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Footnotes

(1)

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

(2)

Only CRC32 data integrity check is supported (xz default is CRC64 so one should use –check=crc32 option). LZMA BCJ filters are supported.

(3)

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

(4)

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

(5)

El Torito is a specification for bootable CD using BIOS functions.

(6)

Currently a backslash-newline pair within a variable name is not handled properly, so use this feature with some care.

(7)

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


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