ree OS's that this standard is
being primarily designed for are Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, Mach, and VSTa.
It is hoped that other emerging free OS's will adopt it from the start, and
thus immediately be able to take advantage of existing boot loaders.  It
would be nice if commercial operating system vendors eventually adopted
this standard as well, but that's probably a pipe dream.<P>

<H3>Boot sources</H3>

It should be possible to write compliant boot loaders that
load the OS image from a variety of sources,