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Booting is the initial set of operations that a computer system performs when electrical power is switched on. The process begins when a computer that has been turned off is re-energized, and ends when the computer is ready to perform its normal operations.

Booting (also known as booting up) is the initial set of operations that a computer system performs when electrical power is switched on. The process begins when a computer that has been turned off is re-energized, and ends when the computer is ready to perform its normal operations. On modern general purpose computers, this can take tens of seconds and typically involves performing power-on self-test, locating and initializing peripheral devices, and then finding, loading and starting an operating system. Many computer systems also allow these operations to be initiated by a software command without cycling power, in what is known as a soft reboot, though some of the initial operations might be skipped on a soft reboot. A boot loader is a computer program that loads the main operating system or runtime environment for the computer after completion of self-tests.

The computer term boot is short for bootstrap or bootstrap load and derives from the phrase to pull oneself up by one's bootstraps. The usage calls attention to the paradox that a computer cannot run without first loading software but some software must run before any software can be loaded. Early computers used a variety of ad-hoc methods to get a fragment of software into memory to solve this problem. The invention of integrated circuit Read-only memory (ROM) of various types solved the paradox by allowing computers to be shipped with a start up program that could not be erased, but growth in the size of ROM has allowed ever more elaborate start up procedures to be implemented.

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server standard 2008 r2 unable to boot(blue screen error) after configuring raid 1

server standard 2008 r2 unable to boot(blue screen error- STOP: 0x0000007B (0xFFFFF880009A98E8, 0xFFFFFFFFC0000034, 0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000) after configuring raid 1 & Board Intel - x10DRL-I how to fix
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Intel server board boot menu

I have a intel board SE7520BD2 with AMIBIOS 2003 with a raid controller SRCZCRX and I need to boot it from my pen drive. As I have problems in the RAID disks it already booted once from my usb, but I need to boot it again and it always boot from…
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installing three operating systems on mirrored volume

I have 2 mirrored hard disks in my server(ASUS TS500-e4). Then I have created 3 partitions on mirrored volume and installed 2003 server on 1st partition and 2008 R2 on 2nd partition. Then I tried to install the 2012 server on 3rd partition. The…
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Windows Server 2012 64 bit is not working

I have Windows Server 2012 enterprise edition bootable disk. When I am restarting my system I am not getting an option of bootable disk. As I have already have Windows XP installed in my system so when I am trying to run the setup file from there it…
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Dual-boot EC2 instance

Can I modify an EC2 instance to support dual-/multi-boot (any 2 or more OSes)? If yes, how? If no, why not / what needs to change? Would this be easier on one of the other large IaaS platforms (Azure /GCP)? Before this gets shut down, I should…
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