Booting and Firmware

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booting
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booting_process_of_Linux
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Firmware_and_booting

Bootimg Firmware

Types

• Porperitaty
• Open source
• Custom

Interfaces

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UEFI
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACPI

Implementations

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Megatrends

Bootloaders

Implementations

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_GRUB

Partition Layouts

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_boot_record
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Partition_Map

Partition

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EFI_system_partition
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BIOS_boot_partition
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki//boot/