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    Another reason for multi-booting can be to investigate or test a new operating system without switching completely. Multi-booting is also useful in situations...
    14 KB (1,859 words) - 17:46, 27 July 2024
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    power is not cut. On some systems, a soft boot may optionally clear RAM to zero. Both hard and soft booting can be initiated by hardware such as a button...
    100 KB (11,274 words) - 08:53, 9 November 2024
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    UEFI (redirect from Windows 8 secure boot)
    GRUB for booting (e.g. SUSE Linux), the same holds true for OpenBSD. For booting from iSCSI iPXE can be used as a UEFI application loaded by U-Boot. Intel's...
    102 KB (10,338 words) - 14:25, 7 November 2024
  • not use for booting. 80. Active partition. Goodell, Dan. "Fixing Windows 2000/XP Drive Letters". Understanding MultiBooting and Booting Windows from...
    3 KB (338 words) - 10:31, 3 January 2022
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    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...
    29 KB (3,007 words) - 17:59, 15 November 2024
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    own configuration and deploy a menu of booting options. The user selects a booting option and an OS dependent Boot Loader is downloaded and run in order...
    19 KB (2,704 words) - 22:51, 18 November 2024
  • 8-bit computers, almost all software is self-booting. On the IBM PC, the distinction is between a self-booting program and one which is started by the user...
    12 KB (1,261 words) - 02:01, 27 September 2024
  • The Linux booting process involves multiple stages and is in many ways similar to the BSD and other Unix-style boot processes, from which it derives....
    24 KB (3,074 words) - 18:59, 9 November 2024
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    Boötes (/boʊˈoʊtiːz/ boh-OH-teez) is a constellation in the northern sky, located between 0° and +60° declination, and 13 and 16 hours of right ascension...
    73 KB (8,387 words) - 08:05, 25 October 2024
  • In Linux, and other Unix-like operating systems, the /boot/ directory holds files used in booting the operating system. The usage is standardized in the...
    4 KB (433 words) - 05:21, 26 March 2024
  • Reboot (redirect from Cold booting)
    p. 188. ISBN 9780789730626. "Hardware Troubleshooting: Cold Booting Versus Warm Booting". Support. Microsoft. 7 July 2005. Archived from the original...
    16 KB (1,791 words) - 09:05, 18 November 2024
  • The booting process of Microsoft Windows varies between different releases. In Windows versions 1.01 to Windows 2.11, the system was loaded when WIN.COM...
    6 KB (634 words) - 22:44, 7 October 2024
  • NTLDR (redirect from Boot.ini)
    the main boot loader itself NTDETECT.COM, required for booting an NT-based OS, detects basic hardware information needed for successful boot An additional...
    26 KB (3,021 words) - 02:31, 19 May 2024
  • MBR code programs were created for booting PC DOS and MS-DOS, and similar boot code remains in wide use. These boot sectors expect the FDISK partition...
    100 KB (8,699 words) - 13:42, 14 October 2024
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    over with booting macOS from USB. Specialized USB-based booting was proposed by IBM in 2004 with Reincarnating PCs with Portable SoulPads and Boot Linux from...
    17 KB (1,968 words) - 10:42, 20 November 2024
  • Safe mode (redirect from Safe boot)
    poorly-configured software that prevents the operating system from successfully booting into its normal operating mode. Though it varies by operating system, safe...
    8 KB (980 words) - 01:47, 2 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for GUID Partition Table
    architecture, support booting from GPT partitions only on systems with EFI firmware, but FreeBSD and most Linux distributions can boot from GPT partitions...
    77 KB (2,966 words) - 12:23, 23 November 2024
  • third-party software. Boot Camp does not help users install Linux, and does not provide drivers for it. Most methods for dual-booting with Linux on Mac rely...
    28 KB (1,833 words) - 22:43, 7 November 2024
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    and thus USB booting on Intel-based Macs was for a time largely limited to macOS, which can easily be booted via EFI. Booting to non-Mac operating systems...
    22 KB (2,308 words) - 19:22, 4 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Boot sector
    the hard disk will no longer be bootable, unless used with a custom BIOS that defines a non-damaged sector as the boot sector. However, since the very...
    14 KB (1,717 words) - 20:47, 4 May 2024
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