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GRUB stands for GRand Unified Bootloader and is a [[bootloader]] and the reference implementation of the Multiboot Specification. GRUB can boot any Multiboot-compliant OS (e.g. Hurd, [http://grub.enbug.org/MultibootSystems among others]), however it can also boot some non-Multiboot-compliant OSes, e.g. Windows, via a chain-loading function, and some others via special support, e.g. Linux.
GRUB stands for GRand Unified Bootloader and is a [[bootloader]] and the reference implementation of the Multiboot Specification. GRUB can boot any Multiboot-compliant OS (e.g. Hurd, [http://grub.enbug.org/MultibootSystems among others]), however it can also boot some non-Multiboot-compliant OSes, e.g. Windows, via a chain-loading function, and some others via special support, e.g. Linux.


This article concentrates on the recently renamed to "GRUB legacy". GRUB 2 doesn't sound "released" enough at the time of writing.
This article concentrates on GRUB Legacy. [[GRUB 2]] has not been finalized at the time of writing.


==Features==
==Features==