What is the difference between dual boot and multiboot?
Dual boot is the simultaneous presence of two bootable operating systems living and/or starting up from the same partition. You can install DOS on C:, then install an older OS/2 version or a version of Windows® or a Linux loader on C:, and switch between the two using the boot command or a startup menu. Modern OS/2 versions have discontinued support for dual boot. Multiboot is the simultaneous presence ot multiple bootable partitions in the same system, such as DOS on one partition, OS/2 on another partition, and Linux on yet another partition. These bootable partitions all can reside on the same physical disk, or on two or more physical disks. In order to choose which operating system to boot, a boot manager is usually necessary. The term “dual boot” is often used when multiboot is actually meant. Dual means two exactly, while multi means more than one. So, the two terms can easily be confused when the actual count is two. AFAIK, IBM first made the distinction back before Torvalds’ ke
