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  2. SeaBIOS - Wikipedia

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    SeaBIOS as a Compatibility Support Module (CSM) for Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) and Open Virtual Machine Firmware (OVMF) Virtual machine host notification of paravirtualized guests which panic via the pvpanic driver; A patch exists to load the SLIC table from a licensed OEM Windows BIOS. [3] Trusted Platform Module

  3. Boot ROM - Wikipedia

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    When a system on a chip (SoC) enters suspend to RAM mode, in many cases, the processor is completely off while the RAM is put in self refresh mode. At resume, the boot ROM is executed again and many boot ROMs are able to detect that the SoC was in suspend to RAM and can resume by jumping directly to the kernel which then takes care of powering on again the peripherals which were off and ...

  4. QEMU - Wikipedia

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    QEMU has multiple operating modes: [7] User-mode emulation. In the user emulation mode, QEMU runs single Linux or Darwin/macOS programs that were compiled for a different instruction set. System calls are thunked for endianness and for 32/64-bit mismatches. Fast cross-compilation and cross-debugging are the main targets for user-mode emulation.

  5. UEFI - Wikipedia

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    Oracle Solaris 11.1 and later support UEFI boot for x86 systems with UEFI firmware version 2.1 or later. GRUB 2 is used as the boot loader on x86. [139] OpenBSD 5.9 [140] introduced UEFI boot support for 64-bit x86 systems using its own custom loader, OpenBSD 6.0 extended that support to include ARMv7. [141] illumos added basic UEFI support in ...

  6. Comparison of bootloaders - Wikipedia

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    Note: The column MBR (Master Boot Record) refers to whether or not the boot loader can be stored in the first sector of a mass storage device. The column VBR (Volume Boot Record) refers to the ability of the boot loader to be stored in the first sector of any partition on a mass storage device.

  7. System Management BIOS - Wikipedia

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    The UEFI Platform Initialization (PI) specification includes an SMBIOS protocol (EFI_SMBIOS_PROTOCOL) that allows components to submit SMBIOS structures for inclusion, and enables the producer to create the SMBIOS table for a platform. [20] Platform virtualization software can also generate SMBIOS tables for use inside VMs, for instance QEMU. [21]

  8. Booting process of Windows - Wikipedia

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    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.

  9. VirtualBox - Wikipedia

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    Support for Windows 11 guest: UEFI Secure Boot and emulation of TPM 1.2 and 2.0 chips ... QEMU qed and qcow disks; ... e.g. EFI boot for a Windows 7 guest is not ...