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== Booting multiple OSes ==
The easiest way to boot another OS is a mechanism called chainloading. Windows stores something akin to a second-stage bootloader in the boot sector of the partition it was installed in. When installing Linux, writing e.g. LILO or GRUB to the partition boot sector instead of the MBR is also an option. Now, the thing your MBR bootsector can do is to relocate itself (copying from
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.
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