Boot Environments

A boot environment is the hosting system of a boot loader.

Boot processes may be interactive, or automatic, or static, set up in many ways.

The following table classifies various approaches with example implementations.

	serial	network	graphics
Automatic	xmodem	TFTP, HTTP, PXE	splash screen
Interactive	shell, ReGIS	`cpu`, web	framebuffer, text menu

A boot environment may be configurable. Configuration may be changed at runtime, out of band, or at build time depending on the use case.

The following is a list of examples.