I think your logic is faulty here. There were BIOSes with no ip stack for many years that could boot OSes that did have the ability to access the internet. Al

I think your logic is faulty here. There were BIOSes with no ip stack for many years that could boot OSes that did have the ability to access the internet. Also, it's possible to remove the ip stack from most UEFI implementations? Now, it does need a network stack if it's going to _boot_ the other OS from the network.