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Originally written: 3/19/2012; last Web page update: -1/3/2014, referencing rEFInd 0.7.7

+3/9/2014, referencing rEFInd 0.7.8

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Using a Traditional Linux Boot Loader

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I consider ELILO, GRUB Legacy, and GRUB 2 to be traditional Linux boot loaders. These programs all exist independent of the Linux kernel, but they can load a kernel and hand off control to it. All three programs have their own configuration files that reside in the same directory as the boot loader itself (or optionally elsewhere, in the case of GRUB 2).

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I consider ELILO, GRUB Legacy, GRUB 2, and SYSLINUX to be traditional Linux boot loaders. These programs all exist independent of the Linux kernel, but they can load a kernel and hand off control to it. All four programs have their own configuration files that reside in the same directory as the boot loader itself (or optionally elsewhere, in the case of GRUB 2).

Ordinarily, rEFInd will detect these traditional boot loaders and provide main menu entries for them. If the boot loader exists in a directory with a name that matches a Linux distribution's icon filename, you'll automatically get a distribution-specific icon to refer to the boot loader.