Linux Boot Loaders
The boot loader program helps bridge the gap between the system firmware and the full Linux operating system kernel. In Linux there are several choices of boot loaders to use. However, the most popular ones that you’ll run across are the following:
In the original versions of Linux the LILO boot loader was the only boot loader program available. It was extremely limited in what it could do, but it accomplished its purpose—loading the Linux kernel from the BIOS startup. LILO became the default boot loader used by Linux distributions in the 1990s. Unfortunately, LILO doesn’t work with GPT disks, so it has limited use on modern systems and is quickly fading ...
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