On Tuesday 18 April 2023 12:47:44 am David Wright wrote: > > I have never seen a document that completely and accurately explains, > > in computer engineering and science terms, the design and > > implementation of the boot processes for Debian (or FreeBSD, or > > Windows, or macOS) for all the possible combinations of BIOS, UEFI, > > MBR, and GPT; including work-arounds such as "protective MBR", "BIOS > > Boot Partition", etc.. If anyone knows of such, please provide a > > citation. > > You might start with: > > https://www.rodsbooks.com/gdisk/whatsgpt.html >
Thanks for that... It's clarified some things that I've been wondering about. -- Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and ablest -- form of life in this section of space, a critter that can be killed but can't be tamed. --Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters" - Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James M Dakin
