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: completely reworked version of GRUB
 * LILO: previously standard Linux bootloader
 * Syslinux: a collection of simple bootloaders for various purposes, including the pxelinux for network (diskless) boot