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A boot loader is a program that is found by the system ["BIOS"] in the boot sector of your storage device (floppy or hard drive's MasterBootRecord), and which locates and starts your OperatingSystem for you. A boot loader is a program that is found by the system ["BIOS"] in the boot sector of your storage device (floppy or hard drive's MasterBootRecord), and which locates and starts your OperatingSystem  ( ["Linux"] )for you.

A boot loader is a program that is found by the system ["BIOS"] in the boot sector of your storage device (floppy or hard drive's MasterBootRecord), and which locates and starts your ?OperatingSystem ( ["Linux"] )for you.

Debian default boot loaders include ["LILO"] (old) and ["GRUB"] (new).

There is also something called ["XOSL"] and ["Syslinux"].

?DebFrBootLoader