Bootloader
Historical note follows.
My IT experience goes back to the late 1950's. Then it was called IPL. Initial Program Loader. We IPL'd the system. But if you came from Dec, you booted the system. I prefered the IPL loader that did the IPL.
Historical note follows.
My IT experience goes back to the late 1950's. Then it was called IPL. Initial Program Loader. We IPL'd the system. But if you came from Dec, you booted the system. I prefered the IPL loader that did the IPL.
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Leslie
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From: Chris Murphy <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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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
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