Booting is the process of loading and executing bootstrap software by the computer during the boot process.

To allow system customizations, accessories, and other support software to be loaded automatically, the Atari's floppy drive was read for additional components during the boot process.

Often, multiple-stage boot loaders are used, during which several programs of increasing complexity load one after the other in a process of chain loading.

In current IBM mainframe systems, the boot process is known as Initial Program Load ( IPL ).

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When moving from one mode to the other the state of the machine is lost from memory, and requires a sometimes lengthy " boot " process to return the machine to the " on " state.

These included the ability to lock a process ( called a task under RSX ) into memory as part of system boot up and to assign a process a higher priority so that it would execute before any processes with a lower priority.

This is used to kick off the iSCSI remote boot process, using the booting network interface's MAC address to direct the computer to the correct iSCSI boot target.

Unusually, the Z80 CPU in the PCW 8256, 8512, 9512, 9256 and 9512 + had no directly connected ROM ( read-only memory, which most computers need to start the boot process ).

The purpose of a boot sector is to allow the boot process of a computer to load a program ( usually, but not necessarily, an operating system ) stored on the same storage device.

The problem was that the decision to use 24-bit or 32-bit addressing has to be made very early in the boot process, when the ROM routines initialized the Memory Manager to set up a basic Mac environment where NuBus ROMs and disk driver are loaded and executed.

Surprisingly, the first solution to this flaw was published by software utility company Connectix, whose 1991 product MODE32 reinitialized the Memory Manager and repeated early parts of the Mac boot process, allowing the system to boot into 32-bit mode and enabling the use of all the RAM in the machine.

The development process inextricably ties Hallam to the Pump in the minds of the people, vaulting him into an incredibly high position in public opinion and winning him power, position, and a Nobel Prize to boot.

More recent BIOSes permit the interruption of the final stage of the boot process by pressing a function key ( usually F11 ).

Swap setup is managed by the system boot process if there are entries in the " vfstab " file, but can also be managed manually through the use of the " swap " command.

There was also no boot lid, due to the need to retain as much structural integrity as possible, and access to the spare wheel and luggage compartment was achieved by tilting the seat-backs forward and reaching under the rear deck, a process likened to potholing by many owners, but which resulted in a large space available to store soft baggage.

Knoppix system console showing the boot process

A related process is coarticulation where one segment influences another to produce an allophonic variation, such as vowels acquiring the feature nasal before nasal consonants when the velum opens prematurely or becoming labialised as in " boot ".

The PC speaker is generally the first output device to be activated during the boot process.

The younger men, Vere, and Pembroke, who was also Edward's cousin and whose Lusignan blood gave him the swarthy complexion that caused Edward of Carnarvon's irreverent friend, Piers Gaveston, to nickname him `` Joseph the Jew '', were relatively new to the game of diplomacy, but Pontissara had been on missions to Rome before, and Hotham, a man of great learning, `` jocund in speech, agreeable to meet, of honest religion, and pleasing in the eyes of all '', and an archbishop to boot, was as reliable and experienced as Othon himself.

She was the John Harvey, one of those Atlantic sea-horses that had sailed to Bari to bring beans, bombs, and bullets to the U.S. Fifteenth Air Force, to Field Marshal Montgomery's Eighth Army then racing up the calf of the boot of Italy in that early December of 1943.

The bullet had in fact clipped a part of his popliteal artery and his boot was filling up with blood.

A third mode was entered with a special boot floppy which turned the Aster into a Videotex terminal with a 40x25 display and a Videotex character set, The software used the built in RS232 interface of the Aster to control a modem through which it could contact a Prestel service provider.

A software engineer was hired to write the special " dual boot mode " BIOS and the special CP / M BIOS.

The " dual boot mode " BIOS actually discovered whether a TRS-DOS, or Aster CP / M disk was placed in the drive, and would, depending on the type of disk, reorganise the internal memory architecture of the system, to either be 100 % TRS-80 compatible or optimally support CP / M, with as much " workspace " as possible, and the 80x25 video mode.

As the towns and cities of the Middle Ages began to grow, and the general populace was unable to read, signs that today would say cobbler, miller, tailor or blacksmith would use an image associated with their trade such as a boot, a suit, a hat, a clock, a diamond, a horse shoe, a candle or even a bag of flour.

Upon boot, the user was directed to a BASIC interpreter in immediate mode, not a traditional command line interface.

The name originated from the Basic Input Output System used in the CP / M operating system ( released in 1976 ), where the BIOS was loaded from disk, with only a small boot loader program stored in read-only memory.

The term BIOS ( Basic Input / Output System ) was invented by Gary Kildall and first appeared in the CP / M operating system in 1975, describing the machine-specific part of CP / M loaded during boot time that interfaces directly with the hardware ( a CP / M machine usually has only a simple boot loader in its ROM ).

He was soon given his nickname Caligula, meaning " little ( soldier's ) boot " in Latin, after the small boots he wore as part of his uniform.

ROM was used to store the boot code, which was then copied into core when the “ program load ” switch was flipped.

He was born and raised in Weston Favell, then a small village near the English town of Northampton in which Crick ’ s father and uncle ran the family ’ s boot and shoe factory.

The last pair, found incubating an egg, was killed there on 3 July 1844, on request from a merchant who wanted specimens, with Jón Brandsson and Sigurður Ísleifsson strangling the adults and Ketill Ketilsson smashing the egg with his boot.

On the Building Windows 8 blog, it was announced that a computer running Windows 8 can boot up much faster than Windows 7.

To mention a few of the memorable milestones on the road to the scudetto: a decisive win against Juventus ( 2 – 0 ), with a goal scored by Elkjær after having lost a boot in a tackle just outside the box, set the stage early in the championship ; an away win over Udinese ( 5 – 3 ) ended any speculation that the team was losing energy at the midway point ; three straight wins ( including a hard fought 1 – 0 victory against a strong AS Roma side ) served notice that the team had kept its polish and focus intact during their rival's final surge ; and a 1 – 1 draw in Bergamo against Atalanta secured the title with a game in hand.

The first ( boot ) hard disk drive was given the name C :; further drives, if present, were given the letters following.

A boot sector virus dubbed ( c ) Brain, it was created by the Farooq Alvi Brothers in Lahore, Pakistan, reportedly to deter piracy of the software they had written.

In her diary, Maria later described how the wounded, still living Emperor was taken to the palace: " His legs were crushed terribly and ripped open to the knee ; a bleeding mass, with half a boot on the right foot, and only the sole of the foot remaining on the left.

The United States acquired the southwestern boot heel of the state and southern Arizona below the Gila river in the mostly desert Gadsden Purchase of 1853, which was related to the construction by the US of a transcontinental railroad.

A UK-only version called " 968 Sport ", was offered in 1994 and 1995, and was essentially a Club Sport model ( and was produced on the same production line with similar chassis numbers ) with electric windows, electric release boot, central locking, cloth comfort seats ( different to both the standard and the Club Sport ).

The BIOS software is built into the PC, and is the first code run by a PC when powered on (' boot firmware ').

Canada's automobile industry, on the other hand, has been dominated by American firms from its inception, explaining why Canadians use the American spelling of tire ( hence, " Canadian Tire ") and American terminology for the parts of automobiles ( for example, truck instead of lorry, gasoline instead of petrol, trunk instead of boot ).

The boot knife is nothing more than a shortened dagger that is compact enough to be worn on the lower leg, usually by means of a sheath clipped or strapped to a boot or other footwear.

Other uses of Forth include the Open Firmware boot ROMs used by Apple, IBM, Sun, and OLPC XO-1 ; and the FICL-based first stage boot controller of the FreeBSD operating system.

Most often ridden with a " hard " plastic snowboard boot ( similar to a ski boot ), but also ridden recreationally with soft boots, particularly by riders in Europe.

It originated in the European Alps, and is characterized by fixed-heel bindings that attach at both the toe and the heel of the skier's boot.

" When Roger Blin asked him who or what Godot stood for, Beckett replied that it suggested itself to him by the slang word for boot in French, godillot, godasse because feet play such a prominent role in the play.

:* OS-9 keeps a " module directory ", a memory-resident list of all modules that are in memory either by having been loaded, or by having been found in ROM during an initial scan at boot time.

Upon a fresh boot, the command history was supposedly empty, but if the user typed a single space followed by a backspace, then hit CTRL-A, the names of the authors would be displayed: ' by K. Kaplan, L. Crane, R. Doggett '.

The only dramatic changes during this period were in form ; the rear-entry ski boot was common during the 1980s but became unpopular and disappeared by the early 1990s, and Salomon's introduction of the monocoque ski design led to widespread use of the " cap ski ", different only in that it was cheaper to produce.

The computer term boot is short for bootstrap or bootstrap load and derives from the phrase to pull oneself up by one's bootstraps.

Other systems may send hardware commands directly to peripheral devices or I / O controllers that cause an extremely simple input operation ( such as " read sector zero of the system device into memory starting at location 1000 ") to be carried out, effectively loading a small number of boot loader instructions into memory ; a completion signal from the I / O device may then be used to start execution of the instructions by the CPU.

Boot loaders may face peculiar constraints, especially in size ; for instance, on the IBM PC and compatibles, a boot sector should typically work in only 32 KB ( later relaxed to 64 KB ) of system memory and not use instructions not supported by the original 8088 / 8086 processors.