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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 58. Chapters: Advanced power management, VESA BIOS Extensions, Wake-on-LAN, Boot monitor, Booting, GUID Partition Table, Master boot record, Extensible Firmware Interface, Phoenix Technologies, INT 13H, American Megatrends, Power-on self-test, Advanced Configuration and Power Interface, Logical block addressing, Splashtop, Extended boot record, Preboot Execution Environment, Coreboot, BIOS interrupt call, Cylinder-head-sector, Kickstart, Instant on, Open Firmware, OpenBIOS, BIOS parameter block, Tech ARP, Boot sector, Nonvolatile BIOS memory, Nvidia System Tools, MBRwizard, Option ROM, El Torito, INT 10H, Unified EFI Forum, System console, Flashrom, Insyde Software, Award Software, SeaBIOS, Volume boot record, Core Multiplexing Technology, BIOS Boot partition, Dynamic drive overlay, BIOS color attributes, Video BIOS, IBM Cassette BASIC, Mitch Bradley, Wake-on-ring, Extended System Configuration Data, Fake boot, XDK Debug BIOS, Platform Initialization Specification, E820, System Management BIOS, ISCSI Boot Firmware Table, Rapid Boot. Excerpt: In computing, booting (also known as booting up) is a bootstrapping process that starts operating systems when the user turns on a computer system. A boot sequence is the initial set of operations that the computer performs when power is switched on. The boot loader typically loads the main operating system for the computer. Beginning with the IBM 701 in the 1950s to the present, booting has been used to load operating systems into main memory of mainframe computers, mini computers, and personal computers. An exception is plug and play systems that execute directly from ROM, such as video game systems and computer printers. Numerous examples exist of single-stage booting and multi-stage booting that begin by execution of boot program(s) stored in BIOS or boot ROMs during which binary code of ...