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 [long mode]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_mode
 [memory segmentation]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86_memory_segmentation
 
-Writing a bootloader is a bit cumbersome as it requires assembly language and a lot of non insightful steps like “write this magic value to this processor register”. Therefore we don't cover bootloader creation in this post and instead provide a tool named [bootimage] that automatically appends a bootloader to your kernel.
+Writing a bootloader is a bit cumbersome as it requires assembly language and a lot of non insightful steps like “write this magic value to this processor register”. Therefore we don't cover bootloader creation in this post and instead provide a tool named [bootimage] that automatically prepends a bootloader to your kernel.
 
 [bootimage]: https://github.com/rust-osdev/bootimage