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Booting

In computing, booting is the process of starting a computer as initiated via hardware such as a physical button on the computer or by a software command, first described in the 1950s as the "bootstrap technique." After it is switched on, a computer's central processing unit (CPU) has no software in its main memory, so some process must load software into…

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Modern boot loaders

Non-volatile memoryRandom-access memoryNOR flashExecute in placeHard disk drive
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IBM-compatible personal computers (PC)

GPTOptical disc driveEl ToritoUSBMass storage
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Overview

ComputingComputerHardwareSoftwareCentral processing unit
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SoCs, embedded systems, microcontrollers, and FPGAs

TIOMAPDigital signal processorsUARTSPI
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Security

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Booting

Nodes266
Edges265
Triples73
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.007519
Components1

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Booting

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related to Second-stage boot loaders · 20
Booting → BIOS, BOOTMGR, GNU GRUB, GRUB, List, Many, NTLDR, Open Firmware, OS, PC Booter, Second-stage, Some, Syslinux, The, These, UEFI, Usually, Windows, Windows NT/2000/XP's NTLDR, Windows's BOOTMGR
related to Boot devices · 19
Booting → BIOS, BIOS-bootable, DVD, El Torito, GPT, IBM-compatible PCs, If, LS-120, Master Boot Record, MBR, Older, PC's UEFI, PXE, The, Typically, UEFI, UEFI/BIOS, USB, Zip
related to Network booting · 11
Booting → After, As, In, Most, No, Preboot Execution Environment, PXE, ROM, ROM-based, TFTP, Trivial File Transfer Protocol
related to Security · 6
Booting → Matthew Garrett, Modern, Some, The, Traditionally, Various
see also · 2
Booting → Bootstrapping, ComputingMulti-bootingBoot
is a · 1
Booting → process of starting a computer as initiated via hardware such as a physical button on the computer or by a software command
related to Bootloop · 1
Booting → When

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boot system memory load program computer loader operating rom systems device also ibm may firmware hardware used process first bios

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Bootingis aprocess of starting a computer as initiated via hardware such as a physical button on the computer or by a software command0.90text
a physical button on the computer or by a software commandinstance ofbooting is the process of starting a computer as initiated via hardware0.80text
first described in the 1950s as theinstance ofbooting is the process of starting a computer as initiated via hardware0.80text
the start of the sector.Boot loaders may face peculiar constraintsinstance oftypically starting at a fixed entry point0.80text
especially in sizeinstance oftypically starting at a fixed entry point0.80text
the BIOSinstance ofbut may instead use generic storage access methods provided by system firmware0.80text
UEFI or Open Firmwareinstance ofbut may instead use generic storage access methods provided by system firmware0.80text
though typically with restricted hardware functionalityinstance ofbut may instead use generic storage access methods provided by system firmware0.80text
lower performance.Many boot loadersinstance ofbut may instead use generic storage access methods provided by system firmware0.80text
the Trivial File Transfer Protocolinstance ofand certain parts of it are transferred to the client using a simple protocol0.80text
Internet accessinstance ofthe BIOS setup is typically entered by pressing F2 or DEL keys during the POST.Several devices are available that enable the user to quick-boot into what is usually a variant of…0.80text
main memoryinstance ofto check and initialize required devices0.80text

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