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yumiusb.com /yumi-uefi / Universal USB Installer ( UUI ) is an open-source live Linux USB flash drive creation software. It allows users to create a bootable live USB flash drive using an ISO image from a supported Linux distribution , antivirus utility, system tool, or Microsoft Windows installer.
Ventoy can be installed on a USB flash drive, local disk, solid-state drive (SSD, NVMe), or SD card and it will directly boot from the selected .iso, .wim, .img, .vhd(x), or .efi file(s) added. Ventoy does not extract the image file(s) to the USB drive, but uses them directly, as it has the unzipping facility and does so during the installation.
In Windows NT, the booting process is initiated by NTLDR in versions before Vista and the Windows Boot Manager (BOOTMGR) in Vista and later. [4] The boot loader is responsible for accessing the file system on the boot drive, starting ntoskrnl.exe, and loading boot-time device drivers into memory.
UEFITool is a software program for reading and modifying EEPROM images with UEFI firmware. [1] It is written in C++ using the Qt library. [2] Features include the ability to view the flash regions and to extract and import them. [3] UEFITool allows the user to search for hex and text patterns. [4] UEFITool presents UEFI firmware images in a ...
On Apple Mac computers using Intel x86-64 processor architecture, the EFI system partition is initially left blank and unused for booting into macOS. [13] [14]However, the EFI system partition is used as a staging area for firmware updates [15] and for the Microsoft Windows bootloader for Mac computers configured to boot into a Windows partition using Boot Camp.
VirtualBox has implemented UEFI since 3.1, [152] but is limited to Unix/Linux operating systems and Windows 8 and later (does not work with Windows Vista x64 and Windows 7 x64). [153] [154] QEMU/KVM can be used with the Open Virtual Machine Firmware (OVMF) provided by TianoCore. [155]