A boot loader is a program started by the BIOS ROM after POST, which loads the Linux kernel into memory from a hard disk partition.
The most common place for the boot loader to reside is on the Master Boot Record (MBR); however, you can also place it on the first hard disk sector of the / or /boot filesystem partition if you want to use a boot loader from another operating system to load Linux. If the / or /boot partition starts after the 1024th cylinder of the hard disk (after the first 8 GB), you must pass a LBA32 (Large Block Addressing 23bit) to kernel. The System BIOS does not advertise this information to the boot loader.
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