Importantly, GRUB 2 has now replaced the GRUB. It comes with several improvements, new features and bug fixes as enhancements of the original GRUB program. GNU GRUB is a popular and probably the most used multiboot Linux boot loader available, based on the original GRUB ( GRand Unified Bootlader) which was created by Eirch Stefan Broleyn. There are several boot loaders we can install together with Linux on our systems and in this article, we shall briefly talk about a handful of the best Linux boot loaders to work with.
Suggested Read: A Basic Guide to Linux Boot Process
Without a boot loader, your operating system can not be loaded into memory. What is a Boot Loader?Ī boot loader is a small program stored in the MBR or GUID partition table that helps to load an operating system into memory. The MBR contains two important sets of information, one is the boot loader and two, the partition table. When you turn on your machine, immediately after POST ( Power On Self Test) is completed successfully, the BIOS locates the configured bootable media, and reads some instructions from the master boot record ( MBR) or GUID partition table which is the first 512 bytes of the bootable media.
