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Boot Loader Components

 
  • Boot Loader

    • 1st Stage - small, resides in MBR or boot sector
    • 2nd Stage - loaded from boot partition
  • Minimum specifications for Linux:

    • Label, kernel location, OS root filesystem and location of the initial ramdisk (initrd)
  • Minimum specification for other OS:

    • boot device, label