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  2. UEFI - Wikipedia

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    When Secure Boot is enabled, it is initially placed in "setup" mode, which allows a public key known as the "platform key" (PK) to be written to the firmware. Once the key is written, Secure Boot enters "User" mode, where only UEFI drivers and OS boot loaders signed with the platform key can be loaded by the firmware.

  3. 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.

  4. Windows Boot Manager - Wikipedia

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    The Windows Boot Manager (BOOTMGR) is the bootloader provided by Microsoft for Windows NT versions starting with Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008.It is the first program launched by the BIOS or UEFI of the computer and is responsible for loading the rest of Windows. [1]

  5. Booting process of Linux - Wikipedia

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    If UEFI Secure Boot is supported, a "shim" or "Preloader" is often booted by the UEFI before the bootloader or EFI-stub-bearing kernel. [11] Even if UEFI Secure Boot is disabled this may be present and booted in case it is later enabled. It merely acts to add an extra signing key database providing keys for signature verification of subsequent ...

  6. GUID Partition Table - Wikipedia

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    Convert Windows Vista SP1+ or 7 x86_64 boot from BIOS-MBR mode to UEFI-GPT mode without Reinstall; Support for GPT (Partition scheme) and HDD greater than 2.19 TB in Microsoft Windows XP; Setting up a RAID volume in Linux with >2TB disks

  7. Does your Windows 11 PC keep restarting? Let's fix that ... - AOL

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    Here's what you need to do to boot in safe mode: Read On The Fox News App. Press the Windows Logo key and R at the same time. Type msconfig in the box. Press OK. Under Boot Options, click the Safe ...

  8. EasyBCD - Wikipedia

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    EasyBCD 2.3 introduced additional support for creating and managing entries for UEFI-based Windows entries in the boot menu. [2] As of June 20, 2011 with the release of EasyBCD 2.1, it is no longer free for use in commercial environments which require the purchase of a paid license, however it remains free for home and non-profit use without ...

  9. Option ROM - Wikipedia

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    The boot loader on the option ROM would attempt to boot from a disk, network, or other boot program source attached to or installed on the adapter card; if that boot attempt failed, it would pass control to the previous boot loader (to which INT 19h pointed before the option ROM hooked it), allowing the system to boot from another device as a ...