In an article I wrote for EDN's sister site Design News — 5 Tips for Remotely Updating an Embedded System — I offered a few recommendations on how embedded system designers might go about designing in ...

Microcontrollers have proliferated into every nook and cranny of our daily lives from simple 8-bit devices that control our toaster ovens to powerful 32-bit DSPs that provide us with the rich media ...

The Intel Microcode Boot Loader creates a bootable USB flash drive that automatically applies the latest Intel microcodes to your identified CPU so that you are protected from the speculative ...

Unless your computer is pretty old, it probably uses UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) to boot. The idea is that a bootloader picks up files from an EFI partition and uses them to start ...

Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. Holding true to its promises, Asus has finally released a boot loader unlock utility for its EEPC ...

The modular Grand Unified Bootloader in version 2.x is still the boot method used by the installers of most Linux systems. Support for a number of file systems, EFI, secure boot and multiboot make ...

A boot sequence describes the initial set of operations performed by a device at the start of the boot process. During this stage, available resources reside in some form of local, nonvolatile storage ...

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It's loading crap into memory I don't need and it's not pure DOS, because Zone 66 keeps giving me pmode errors, indicating Windows is leaving part of itself around in the "DOS mode" option.<BR><BR>So, ...

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The release targets the Windows Recovery Environment and plays a major role in how systems recover from boot failures.