Modes for Booting the OS

A device has two basic modes of booting the operating system:

• Boot with a boot loader

  A boot loader is installed at the reset vector and it is launched when the device is turned on.

• Boot without a boot loader

  Only the OS image is installed and launched after the device starts.

See Also

Boot Loaders

Last updated on Wednesday, April 13, 2005

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