Dual-booting/triple-booting FreeBSD under UEFI

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sun, 20 Sep 2020 16:28:33 +0200, Polytropon wrote:
>On Sun, 20 Sep 2020 03:53:10 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>> A business technology news website spreading inaccurate news isn't
>> required to get informed about known vulnerabilities.  
>
>If they aren't even able to get (or interested in getting) the
>terminology correct... if I remember correctly, what GRUB does
>is called a "boot manager" (thing that usually interactively
>selects from different operating systems to boot, or configures
>the boot of one operating system, by setting boot parameters or
>kernel options). GRUB does this even in Linux-only installations.
>A boot loader can be a standard MBR, without any interactivity,
>that loads an operating system. This is the typical situation
>on systems running FreeBSD exclusively.
>
>Or is there a different definition or consensus of the words?

IMO it's correct to call grub a "boot loader", too.

"Boot loader

A boot loader is a piece of software started by the firmware (BIOS or
UEFI). [snip] A separate boot loader or boot manager can still be used
for the purpose of editing kernel parameters before booting." -
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_boot_process#Boot_loader