When in doubt, hyphenate
bootloader can be boot-loader.
Google has bootloader, wikipedia has boot loader
Here is my take. And I may be as wrong as anyone else.
A bootloader is the name of the software,
which, when executing, performs the function of loading the boot code, hence
when executing, it is in the role of a boot loader.
So, a bootloader is a boot loader.
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From: Pete Travis <me@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: For participants of the Documentation Project <docs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, June 14, 2013 5:38 PM
Subject: Re: bootloader or boot loader
On Jun 14, 2013 3:37 PM, "Pete Travis" <me@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Jun 14, 2013 3:03 PM, "Eric H. Christensen" <sparks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> I just skimmed over the grub manual(1) for hints. There are eight instances of "bootloader" and forty instances of "boot loader" - so there's a trend but nothing absolute.
>
> Without looking for further precedent, I like "bootloader". It is a discrete concept, and IMO worthy of its own compound word. It doesn't work either way in a literal sense, and to the uninitiated "boot loader" could just as well be something at the Wolverine factory as something that loads [the booting of] an operating system. A "bootloader" is clearly not an incidental pairing of words and therefore provides better connotation for the reader.
>
> That said, I'm not going to argue if there's an established precedent.
>
> --PeteOops....
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