below on the terminal,
$ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install petitboot
petitboot is installed in your system.
Make ensure the petitboot package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep petitboot *
You will get with petitboot package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 14 04 lts trusty tahr |
| Section | Administration Utilities |
| Package | petitboot |
| Version | 13.05.29.14.00-g4dc604b-1 |
| Description | ncurses version of petitboot, a kexec based bootloader |
| Sub Section | Admin |