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  2. rEFInd - Wikipedia

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    GNU-EFI and TianoCore are supported as main development platforms for writing binary UEFI applications in C to launch right from the rEFInd GUI menu. Typical purposes of an EFI application are fixing boot problems and programmatically modifying settings within UEFI environment, which would otherwise be performed from within the BIOS of a personal computer (PC) without UEFI.

  3. BootX (Apple) - Wikipedia

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    Those Macintoshes include a ROM chip varying in sizes up to 4 megabytes (MB), [8] which contains both the computer code to boot the computer and to run the Mac OS operating system. The ROM-resident portion of the Mac OS is the Macintosh Toolbox and the boot-ROM part of that ROM was retroactively named Old World ROM upon the release of the New ...

  4. Boot Camp (software) - Wikipedia

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    Boot Camp 4.0 for Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard version 10.6.6 up to Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion version 10.8.2 only supported Windows 7. [3] However, with the release of Boot Camp 5.0 for Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion in version 10.8.3, only 64-bit versions of Windows 7 and Windows 8 are officially supported. [4] [5]

  5. Preboot Execution Environment - Wikipedia

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    Apple has come up with a very similar network boot approach under the umbrella of the Boot Server Discovery Protocol (BSDP) specification. BSDP v0.1 was initially published by Apple in August 1999 [9] and its last v1.0.8 was published in September 2010. [10] Mac OS X Server included a system tool called NetBoot. A NetBoot client uses BSDP to ...

  6. Booting - Wikipedia

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    When debugging a concurrent and distributed system of systems, a bootloop (also written boot loop or boot-loop) is a diagnostic condition of an erroneous state that occurs on computing devices; when those devices repeatedly fail to complete the booting process and restart before a boot sequence is finished, a restart might prevent a user from ...

  7. Ubuntu version history - Wikipedia

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    Ubuntu releases are also given code names, using an adjective and an animal with the same first letter – an alliteration, e.g., "Dapper Drake".With the exception of the first two releases, code names are in alphabetical order, and except for the first three releases, the first letters are sequential, allowing a quick determination of which release is newer.

  8. macOS Monterey - Wikipedia

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    Laptops unable to boot (fixed with 12.0.1 update) [21] [22] Inability to charge sleeping laptops with MagSafe (fixed with 12.1 update) [23] Mouse pointer memory leak issue (fixed with 12.1 update) [24] Audio issue with speaker and audio output crackling and popping [25] Problems connecting external displays to Mac using any version of Monterey [26]

  9. Booting process of Linux - Wikipedia

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    This booting method is less necessary nowadays, as Linux has drivers for a multitude of hardware devices, but it has seen some use in mobile devices. Another use case is when the Linux is located on a storage device which is not available to the BIOS for booting: DOS or Windows can load the appropriate drivers to make up for the BIOS limitation ...