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chain-load is the mechanism for loading unsupported operating systems by loading another boot loader. It is typically used for loading DOS or Windows.

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There are a few pathological cases where loading a very badly organized ELF kernel might take longer, but in practice this never happen.

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The LInux LOader, a boot loader that everybody uses, but nobody likes.

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Note that GRUB's root device doesn't necessarily mean your OS's root partition; if you need to specify a root partition for your OS, add the argument into the command kernel.

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This is not necessary for most of the modern operating systems.

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RARP is deprecated, since it cannot serve much information

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However, this behavior will be changed in the future version, in a user-invisible way.

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The latter feature has not been implemented yet.

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They're loaded the same way, so we will refer to the Stage 1.5 as a Stage 2 from now on.

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I can't imagine why you want to do such a thing, though