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  2. Comparison of bootloaders - Wikipedia

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    Note: The column MBR (Master Boot Record) refers to whether or not the boot loader can be stored in the first sector of a mass storage device. The column VBR (Volume Boot Record) refers to the ability of the boot loader to be stored in the first sector of any partition on a mass storage device.

  3. Booting process of Linux - Wikipedia

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    The first stage bootloader, which is a part of the MBR, is a 512-byte image containing the vendor-specific program code and a partition table. [6] As mentioned earlier in the introduction part, the first stage bootloader will find and load the second stage bootloader. [6] It does this by searching in the partition table for an active partition. [6]

  4. LILO (bootloader) - Wikipedia

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    LILO (Linux Loader) is a boot loader for Linux and was the default boot loader for most Linux distributions. Unlike loadlin , it allowed booting Linux without having DOS on the computer. [ 3 ] As of 2009, most distributions had switched to GRUB as the default boot loader. [ 4 ]

  5. Das U-Boot - Wikipedia

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    The importance of U-Boot in embedded Linux systems is quite succinctly stated in the book Building Embedded Linux Systems, by Karim Yaghmour, whose text about U-Boot begins, "Though there are quite a few other bootloaders, 'Das U-Boot', the universal bootloader, is arguably the richest, most flexible, and most actively developed open source ...

  6. GNU GRUB - Wikipedia

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    GNU GRUB (short for GNU GRand Unified Bootloader, commonly referred to as GRUB) is a boot loader package from the GNU Project.GRUB is the reference implementation of the Free Software Foundation's Multiboot Specification, which provides a user the choice to boot one of multiple operating systems installed on a computer or select a specific kernel configuration available on a particular ...

  7. Bootloader - Wikipedia

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    In x86 computers, a first-stage bootloader is a compact 512-byte program that resides in the master boot record (MBR) and executes when a computer starts. Running in 16-bit real mode at address 0x7C00, it performs minimal hardware initialization, sets up a basic execution environment, and locates the second-stage bootloader.

  8. loadlin - Wikipedia

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    loadlin is a Linux boot loader that runs under 16-bit real-mode DOS (including the MS-DOS mode of Windows 95, Windows 98 and Windows Me startup disk). It allows the Linux system to load and replace the running DOS without altering existing DOS system files. loadlin and the Linux kernel are both files on a

  9. SILO (bootloader) - Wikipedia

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    The SPARC Improved bootLOader (SILO) is the bootloader used by the SPARC port of the Linux operating system; [1] [2] it can also be used for Solaris as a replacement for the standard Solaris boot loader.