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That is a simplistic view, but yes. Switching on the system starts the boot process. When the CPU powers up, it looks for the ROM BIOS, and looks for the interrupt vector table as a part of that. Then the CPU jumps to the startup address in memory. A POST test is performed and the hardware is initialized. From there, a routine tells it to check the first sector of the first drive it can find. If it isn't there, it may check the next drive it can find per the BIOS instructions. Then the boot sector is loaded which not only contains information about the drive, but a tiny program which then looks for and loads the operating system kernel. From there, the OS continues its own booting sequence and may replace the BIOS routines with its own routines and any installed drivers. Then eventually, the GUI portion of the OS is loaded.
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Summarize the booting process?
Booting is the act of switching on the computer and loading the operating system. This process is referred to as cold booting
What is cool booting?
regular shut down system is called cool booting.
What is cold booting?
it is switching when the p c is off
How do you describe booting?
sucessful startup of the computer system is called booting. It requires different files for booting like config.exe,etc.
What is the computer system start-up process called?
booting up POST, or Power On Self Test
What are the ways of booting?
Cold booting occurs when the electrical power (the switch button) on the system unit is turned and warm booting occurs when the computer system restart or reset without turning off the power.
What is loading the operating system into personal computer called?
booting
What is the answer for the definition to start the computer?
The process of starting a computer - from switching on, to being 'user ready' - is known as 'booting' or 'booting up'.
The process of loading an operating system into a computer's memory is called?
booting
To warm boot a computer means to?
Warm booting refers to when your computer is already on and you do a Restart to the system. This is also called soft booting.
When computer is turned on and the operating system is loading?
Generally it's called "booting up" the system
When the operating system is loading and the computer is on what is this called?
Most definitely, this is called booting. In the old days (of mainframes), it was called IPL (for Initial Program Load).
