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Linux provides LILO, the Linux Loader, which can function as either a master boot program or a secondary boot program. lilo is installed with a command like this one:

# lilo -C /etc/lilo.conf

The -C option specifies the location of LILO's configuration file. (The location in the preceding command is, in fact, the default location, and so the -C clause is redundant.)

The lilo.conf file specifies LILO's behavior for certain aspects of the boot process and also defines the kernels and operating systems that it can boot.