In computing, booting is the process of starting a computer as initiated via hardware such as a button on the computer or by a software command. After...
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A Wellington boot, often shortened to welly, and also known as a gumboot, rubber boot, or rain boot, is a type of waterproof boot made of rubber. Originally...
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Das U-Boot (subtitled "the Universal Boot Loader" and often shortened to U-Boot; see History for more about the name) is an open-source boot loader used...
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Multi-booting is the act of installing multiple operating systems on a single computer, and being able to choose which one to boot. The term dual-booting refers...
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letter "C:". The active partition is the partition where the boot flag is set. DOS and Windows allow only one boot partition to be set with the boot flag...
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UEFI (redirect from Windows 8 secure boot)
Boot order selection menu on a Lenovo ThinkPad T470 with UEFI The UEFI implementation is usually stored on a NOR-based flash memory located on the mainboard...
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Boötes (/boʊˈoʊtiːz/ boh-OH-teez) is a constellation in the northern sky, located between 0° and +60° declination, and 13 and 16 hours of right ascension...
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Das Boot (German pronunciation: [das ˈboːt], The Boat) is a 1981 West German war film written and directed by Wolfgang Petersen, produced by Günter Rohrbach...
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Max Boot (born September 12, 1969) is a Russian-born naturalized American author, editorialist, lecturer, and military historian. He worked as a writer...
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Objective-C Code". apple.com. April 23, 2013. Archived from the original on December 24, 2013. Retrieved December 22, 2013. "Objective-C Boot Camp". Archived...
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Golden Boot from 1994 to 2001, the Barclaycard Golden Boot from 2002 to 2004, the Barclays Golden Boot from 2005 to 2016, the Cadbury Golden Boot from 2017...
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systemd-boot is a free and open-source boot manager created by obsoleting the gummiboot project and merging it into systemd in May 2015. gummiboot was...
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Boot Camp Clik is an American hip hop supergroup from Brooklyn, New York City, which is composed of Buckshot (of Black Moon), Smif-N-Wessun (Tek and Steele)...
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The boot ROM is a type of ROM that is used for booting a computer system. There are two types: a mask boot ROM that cannot be changed afterwards and a...
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The Saatse Boot (Estonian: Saatse saabas; Russian: Саатсеский сапог) is a boot-shaped area of Russian territory of 115 hectares (280 acres) that extends...
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Go-go boots are a low-heeled style of women's fashion boot first introduced in the mid-1960s. The original go-go boots, as defined by André Courrèges in...
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The system partition and the boot partition (also known as the system volume and the boot volume) are computing terms for disk partitions of a hard disk...
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Comparison of bootloaders (redirect from AiR-Boot)
https://github.com/u-boot/u-boot/commit/c51006130370b48b7eb5a93ada745385aa27f6bf http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/grub.git/tree/stage2/fsys_iso9660.c?h=grub-legacy...
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weather boot Desert Combat Boot Jackboot Modular Boot System Mountain Combat Boot Tanker boot Jungle boot Bovver boot "Building a Better Boot" – via Scribd...
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A saguaro boot is the hard shell of callus tissue, heavily impregnated with lignin, that a saguaro cactus (Carnegiea gigantea) creates to protect the wound...
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features, and can be invoked from some boot code in a straightforward manner – it is simple to execute. The C language statements and expressions typically...
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A master boot record (MBR) is a type of boot sector in the first block of partitioned computer mass storage devices like fixed disks or removable drives...
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The booting process of Android devices starts at the power-on of the SoC (system on a chip) and ends at the visibility of the home screen, or special modes...
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desert boot is a chukka boot with crepe rubber soles and, typically, suede uppers. Desert boots were popularized in the 1950s by UK shoe company C. & J...
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encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <!DOCTYPE foo [ <!ELEMENT foo ANY > <!ENTITY xxe SYSTEM "file:///c:/boot.ini" >]><foo>&xxe;</foo> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <...
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Boot Hill, or Boothill, is the generic name of many cemeteries, chiefly in the Western United States. During the 19th and early 20th century it was a common...
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Boot is both a Dutch and English metonymic occupational surname. In Dutch, boot (/ˈboːt/) sounds like and means boat and the name refers to a "boatman"...
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GNU GRUB (redirect from Grand Unified Boot Loader)
(short for GNU GRand Unified Bootloader, commonly referred to as GRUB) is a boot loader package from the GNU Project. GRUB is the reference implementation...
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Car boot sales or boot fairs are a form of market in which private individuals come together to sell household and garden goods. They are popular in the...
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Hunting the clean boot, also called clean boot hunting, is a term that has been used in the United Kingdom to refer to the use of packs of bloodhounds...
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