l operating system to be run on
the machine.  The boot loader may itself consist of several stages, but
that is an implementation detail not relevant to this standard.  Only the
"final" stage of the boot loader - the stage that eventually transfers
control to the OS - needs to follow the rules specified in this document
in order to be "MultiBoot compliant"; earlier boot loader stages can be
designed in whatever way is most convenient.<P>

The term "OS image" is used to refer to the initial binary image that