Bootloader (redirect from Boot loader)
bootloader, also spelled as boot loader or called bootstrap loader, is a computer program that is responsible for booting a computer. If it also provides...
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program it loads is called a second-stage boot loader. On many embedded CPUs, the CPU built-in boot ROM, sometimes called the zero-stage boot loader, can find...
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UEFI (redirect from Windows 8 secure boot)
system loader (or kernel) to be size-matched; that is, a 64-bit UEFI firmware implementation can load only a 64-bit operating system (OS) boot loader or kernel...
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Comparison of bootloaders (redirect from Darwin Boot Loader)
(Master Boot Record) refers to whether or not the boot loader can be stored in the first sector of a mass storage device. The column VBR (Volume Boot Record)...
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conjunction with each partition's volume boot record (VBR). This MBR code is usually referred to as a boot loader. The organization of the partition table...
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NTLDR (redirect from Windows NT Flex Boot Loader)
NTLDR (abbreviation of NT loader) is the boot loader for all releases of Windows NT operating system from 1993 with the release of Windows NT 3.1 up until...
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GNU GRUB (redirect from Grand Unified Boot Loader)
code of a boot loader. Although such a small space can be sufficient for very simple boot loaders, it is not big enough to contain a boot loader supporting...
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different partitions. The boot loader in or loaded by the MBR displays a menu of logical drives and loads the selected boot loader from the PBR of that drive...
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Das U-Boot (subtitled "the Universal Boot Loader" and often shortened to U-Boot; see History for more about the name) is an open-source boot loader used...
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LILO (bootloader) (redirect from Palo (boot loader))
LILO (Linux Loader) is a boot loader for Linux and was the default boot loader for most Linux distributions. Unlike loadlin, it allowed booting Linux without...
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