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BIOS Boot Specification
Overview
Original usage of Option ROMs for booting through expansion cards
UEFI Option ROMs
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Overview
- PC platform IBM PC compatible
- IBM PC IBM Personal Computer
- Firmware
- ROM Read-only memory
- Expansion card
- BIOS
- Driver Device driver
- API
- Power-on self-test
- Memory address
- ISA Industry Standard Architecture
- Plug and Play
- PCM audio Pulse-code modulation
- RAM Random-access memory
- Video BIOS
- INT 10h
- Graphics card
- Jump instruction Branch (computer science)
- Hexadecimal
Original usage of Option ROMs for booting through expansion cards
- Disk controller
- Adaptec
- Interrupt service routine Interrupt handler
BIOS Boot Specification
- Compaq
- Intel
- Phoenix Technologies
- ASCII
- PCI configuration space
- NVRAM Nonvolatile BIOS memory
- Data structure
- RIP Program counter
- PMIO
- MMIO
- MBR Master boot record
- Floppy disk
- SCSI
- INT 13h
- AHCI
- Network boot Network booting
- Cassette BASIC
- Operating systems Operating system
- VESA BIOS Extensions
- UEFI Graphics Output Protocol
- Hercules Graphics Card
- Super VGAs Super VGA
UEFI Option ROMs
- Unified Extensible Firmware Interface UEFI
- Legacy x86 Legacy x86?action=edit&redlink=1
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Option ROM
Top relations
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Important terminology
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Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples
Extracted RDF-like relationships with confidence and source. The table includes structured facts and lower-confidence contextual relations.| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Option ROM | is a | video BIOS which gets loaded very early on in the boot process and hooks INT 10h so that output from the power-on self-test | 0.90 | text |
| Option ROM | is a | last one to be initialized and so the last one to hook any interrupts and the first one in those interrupt service routine | 0.90 | text |
| Option ROM | is a | network boot ROM | 0.90 | text |
| a hard disk controller or a network adapter card | instance of | an add-on device | 0.80 | text |
| Option ROM | related to BIOS Boot Specification | The BIOS Boot Specification | 0.60 | section |
| Option ROM | related to BIOS Boot Specification | BBS | 0.60 | section |
| Option ROM | related to BIOS Boot Specification | Compaq | 0.60 | section |
| Option ROM | related to BIOS Boot Specification | Intel | 0.60 | section |
| Option ROM | related to BIOS Boot Specification | Phoenix Technologies | 0.60 | section |
| Option ROM | related to BIOS Boot Specification | Plug | 0.60 | section |
| Option ROM | related to BIOS Boot Specification | Play | 0.60 | section |
| Option ROM | related to BIOS Boot Specification | PnP | 0.60 | section |
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