Boot Sequence: Difference between revisions

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The most prominent one is [[GRUB]], a two-stage bootloader that not only provides a boot menu with chainloading capability, but initializes the early environment to a well-defined state (including [[Protected Mode]] and reading various interesting information from the BIOS), can load generic executables as kernel images (instead of requiring flat binaries like most other bootloaders), supports optional kernel modules, various file systems, and if <tt>./configure</tt>'d correctly, [[Diskless booting]].