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#### Footnotes

##### (1)

chain-load is the mechanism for loading unsupported operating systems by loading another boot loader. It is typically used for loading DOS or Windows.

##### (2)

The NetBSD/i386 kernel is Multiboot-compliant, but lacks support for Multiboot modules.

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Only CRC32 data integrity check is supported (xz default is CRC64 so one should use –check=crc32 option). LZMA BCJ filters are supported.

##### (4)

There are a few pathological cases where loading a very badly organized ELF kernel might take longer, but in practice this never happen.

##### (5)

The LInux LOader, a boot loader that everybody uses, but nobody likes.

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El Torito is a specification for bootable CD using BIOS functions.

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Currently a backslash-newline pair within a variable name is not handled properly, so use this feature with some care.

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However, this behavior will be changed in the future version, in a user-invisible way.

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