There are a few pathological cases where loading a very badly organized ELF kernel might take longer, but in practice this never happen.
There is already a port to the NEC PC-98xx series. See http://www.kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~kmc/proj/linux98/arch/i386/boot/grub98/, for more information.
The LInux LOader, a boot loader that everybody uses, but nobody likes.
However, this behavior will be changed in the future version, in a user-invisible way.
The latter feature has not been implemented yet.
They're loaded the same way, so we will refer to the Stage 1.5 as a Stage 2 from now on.
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