Bootloader

A bootloader is a program that will fire up your kernel when you start the system. Depending on the architecture of the machine, several bootloaders are available:


 * GRUB (also known as GRUB Legacy): Gentoo's default bootloader on x86 and amd64
 * GRUB2: Reworked version of GRUB
 * syslinux: A collection of simple bootloaders for various purposes
 * EFI stub kernel: Using the (U)EFI firmware to function as bootloader