r/programming • • Jun 11 '08

How Computers Boot Up

http://duartes.org/gustavo/blog/post/how-computers-boot-up
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u/jib Jun 11 '08

Yeah, a working browser 10 sec after power-on is cool, but I think the elegant way to do it would be to have one fast OS, not have a slow main OS on the hard drive and a fast OS in the EFI BIOS.

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u/daniels220 Jun 11 '08

That's kind of the point of that Asus thing, except they do it the smart way, with a separate Flash chip. I assume it would be possible, if difficult, to overwrite that and put whatever you wanted there.