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You see that with displaying a menu in some intelligible way and accepting keystrokes, such a multi-option bootloader can get quite complex rather quickly. We didn't even touch the subject of booting from extended partitions, which would require sequentially reading and parsing multiple extended partition tables before printing the menu.
 
Taken to the extreme, bootmanagers like that can become as complex as a simple OS, [[GRUB]] being a good example: It offers reading from various filesystems, booting [[Multiboot]] kernels, chainloading, loading initrd [[Ramdisk|ramdisksinitrd]] ramdisks etc. etc.
 
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