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Thanks for this. I had a generally good idea about this, but despite seeing the word for many years, never actually knew what POST stood for before this commen

Thanks for this. I had a generally good idea about this, but despite seeing the word for many years, never actually knew what POST stood for before this comment. I'm not even sure I knew that it was an acronym...

saghm 5y ago
Yeah, I always assumed it meant "post" as in "after", and it meant "after starting up" or something
ComputerGuru 5y ago
If you're interested in learning further, I wrote up everything in the "regular" (pre-UEFI) boot process here and have been told it's a very good crash course on how your PC boots up: https://neosmart.net/wiki/mbr-boot-process/ https://neosmart.net/wiki/mbr-boot-process/