GRUB is an Acronym for "GRand Unified Boot-loader". Currently one of the most sophisticated [boot loader]
?s/[boot manager]
? around. While normal [boot loaders]
? keep a table of blocks
? on the
hard disk, GRUB can browse the file system. At the moment, it supports these filesystems:
Apart from support for many different file systems, it has many other features. You can find a description of these at http://www.gnu.org/software/grub|http://www.gnu.org/software/grub