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> Something has to start reach and load the UEFI written on a 'boot media' No. The UEFI stack lives entirely in flash, the same as BIOS did.
by mjg59 5y ago
> Something has to start reach and load the UEFI written on a 'boot media'
No. The UEFI stack lives entirely in flash, the same as BIOS did.
- WaitWaitWha 5y agoIn my experience, it may be on a detachable flash media, but it is not entirely in flash on the motherboard. That would be counter to 'expandability' concept of UEFI. I have never seen so much flash memory directly on the mobo to support UEFI.
- mjg59 5y agoCan you point at a machine like this? Literally every machine I've worked with has UEFI entirely implemented in motherboard flash.
- WaitWaitWha 5y agoI think we are talking (writing) past each other. What is the purpose of your EFI System Partition in your opinion? That is all I was referring to in the above notes.
- mjg59 5y agoIt contains bootloaders.