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Speaking of redundant bootloader features, where is the plug-and-play universal Linux bootloader distro? There should be a Linux distro dedicated for booting. There's LinuxBoot, but its focus is firmware customization, not easy net/multibooting. A "bootloader distro" would ship you a initramfs (or a Unified Kernel Image) as your second-stage bootloader, with its own GRUB-like boot menu and iPXE-like script engine. It would replace nearly all bootloader drivers, and would enable very complicated booting setups, such as booting via Amazon S3 over Wi-Fi.
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