![]() #DARK BOOT DEFINITION COMPUTER PC#BIOS-style firmware is (mostly) only ever found on IBM PC compatible computers. Both BIOS and UEFI are types of firmware for computers. Terminologyįirst, let's get some terminology out of the way. What I mostly want to talk about is bootloading, because that's the bit of firmware that matters most to most people, and the bit news sites are always banging on about and wildly misunderstanding. If you think you know about UEFI, and you derived your knowledge anywhere other than the UEFI specifications, mjg59's blog or one of a few other vaguely reliable locations/people - Rod Smith, or Peter Jones, or Chris Murphy, or the documentation of the relatively few OSes whose developers actually know what the hell they're doing with UEFI - what you think you know is likely a toxic mix of misunderstandings, misconceptions, half-truths, propaganda and downright lies. Here is something important you should understand: 95% of it was probably garbage. You've probably read a lot of stuff on the internet about UEFI. If you don't have money, try asking your peers with more experience, nicely. If you're doing that kind of thing and you have money, join the UEFI Forum or ask your suppliers or check your reference implementation or whatever. If you're actually building an operating system or hardware or something, please don't rely on my simplified explanations or ask me for help I'm just an idiot on the internet. It is not a low-level fully detailed and 100% technically accurate explanation, and I'm not a professional firmware engineer or anything like that. IMPORTANT NOTE TO INDUSTRY FOLKS: This blog post is aimed at regular everyday folks it's intended to dispel a few common myths and help regular people understand UEFI a bit better. Always nice to know what's wrong with you. Kamil Paral kindly informs me I'm a chronic sufferer of Graphomania. It's AdamW Essay Time again! If you're looking for something short and snappy, look elsewhere. ![]()
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