Quoting Steve Litt (slitt@???):

> On Sat, 1 Oct 2016 02:03:59 -0700
> Rick Moen <rick@???> wrote:
>
>
> > Fortunately, there are multiple bootloaders, quite a number of them
> > even well-packaged, so _both_ people who insist on extremely complex
> > bootloaders _and_ people who like ones properly compliant with the
> > Unix philosophy can both simultaneously be happy.
>
> List of such bootloaders, please?

With a research grant, I'll be glad to expedite developing such a list.
;->

Meanwhile, for simple things I like lilo. For more complex ones,
syslinux/extlinux.