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The best BIOS would be no BIOS, just find a drive, check for a boot sector, then boot from it. Have an internal USB slot that always gets boot priority for
by akira2501 2y ago
The best BIOS would be no BIOS, just find a drive, check for a boot sector, then boot from it. Have an internal USB slot that always gets boot priority for service and for advanced use cases.
The point of personal computers is to make _personal_ computing easy. Everything else can just be an add on.
- tremon 2y ago> find a drive, check for a boot sector, then boot from it And how would you call the System code that does this? Would you want such a piece of code to be able to Output something to the screen in case it can't find such a boot sector? Should it be able to take user Input (e.g. in case multiple valid boot sectors are found)? These are quite Basic requirements for any early-boot phase.