What is the first software program that runs when a computer starts?

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What originated in 1995 when Erich Boleyn was trying to boot the GNU Hurd with the University of Utah's Mach 4 microkernel?

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What is the University of Utah's Mach 4 microkernel now known as?

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What did Erich and Brian Ford design because they were determined not to add to the large number of mutually-incompatible PC boot methods?

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What is a rewrite of GRUB that shares many characteristics with the previous version, now known as GRUB Legacy?

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"GRUB is basically a disk-based boot loader but also has network support." What protocol can be used to load OS images from a network?

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What did Gordon Matzigkeit say is the most important software of all?

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What is the more desirable distinct boot method of GRUB?

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What is a sequence of characters that GRUB considers to be a single unit?

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What is used in GRUB to remove the special meaning of certain characters or words?

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What is the distinct boot method of GRUB for when GRUB does not support the operating system natively?

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When nobody understood what Gordon Matzigkeit was talking about, what word did he end up using as a pseudonym for GRUB?

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What does GRUB use an advanced BIOS query technique in order to look for on a PC-compatible machine (and find all that has been installed)?

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What spec is the primary requirement for GRUB to be compliant with?

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What did Erich and Brian Ford design because they were determined not to add to the large number of mutually-incompatible PC boot methods?

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What boot loader by the end of 2009 was to the point where multiple major distributions were installing it by default?

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What boot loader did Enrich realize he was better off writing his own?

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What is responsible for loading and transferring control to an operating system kernel software (such as Linux or GNU Mach)?

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What understands filesystems and kernel executable formats so you can load an arbitrary operating system the way you like, without recording the physical position of your kernel on the disk?

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What gets control and then initializes the rest of the operating system (e.g. a GNU system)?

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What is the mechanism for loading unsupported operating systems by loading another boot loader (like DOS or Windows)?

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