| R. Grimes, "AT386 Protected Mode Bootstrap Loader," /sys/i386/boot/biosboot/README.MACH, October 1993, 2.1.5 FreeBSD. |
....disk by searching the disk search order defined in the CMOS. Once it finds a bootable disk, it loads the primary boot block into memory and passes control to it. The code contained in the boot block proceeds to load the operating system, or a secondary boot block depending on the operating system [19] [20] or boot loader [21] Ideally, the boot process would proceed in a series of levels with each level passing control to the next until the operating system kernel is running as modeled by Equation 1. Unfortunately, the IBM architecture uses a star like model which is shown in Figure 3. 4 ....
R. Grimes, "AT386 Protected Mode Bootstrap Loader," /sys/i386/boot/biosboot/README.MACH, October 1993, 2.1.5 FreeBSD.
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