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What does GRUB stand for?
GNU GRand Unified Bootloader
What may truly be the greatest tool for booting Linux and practically any other OS?
GRUB
What tiny, function-specific operating system can boot Linux and practically any other OS?
GRUB
Where do you install GRUB onto a system's first hard disk if you want to do that?
The master boot record (MBR)
What shell does GRUB imitate with similar command history and completion features?
Bash
What command at the Linux command prompt brings up an emulator of GRUB's command shell environment?
grub
What is the thing that if you cream, you should turn to your GRUB boot floppy?
Your master boot record (MBR)
[...] is in its element with the multiboot, multidisk systems typical of Linux and open-source adventurers who may simultaneously test or track several Linux distributions, the BSDs, GNU/Hurd, BeOS and perhaps that vestigial partition for Bill.
GRUB is in its element with the multiboot, multidisk systems typical of Linux and open-source adventurers who may simultaneously test or track several Linux distributions, the BSDs, GNU/Hurd, BeOS and perhaps that vestigial partition for Bill.
What is "truly the greatest loader for booting Linux and practically any other OS?"
GNU GRUB
What program, independent of any OS, can be thought of as a tiny, function-specific OS with the purpose of recognizing filesystems and booting images, providing menu-driven and command-line interfaces to do so?
GNU GRUB
What is the GNU GRand Unified Bootloader?
GNU GRUB
What is "in its element with the multiboot, multidisk systems typical of Linux and open-source adventurers who may simultaneously test or track several Linux distributions, the BSDs, GNU/Hurd, BeOS and perhaps that vestigial partition for Mr. Bill?"
GNU GRUB
What can you build and work with for learning and it can double as a tool to rescue systems with trashed boot loaders?
A GRUB boot floppy