also spelled as boot loader or called bootstrap loader, is a computer program that is responsible for booting a computer and booting an operating system...

program it loads is called a second-stage boot loader. On many embedded CPUs, the CPU built-in boot ROM, sometimes called the zero-stage boot loader, can find...

directly booting the system using a (U)EFI operating system loader stored on any storage device. The default location for the operating system loader is...

(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)...

conjunction with each partition's volume boot record (VBR). This MBR code is usually referred to as a boot loader. The organization of the partition table...

NTLDR (abbreviation of NT loader) is the boot loader for all releases of Windows NT operating system from 1993 with the release of Windows NT 3.1 up until...

A "Hello, World!" program is usually a simple computer program that emits (or displays) to the screen (often the console) a message similar to "Hello,...

different partitions. The boot loader in or loaded by the MBR displays a menu of logical drives and loads the selected boot loader from the PBR of that drive...

system itself, as part of booting, a specialized boot loader is used. In many operating systems, the loader resides permanently in memory, though some operating...

(Linux Loader) is a bootloader for Linux and was the default boot loader for most Linux distributions.[when?] Unlike loadlin, it allowed booting Linux...

quite different. The UEFI (not legacy boot via CSM) does not rely on boot sectors, UEFI system loads the boot loader (EFI application file in USB disk or...

Das U-Boot (subtitled "the Universal Boot Loader" and often shortened to U-Boot; see History for more about the name) is an open-source boot loader used...

code of a boot loader. Although such a small space can be sufficient for very simple boot loaders, it is not big enough to contain a boot loader supporting...

individual boot loaders for each install of Windows, called the Windows Boot Loader. The Windows Boot Manager invokes winload.exe—the operating system boot loader—to...

Firmware Interface (UEFI). The boot loader automatically detected bootable images (including operating systems and other boot loaders), did not require a configuration...

a boot manager is known as chain loading. Some dual-boot systems, such as NTLDR (the boot loader for all releases of Microsoft's Windows NT-derived operating...

kernel from a file system. When used, the BIOS boot partition contains the second stage of the boot loader program, such as the GRUB 2; the first stage...

Master boot record (MBR). The intermediate stage loader (stage1.5, usually core.img) is loaded and executed by the stage1 loader. The second-stage loader (stage2...

of Microsoft Windows ME Loader (surname) Fast loader Speedloader Boot loader LOADER.COM (aka "NEWLDR"), a multi-boot loader shipping with various Digital...

system RAM in most setups. In x86 systems, typically the First Stage Boot Loader is an XIP program that is linked to run at the address at which the flash...

the boot flag set. Any other value is invalid. Its primary function is to indicate to a MS-DOS/MS Windows-type boot loader which partition to boot. In...

OVL/WIN200.OVL. In Windows 3.x and 95/98/ME, the boot loader phase is handled by MS-DOS. During the boot phase, CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT are executed...

BIOS boot interrupt, to preempt the BIOS boot loader and substitute their own boot loader. The boot loader on the option ROM would attempt to boot from...

a boot loader needs to be stored according to the standard ESP file hierarchy, or by providing a complete path of a boot loader to the system's boot manager...

determine the disk's capacity. 640 KB boot disks began with a miniature ADFS file system containing the boot loader, followed by a single FAT. Also, the...

hardware components (power-on self-test or POST for short), and loads a boot loader from a mass storage device which then initializes a kernel. In the...

/boot : Static files of the boot loader". FHS 2.3. 2004-01-29. Retrieved 2014-03-11. The operating system kernel must be located in either / or /boot....

term boot comes from the idea of lifting oneself by one's own bootstraps: the computer contains a tiny program (bootstrap loader) which will load and run...

chain loading increases the I/O load of an application. In operating system boot manager programs, chain loading is used to pass control from the boot manager...

is a portable boot loader and the reference implementation for the Limine boot protocol. Multiboot2, chainloading, and the Linux boot protocols are also...