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  2. UEFI - Wikipedia

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    Boot order selection menu on a Lenovo ThinkPad T470 with both UEFI and BIOS support. The UEFI implementation is usually stored on NOR-based flash memory [2] [3] [4] located on the motherboard. Various I/O protocols can be used, SPI being the most common.

  3. BIOS - Wikipedia

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    Before the operating system's first graphical screen is displayed, input and output are typically handled through BIOS. A boot menu such as the textual menu of Windows, which allows users to choose an operating system to boot, to boot into the safe mode, or to use the last known good configuration, is displayed through BIOS and receives ...

  4. Option ROM - Wikipedia

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    The Video BIOS provides some basic display services for BIOS and operating systems, for example INT 10H (Legacy BIOS), VBE (Legacy BIOS) and UEFI GOP. The original IBM PC BIOS included integrated support for the IBM CGA and MDA video adapters (and did not support option ROMs at all), so those video cards had no option ROMs.

  5. MSI replacing BIOS with UEFI firmware interface ... - AOL

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    To develop and implement UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface). The specification replaces BIOS as the software interface between your computer's hardware and OS, doing away with several ...

  6. Booting - Wikipedia

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    Older, less common BIOS-bootable devices include floppy disk drives, Zip drives, and LS-120 drives. Typically, the system firmware (UEFI or BIOS) will allow the user to configure a boot order. If the boot order is set to "first, the DVD drive; second, the hard disk drive", then the firmware will try to boot from the DVD drive, and if this fails ...

  7. EFI system partition - Wikipedia

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    GRUB 2, elilo and systemd-boot serve as conventional, full-fledged standalone UEFI boot managers (a.k.a. bootloader managers) for Linux. Once loaded by a UEFI firmware, they can access and boot kernel images from all devices, partitions and file systems they support, without being limited to the EFI system partition.

  8. System Management BIOS - Wikipedia

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    Version 1 of the Desktop Management BIOS (DMIBIOS) specification was produced by Phoenix Technologies in or before 1996. [5] [6] Version 2.0 of the Desktop Management BIOS specification was released on March 6, 1996 by American Megatrends (AMI), Award Software, Dell, Intel, Phoenix Technologies, and SystemSoft Corporation. It introduced 16-bit ...

  9. Booting process of Linux - Wikipedia

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    rEFInd, a boot manager for UEFI systems. coreboot is a free implementation of the UEFI or BIOS and usually deployed with the system board, and field upgrades provided by the vendor if need be. Parts of coreboot becomes the systems BIOS and stays resident in memory after boot. Das U-Boot is a bootloader for embedded systems. It is used on ...