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  2. 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 ...

  3. Legacy-free PC - Wikipedia

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    According to the 2001 edition of Microsoft's PC System Design Guide, a legacy-free PC must be able to boot from a USB device. [3] Removing older, usually bulkier ports and devices allows a legacy-free PC to be much more compact than earlier systems [4] and many fall into the nettop or all-in-one form factor.

  4. Instant-on - Wikipedia

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    Dell Computer Corporation announced on 13 August 2008 that they would support "instant on" in their Latitude line of laptops, leveraging "a dedicated low-voltage sub-processor and OS that can enable multi-day battery life and which provides "near-instant access to e-mail, calendar, attachments, contacts and the Web without booting into the ...

  5. BIOS - Wikipedia

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    The BIOS was hard-coded to boot from the first floppy drive, or, if that failed, the first hard disk. Access control in early AT-class machines was by a physical keylock switch (which was not hard to defeat if the computer case could be opened). Anyone who could switch on the computer could boot it. [citation needed]

  6. System Management Mode - Wikipedia

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    Emulate USB mouse/keyboard as PS/2 mouse/keyboard (often referred to as USB legacy support) [11] Centralize system configuration, such as on Toshiba and IBM/Lenovo notebook computers; Managing the Trusted Platform Module (TPM) [12] BIOS-specific hardware control programs, including USB hotswap and Thunderbolt hotswap in operating system runtime ...

  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. Windows XP editions - Wikipedia

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    XPe adds a USB boot option to Windows. An XPe embedded device can be configured to boot from a USB drive. CD boot An XPe device can be configured to boot from a CD-ROM. This allows the device to boot without the requirement of having a physical hard disk drive as well as provides a "fresh boot" every time the image is booted (a property ...

  9. BIOS boot partition - Wikipedia

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    The BIOS boot partition is a partition on a data storage device that GNU GRUB uses on legacy BIOS-based personal computers in order to boot an operating system, when the actual boot device contains a GUID Partition Table (GPT). Such a layout is sometimes referred to as BIOS/GPT boot.