On Jun 17, 2013, at 5:21 AM, Leslie S Satenstein <lsatenstein@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > My feedback for bootloader. I scanned many websites and the concensus is bootloader is one word, a noun. > > The word boot is contracted from bootstrap, and at the time that word was used it was bootstrap loading. At least wikipedia thinks it's a "boot loader" rather than a "bootloader". Yet GRUB is an acronym that uses Bootloader. So I don't think it really matters that much, as long as usage within Fedora documentation is consistent. Adding to possible confusion is the idea of a boot manager vs a boot loader. e.g. grub is both a boot manager and a collection of boot loaders: one for linux, one for bsd, one for xnu, etc. GRUB, syslinux, extlinux, act mainly as boot managers from a user perspective, in the form of a menu with boot choices. Certainly in a UEFI world, these things are boot managers: grub, gummiboot, and rEFInd. The boot loader is EFI STUB which is built into the linux kernel. Chris Murphy -- docs mailing list docs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/docs
