Welcome to another article on the PC boot process! This article will complete the booting process from where we left it. In particular i am assuming that you are familiar with UEFI and GPT partition as explained in details in this post.
Continue reading “PC boot process – Kernel and Initramfs”PC boot process – Extra: TPM with Luks / Bitlocker
In this quick article I want to extend the previous article on booting process and discuss few missing technologies that can play some role in the startup process. Those are not strictly required to your PC to work, but you may are already using them for example if you enabled encryption. Continue reading “PC boot process – Extra: TPM with Luks / Bitlocker”
PC boot process – Compatibility mode and secure boot
This is the last article of the “PC booting process” series and i want to quickly present few missing concepts that you may incur related to this topic. Again, my task is not to make you an expert, but just to give you a good understanding on what is happening when you push your “on button” on your pc. So let’s start from where we left… Continue reading “PC boot process – Compatibility mode and secure boot”
PC boot process – UEFI with GPT
In the previous article, I presented the boot process of BIOS based system with MBR disk. Today we will move forward and we will see the changes introduced with UEFI and GPT disks. I also have another article in plan where I will discuss mixed versions, secure boot and TPM. Anyway.. Let’s continue from where we left. Continue reading “PC boot process – UEFI with GPT”
PC boot process – BIOS with MBR
Aahhh the PC boot process! This magic sequence that transform your pc from a useless piece of metal and plastic in a fastastic machine capable (in the right hands) of opening any door around the world! Have you have wondered how this happen? well in this article (and in the next one) I want to explain in details how the PC boot process works. In particular we will start from MBR (still used in some older system).. and in the next we will move to UEFI. Continue reading “PC boot process – BIOS with MBR”