What is the proper order of system initialization stages on most x86-based systems?

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The system starts with BIOS, then moves to GRUB, and then starts first user process, init.

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This is the initial ram filesystem, which contains essential drivers for hardware and filesystems.

This is the compressed Linux kernel.

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One can either have different options in the menu, or add one at run time

One can have a multiple boot system, with multiple versions of Linux, Microsoft Windows, etc

One can change many parameters that the system starts with

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SysVinit goes back many years and systemd is the most recent